Rock ‘n Read: Catch A Wave
I’ve been interested in Brian Wilson every since I snagged a copy of PET SOUNDS from my uncle in Tennessee about 10 years ago. I’d always been of the mind that The Beach Boys were the lame-American...
View ArticleRock ‘n Read: Some Girls (33 1/3)
I recently finished Cyrus Patell’s book on The Rolling Stones 1978 album SOME GIRLS. Patell’s book is part of the 33 1/3 series, which for those of you unfamiliar, are short little books written by...
View ArticleROCK ‘N READ: THE WRECKING CREW
Kent Hartman’s book The Wrecking Crew is one of those books I’d heard a lot about and had been meaning to read for a long time. Well, I finally got off my duff and read it, and I’m glad I did. The...
View ArticleROCK N’ READ: WAGING HEAVY PEACE
I just finished reading Neil Young’s 2012 autobiography Waging Heavy Peace and I’m feeling really conflicted. The best memoirs are the ones that feel like you’re sitting with the author listening to...
View ArticleROCK ‘N READ: LOVE AND OTHER B-SIDES
Romance and rock collide in novelist Lisa Peers’ Love and Other B-Sides. Call me lame, but I’ve always been a sucker for a good love story. Flavored with musical references and plot elements ripped...
View ArticleROCK N’ READ: The Rap Year Book
Earlier this summer I was in Barnes & Noble, haunting the Arts & Entertainment section. I was looking for a good book to read on the history of punk music, what I found instead was a really...
View ArticleRock N’ Read: Complicated Game Inside The Songs of XTC
‘I think it was the middle of 2000 when I was introduced to XTC via the band’s final swan song APPLE VENUS VOLUME 2 (WASP STAR). I remember being totally blown away by the band and eagerly devoured...
View ArticleROCK ‘N READ: Brighter Day: A Jellyfish Story
One of the most influential pop bands of the last thirty years, Jellyfish is one of those bands that barely registered a blip but has a massive cult following. I’ve been saying for years that someone...
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