The 'Big 4' Bands of Boomer, Gen X + Millennial Dad Rock See which bands make up the "Big 4" of dad rock for three generations — Boomer, Gen X and millennial — and why they're our picks.

When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as "dad rock," Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad's glass shop in the Yukon Territory.