I didn't have as big a problem with this piece as a lot of people in here, but can imagine that it might read different in the context of the book (which is all about history and the idea of "getting it wrong").

I'm also a big Klosterman fan.

I need to dig it up and refresh, but he was recently on Open Mike Eagle's Secret Skin podcast and actually addressed the fact that he tends to stay in the rock music lane in his writing and specifically avoids hip hop. I don't want to totally misquote or misinterpret but I remember him acknowledging that it was slippery ground for a white guy to pick apart that music and that he essentially wanted no part in that.