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 […]
In 2017 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the book about Bomp! record label and magazine, told by Suzy Shaw, Mick Farren et al. A story like Bomp! – Saving the World One Record at […]
Zoë Howe: Barbed Wire Kisses – The Jesus and Mary Chain Story [Polygon, 2014] English music biographer Zoë Howe has for the last ten years, or so, been deeply engaged in passing on features of […]
Whilst busy at work contributing to Harvey Kubernik’s grand new 1967: A Complete Rock Music History of The Summer Of Love book, guess what sounds I kept my faithful Pig Player fully loaded at all […]
Miriam Linna and Randell Fuller: I Fought the Law – The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller [Kicks Books, 2014] If you not are already familiar with Miriam Linna and her work, you get […]
Joe Bonomo: Sweat – The Story of The Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band [Continuum, 2007] Joe Bonomo tells the inspiring and highly readable story of one of the most durable garage band of all time in […]
Peter Guralnick: Sam Phillips – The Man who invented Rock’n’Roll [Little Brown, 2015] Sam Phillips should be regarded as one of the most important persons in music history. He shaped popular music in the 1950s […]
– A 1970s memoir [Faber and Faber, 2010] The renowned English rock writer Nick Kent was one of the first music critics that was influenced by the gonzo journalism movement, which is a style of […]
In his book 1966 – this being the 50th anniversary of that year – Jon Savage claims that 1966 was a groundbreaking year. As in his previous books – England’s Dreaming (1991) about the history […]
No Slam Dancing; No Stage Diving; No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens – Amy Yates Wuelfing & Steven DiLodovico This is a self-published tome attempting to tell the tale of an […]
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