Read Alan Betrock’s book Girl Groups – The Story of a Sound [Delilah, 1982]. A fascinating story about the creators of this sound, and the rise and decline of the way popular music was made […]
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 […]
I certainly tend to agree that, in the infamous words of no less an authority on all things Laurel Canyon, California as F. Zappa, most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who […]
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