book Archive
03 Dec 2013
Funny You Should Mention It: Howard Kaylan’s Shell Shocked (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: I’ve read a lot of Jeff Tamarkin‘s work, and I’ve had a long conversation with you. So one of the things that impressed me […]
02 Dec 2013
Funny You Should Mention It: Howard Kaylan’s Shell Shocked (Part One)
Autobiography or no, Howard Kaylan is an engaging, colorful character. His life story is full of highs and lows, but his highs and lows were set against the backdrop of […]
14 Nov 2013
Book Review: Beatles With an A
‘Tis the season for two things, at least: the annual holidays, and new Beatles-related products of note. Just this week, for example, the long-awaited (and delayed) release of the 2CD […]
22 Oct 2013
Album Review: Woody Guthrie — American Radical Patriot
Most Americans know the name Woody Guthrie. What they know of him beyond that – and/or their opinion on what he means to popular culture and music – varies widely. […]
14 Oct 2013
Book Review: Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker
If you’ve been living and paying any attention to the human condition, you understand that people are complicated. We’re inconsistent, unpredictable, messy creatures. And even if one focuses on the […]
20 Aug 2013
Book Review: Boys Don’t Lie: A History of Shoes
Sidestepping tired allusions to Boston‘s Tom Scholz, Guns’n’Roses and Chinese democracy, Boys Don’t Lie: A History of Shoes was a long time coming. Author Mary Donnelly began work on the […]
01 Jul 2013
Book Review: 400 Saturdays, An Anthology of Vinyl Folklore
It’s actually a great idea for a book. 400 Saturdays: An Anthology of Vinyl Folklore is described on its (exceedingly well-designed) cover thusly: “In the spirit of Studs Terkel‘s Working…an […]
27 Jun 2013
Album Review: Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra – For the Baby Doll
In and of itself, eclecticism is neither a good nor bad characteristic. Consistency may in fact be (as Ralph Waldo Emerson sorta-said) the hobgoblin of a little mind, but it […]
12 Jun 2013
Book Review: Louder Than Hell
For journalist-authors, there are myriad ways to tell a story. The easiest – and often most effective – is to write the story as narrative, and insert quotes from those […]
04 Mar 2013
Book Review: Vinyl Lives II
James Goss‘ 2010 book Vinyl Lives was built around a series of interviews the author conducted with owners of independent record stores around the country. Woven together, these individual stories […]