About the Author Craig Schuftan: "The '90s were a terrible disappointment at the time" If you're a person that likes to think about music; about the cultural and musical context your favourite album was conceived in, about the complexity of the artistic landscape that gave birth to post-punk and Britpop, about how Nirvana speaks the same language as William Wordsworth; people like Craig Schuftan are a godsend. This is a man who has had his finger on the pulse of art and music culture probably since he sat listening to grainy transmissions of the American Top 40 in the early 80s. Schuftan has presented triple j's art and culture program The Culture Club since 2001; guest-curated the Powerhouse Museum's The 80s Are Back exhibition in 2009; and, since 2007, has written three books on the complex intersections of artistic and cultural movements, explaining age-old mysteries like why your dad doesn't like rap music and how emos are epic poets at heart. His latest book, Entertain Us! The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the 90s , is an exploration of the landscape of 90s alt-rockers; what made them angry, what inspired them, and how they grew up. Where did Entertain Us! come from? Was it a natural progression from your retrospective look at the '80s and the '80s revival? Yeah, it was partly to do with that. I remember coming up with the idea for a book about the '90s because of my last book. There's quite a lot