LEONARD GRAVES PHILLIPS – THE DICKIES AND ME – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LEONARD GRAVES PHILLIPS CLEOPATRA RECORDS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Try to imagine, it is 1978, punk is at full force, and for the most part, a serious and angry [...]
TONY FLETCHER – POW! WHEN UK PUNK WENT POP 1980-84 TROUSER PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY LJUBINKO ZIVKOVIC The number of music books seems to be proliferating which at the same time means that there is quite some divergence in their quality. It can [...]
SEAN KELLY – BATTLE AXES: A HARD ROCKIN’ HISTORY OF POINTY GUITARS ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY JULIE CORRELL Rock ’n’ roll has never been particularly good at following the rules, and eventually its guitars stopped following them too. Pointy [...]
TIM SOMMER – DISPATCHES FROM THE KINGDOM OF OUTSIDERS: WRITING ON MUSIC, CULTURE AND MORE 1979-2025 TROUSER PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Tim Sommer has done pretty much everything in the music world. He was a writer for the Trouser [...]
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK AND RAINE MAIDA – I’M GOING TO BREAK YOUR HEART: A ROCK N ROLL LOVE STORY ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY I’m Going To Break Your Heart: A Rock N Roll Love Story is a fascinating and rather unique book. Chantal [...]
ADAM BERNARD – ONE HIT WONDERING: THE STORIES OF 40 ONE HIT WONDERS + OTHER TALES FROM THE CRATES INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW BY CHRIS X What if a musician’s greatest, most terrifying nightmare isn’t fading into absolute obscurity, [...]
BRAD TOLINSKI & CHRIS GILL – BLOW BY BLOW: THE JEFF BECK STORY DA CAPO BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS For his legendary status, Jeff Beck remains an understated and misunderstood tour de creative force among guitarist and popular music alike. [...]
TYLER SONNICHSEN – THE DEAD MILKMEN J-CARD PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY JOHN PORTER It’s hard to understand how one even begins to tell the story of The Dead Milkmen, being the incongruous fits even for the punk scene that they are, but credit to [...]
