Pop, Rock

Before #Me Too, before Riot Grrl, there was Lydia Lunch.   A central figure in the No Wave scene of the seventies—as founder of the seminal Teenage Jesus & The Jerks—Lunch has pursued a fourdeca …

‘When I first heard about this Faith No More biography, I didn’t know what to think. But I have to give credit where it is due, it’s a quality piece. The man has done his research and it shows. It pr …

Days before flying to New York City to ink a major-label deal that might have propelled his band Brainiac to stardom, front man Tim Taylor was killed in a car crash. But that’s only the beginning of …

‘Most of the time, ‘ Theodore Adorno has noted, ‘records are virtual photographs of their owners.’ The Annotated Mixtape is a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal history and …

“Mick is able to weave together what can only be referred to as the most complete and accurate portrait on the band ever published. Yes it is THAT good and that well researched! . . . Thorough resear …

Rock and roll-rebellious, individualistic, explosive-seems incongruent with modern Chinese society. Red Rock looks at the people and events that have created Chinese rock’s unique identity and tracks …

A new year for David Bowie means new clothes, new boots, new hair and a new name: Ziggy Stardust. To the gloomy blacked-out Britain of powercuts and three-day weeks he may as well be from outer space …

An oral history (with photographs) of the greatest American bar band of the twenty-first century. ‘Plenty of rock bands treat their fans like congregants. But, not many shine a light on the arrangeme …

Pat Gilbert’s definitive biography of the Clash – universally acclaimed as a great book – has already sold over 20, 000 copies in paperback. Now, for the 30th anniversary of the band’s classic London …

Wanda Jackson’s debut single, ‘You Can’t Have My Love, ‘ reached the Top 10 while she was still a sixteen-year-old high school student. She hit the road after graduation, playing package shows with C …