How to Build the Perfect ’90s Playlist on Amazon Music
Making mixtapes in the ’90s was an art form. Today, we’ve traded cassettes for streaming apps, but the rules of how to make a 1990s playlist remain.
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Why We Keep Coming Back: Reboots and Revivals That Actually Work
Some stories are too timeless to stay on the page. Every generation finds its own version of Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, or Lord of the Flies, and each retelling tends to reflect the world it’s born into.
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1990s Music Festivals: HFStival, H.O.R.D.E., and the DMB Era
The Soundtrack of a Generation If you were a teen in the ’90s, summer didn’t smell like sunscreen, it smelled like dust, fast food, and freshly printed concert T-shirts. Festivals like H.O.R.D.E., HFStival, Lollapalooza, and every Dave Matthews Band show within driving distance were rites of passage for a generation that measured time by mixtapes,…
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YA Paperbacks Every ’90s Teen Had in Their Backpack
Before BookTok or e-readers, there were backpacks stuffed with paperbacks, traded, borrowed, and loved until the spines cracked. Between math homework and mixtapes, my backpack always had at least one paperback tucked inside, worn at the corners, swapped with a friend, or borrowed from the library. This isn’t a definitive list or a ranking. It’s…
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What It Meant to Work at the Mall in the ’90s
Between 1992 and 1995, I spent more weekends than I can count folding tiny T-shirts at GapKids in Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Maryland. It wasn’t glamorous, but working at the mall was its own rite of passage: equal parts paycheck, hangout spot, and backstage pass to the social hub of the ’90s. The Mall as…
