Articles by Peter Jönsson

The director Jim Jarmusch [born 1953] has a long-standing relation to music, shown in different ways by his filmography, but Gimme Danger – The Story of The Stooges is his first film entirely built around […]

This Memphis garage gem from 1965/66 was produced by Roland Janes (1933–2013) – Sun Records’ legendary session guitarist between 1956 and 1963 – in his Sounds recording studio and originally released on the ARA label, […]

Never Get Away is one of the eleven well-kept together tracks on The Waldos’ only album Rent Party [Sympathy for the Record Industry, 1994; Jungle, 2013, enhanced CD] which sounds just like The Heartbreakers of […]

It was rewarding to revive the familiarity with The Cramps through Dick Porter’s book Journey to the Centre of the Cramps [Omnibus Press, 2015; review here]. Reading this book alerted a train of associations that […]

Bubbling under my 20 list – and also stressed by the great Raised on Records’ best of 2017 blog – is one of the finest recent Swedish albums. One-man garage band Råttanson’s Full-Scale Shakeability really […]

It looks like Dick Porter’s authorship focus became significantly clearer by working with his book The Ramones: The Complete Twisted History [2004]. After that sobering up, he continued to write books about interesting bands, like […]

With Eastside Bulldog (2016) the, in normal cases, well balanced and folkish oriented Todd Snider comes out, this time without hiding behind his wilder alter ego Elmo Buzz, whose name he used on the Spinal […]

Mike Stax’s multifaceted biography not only brings a story about the almost-a-star-musician Craig Smith, interesting as it is on its own merits, but it also tells about the fickleness of the music industry, how personal […]