Note: Thank you to NetGalley, University of Minnesota Press, and Jonathan Cott for the advanced reader copy of the book. This review will also be posted on NetGalley. What follows is my unbiased […]
I remember reading Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography when it first came out. I don’t remember listening to the audiobook. It was in my library, though, and I decided I wanted to hear the stories with […]
I had high hopes for this DVD when I rented it. INXS was one of my favorite bands in the 1980’s, from the first moment that I caught a glimpse of their […]
A new post I’m going to try to do once a month is a post of some favorite songs of mine related to a specific topic. The result will be a playlist […]
Somewhere along the line, all the rock & roll stars I once listened to are getting old. Not that I’m getting old, it’s just that they are. Some have fought it every […]
Rock Band is a Spanish DVD available from Netflix. It features a variety of music videos from bands that were produced during the 1980s. While the selection of videos is decent, there […]
The most memorable concerts I’ve attended in my life have been Bruce Springsteen performances. Particularly when he is with his usual backup, The E Street Band, his marathon sessions have an energy […]
The arrival of MTV and the growing popularity of music videos in the early 1980s coincided with a second “British Invasion”. These artists grew out of the punk-rock movement and were generally […]
After reading John Taylor’s biography, I was motivated to seek out the older autobiography by Andy Talyor. People I talked to said Andy was more forthcoming about some of the conflict within […]
I’ve been a huge fan of the band Squeeze for about as long as I can remember, particularly lead singer and songwriter Glenn Tilbrook. Any time they came to New York, I […]
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