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The VERA Project, an all-ages volunteer-fueled music and arts venue in Seattle, will be offering two courses (6 classes each) in the Spring and Fall of 2015 on Writing About Music. The class is lead by Mark Baumgarten (author of the K Records book) and Chris Nelson (longtime music journalist) and our very own series […]

1988 was a crucial year for the Pixies. In March, their debut album Surfer Rosa was released by 4AD. A feedback-choked, noisy collection of songs that lyrically dealt with everything from high school gossip to prison confessionals to surrealist film references, the album was met with high praise from critics, and firmly put the band

In case you missed it, Simon Warner appeared on Spencer Leigh’s popular talk show On the Beat on BBC Radio Merseyside last Saturday. The pair discuss Warner’s new book Text, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture, the Beats, The Beatles, soccer, and much more. If you missed the program when it

In an unexpected twist of medium, Michael Stewart Foley, author of our upcoming book on the Dead Kennedy’s Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, has just debuted in his very first music video for Dutch “post-hardcore” band, John Coffey! In this parody of 1980s cable access, he plays a pompous yet clueless version of himself, and

Well before Gilmore Girls landed on Netflix this summer and launched a thousand think pieces it was a fond memory lodged in the brains of thousands of people like me ready to declare it the greatest show made. The fast and often made-fun of dialogue between the attractive mother and daughter duo was riddled with cultural

This Saturday (January 17th), Simon Warner of Text, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture will be a guest on Spencer Leigh’s music and talk show On the Beat on BBC Radio Merseyside. A journalist, lecturer, and broadcaster who also teaches Popular Music Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK, Simon

Last year, we posted the top ten bestsellers of 2014 but we thought you might like to know the ALL TIME greatest hits in the 33 1/3 series. Congratulations to Carl and Celine! #1 Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love by Carl Wilson (Volume 52). #2 Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Nick Attfield’s 33 1/3 on You’re Living All Over Me opens in 1991—or, more accurately, with Dave Markey’s 1992 documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke—and so should we. If you haven’t already, give yourself 97 minutes to watch what Variety called the “sloppiest rock-doc to win actual release” (and it is sloppy, in the best

Classic Album Sundays is kicking off the new year by celebrating Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea! The listening parties will be hosted in London, Brooklyn, and Oslo, at Brilliant Corners, Baby’s All Right, and Månen, respectively. Find out more here! And even if you can’t make it out to any of

For all you record collectors and vinyl nerds, we (at Bloomsbury) have recently published a fantastic new book on the analogue record by Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward, released in December in the UK, and out this February in the US. Recent years have seen not just a revival, but a rebirth of the analogue