120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era – a collection of short stories written with love for the darker side of music

posted Tuesday, April 8, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

120 Murders is an anthology of power chord crimes and keyboard horrors–the best noir and dark fantasy, and transgressive fiction from writers inspired by grunge, goth, ska, synthpop, and every electric sound of the alternative era. Whether thanks to an overnight college radio shift or cable pumping flickering videos into TVs across America, the music […]

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Yoko: A Biography – a look at her groundbreaking contribution to art, music, feminism, and activism

posted Tuesday, April 8, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Yoko: A Biography was nearly a half century in the making. In 1980, David Sheff met Yoko and John when Sheff conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John’s murder. In the aftermath of the killing, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on […]

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Man Parrish Stories – Volume One: Incredible Stories From A Remarkable Life – as told by NYC’s originator of EDM club anthems

posted Friday, April 4, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Man Parrish is a living legend in the music industry. You may not know his name right now, but you will never forget him after reading this book. As one of the founders of modern electronic music, he laid the foundations for electro, hip-hop, techno, and house music. His early tracks like “Hip-Hop Be Bop […]

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Love you Madly, Holly Woodlawn: A Walk on the Wild Side with Andy Warhol’s Most Fabulous Superstar

posted Tuesday, April 1, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Love you Madly, Holly Woodlawn: A Walk on the Wild Side is the story of a young, aspiring writer desperate for a break, and the legendary Andy Warhol superstar who gave him the story of a lifetime. By the mid-1980s, Holly Woodlawn, once lauded by George Cukor for her performance in the 1970 Warhol production and […]

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The Boyhood of Cain – coming of age novel about a boy, a classmate, and a teacher

posted Tuesday, March 25, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Boyhood of Cain is searing novel of love and betrayal as a young boy comes of age in the heart of England. In the shadow of an ancient abbey nestled between rivers, Daniel is growing up. He is highly intelligent but little understood by his parents, and a secret passion burns inside him for […]

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Song So Wild and Blue – intimate story that’s part memoir, biography, and homage to legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell

posted Tuesday, March 25, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Song So Wild and Blue is wonderful intimate account of how Joni Mitchell’s work has shaped author Paul Lisicky’s writing throughout his life. From the moment Lisicky heard Joni Mitchell while growing up in New Jersey, he recognized she was that rarity among musicians—a talent whose combination of introspection, liberation, and deep musicality set her […]

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Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac digs deep into the band’s songs, rivalries, successes, and failures

posted Saturday, March 22, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac is an illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac, the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures. The book evokes the band’s entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story. Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking career spanning over […]

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Saint of the Narrows Street is a decades-spanning Brooklyn family murder mystery

posted Tuesday, February 4, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Saint of the Narrows Street tells the story of a family stitched together by one violent, impulsive act. As the decades-long secret begins to unravel, one Italian American family will have to bear the consequences and face each other in this thrilling  drama, a southern Brooklyn tragic opera of the highest caliber. As a kid, […]

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The Secret Public – How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream

posted Tuesday, February 4, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Secret Public presents a monumental history of the queer influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979. Author Jon Savage explains how music has been the key medium through which homosexuality was expressed for much of the last half century. Depicting nothing less than the […]

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The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir – Edmund White’s lifetime of gay love and sex

posted Tuesday, January 28, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

85-year-old queer author Edmond White recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys of the 50s Midwest, with women as a young man trying to be straight, the sex he’s paid for and been paid for, sex during the Stonewall […]

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