↑ Upside

• Enduring indie rock scene at last gives 40-something, college-educated white men something to call their own
• City sounds pair surprisingly well with import car commercials
• Band T-shirts make it easy to spot the other cool parents
• Incredibly cute to watch aging music critics attempt to comprehend emerging hip-hop and electronic scenes
• Twenty five years of keeping Malkmus off the streets
• Quarterflash!

↓ Downside

• More things Seattle thinks it invented
• Seems like other cities’ musicians now have more tattoos than ours. What is going on?
• Limited potential for racy Behind the Music–style tell-alls, since everybody just ends up working in advertising
• Your folkie aunt’s Soundcloud release just hit 100 listens
• Everclear lyrics: dubious way to learn about gentrification
• Not so many summer jams