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posted Monday, September 23, 2024
Peter Crowley, the music curator of Max’s Kansas City, tells it like it is in his first volume of stories. A teenage runaway from Vermont who has seen it all from the West Village in the 1960s to the colour sound of California, and managing and booking bands during the punk explosion of the 1970s. […]
posted Monday, September 23, 2024
The White Washed Tombs tells the story of how vicious hate crimes are rocking the LGBTQ+ community in the capital of Accra, while prejudice and politics threaten to stymie PI Emma Djan’s investigation. Marcelo Tetteh, a twenty-seven-year-old LGBTQ+ activist, is butchered one night after being lured on a dating app to a deserted building site. […]
posted Tuesday, September 17, 2024
William and Jim Reid, brothers and founding members of The Jesus and Mary Chain—a band that bridged the gap between the punk explosion and the emergence of grunge and Britpop—chronicle the chaos, confusion, and stories behind their music. For five years after they’d swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim […]
posted Thursday, September 5, 2024
Author David Roddis is the founder of slowpainful.com, where since 2014, he has offered unabashedly progressive, outrageously funny political commentary and personal reflections. Culled from his blog, A Slow, Painful Death Would Be Too Good for You, was his first collection of personal essays. Now’s he’s back with his second collection, Sorry Looking for NOW LOL, […]
posted Thursday, August 29, 2024
Under A Rock is Chris Stein’s nothing-spared autobiography. It’s about the founding of the band, ascending to the heights of pop success, and the hazards of fortune. Debbie Harry defined iconic band Blondie’s look. Chris Stein—her performing partner, lover, and lifelong friend—was its architect and defined its sound. “Parallel Lines”, their third album, catapulted to […]
posted Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Anyone’s Ghost is an extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men during one unforgettable teenage summer in rural New England haunts them into adulthood. It took three car crashes to kill Jake. Theron David Alden is there for the first two: the summer they meet in rural New […]
posted Sunday, August 18, 2024
All Friends Are Necessary tells the story of Efren “Chino” Flores, who has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was an adored middle school biology teacher with a loving wife, and a child on the way—that is, until a stunning loss upended his life. […]
posted Thursday, August 15, 2024
Too Much Too Young is the definitive story of a label that for a brief, bright burning moment shaped British, American, and world culture. In 1979, 2 Tone Records exploded into the consciousness of music lovers in Britain, the US, and beyond, as albums by the Specials, the Selecter, Madness, the English Beat, and the Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a […]
posted Monday, August 12, 2024
Evenings and Weekends follows a vibrant multi-generational cast of characters through a London heatwave as their simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over a feverish, life-changing weekend. Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. […]
posted Thursday, July 18, 2024
Traveling: On The Path of Joni Mitchell is written by Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers, who explores the life and career of Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. This is not a standard account of the life and work of this fascinating individual, but […]
