Billy Corgan Runs Into Clavicular, Teaches Him What Alternative Rock Is
Well, this is precisely the sort of cultural collision that makes the internet such a bewildering place. Billy Corgan meeting a 20-year-old streamer bloke and apparently feeling compelled to educate him on alternative rock is the kind of intergenerational moment that could go either brilliantly or spectacularly wrong, and we're genuinely curious which it was. For Cledvibes Radio listeners, it's a reminder that alternative rock still means something to the people who built it, even when they're encountering audiences in the most unexpected corners of the digital world. Sometimes the old guard still has lessons to teach, whether anyone's ready to listen or not.
From Stereogum: If you are unfamiliar with Clavicular, the 20-year-old manosphere-associated looksmaxxing streamer guy, just skip this post. Keep it moving. You're better off not knowing. I'm jealous of you, honestly. You lead a charmed existence. Don't blow it now. Clavicular has only been on Stereogum once before, for getting into a nightclub brawl during a Frost Children DJ set earlier this year. But now we're…