In a 1964 interview, Playboy asked Vladimir Nabokov about American sexual mores. Nabokov dismissed the question and said: "Sex as an institution, sex as a general notion, sex as a problem, sex as a platitude-all this is something I find too tedious for words. Let us skip sex." Couldn't the same be said about rock 'n' roll? Writing about music often feels akin to saying something interesting about sex; it's all so rooted in one's own neuroses that the subject is usually maddening to write and banal to read. Yet when Chuck Klosterman wrote that the Bob Dylan/Kiss collaboration meant that "rock 'n' roll reached [...]