Fire and Rain is David Browne's attempt to bring music fans back to the the 1970s, when music was the center-point of anybody and everybody that mattered in society. He attempts to paint a picture…
Posts tagged Rock&Roll
Delivering noise & real tough boys
Reading Bob Mould’s autobiography, See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody, is a little like indulging someone you adore as they tell you about a dream they had about you last night….
Rapturous babbling about the beauty of Rat Girl
Christa once said, and I can never find the original post, that she was incapable of talking about Haruki Murakami’s writing without breaking into an interpretive dance. That’s kind of how I feel about Kristin…
My world was not rocked
I love rock & roll. I adore Michael Schaub. I love to read. So last month when he listed his five favorite rock & roll novels, I tossed up some heavy metal fingers and shouted…
Mad about Belinda Carlisle
I fell in love with Belinda Carlisle in the back of a clunky brown passenger van in the summer of 1987, my walkman spinning the cassette of her debut solo album, “Belinda.” On the cover,…
Love or murder? It’s a fine line when it comes to fanboys
Do you have that friend in your life who, depending on the day and your mood, you are either madly in love with or so annoyed by you want to shove him in front of…
Girls Who Rock
Laurie Lindeen (who answered MN Reads 6 questions last year) sets us up for a solid rock-n-roll road-trip in Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story. With its sassy pink cover, this memoir will…
Music memory lane
This is probably a pretty severe online faux pas — coming to a Web site invented by one of the more serious Replacements fans in the world to talk about a little book the band…
A Girl’s Guide to Rocking by Jessica Hopper
I bet a ton of lady musicians my age (early thirties) are wishing they had this DIY manual when they were fifteen or so. I know I do. There has been a gap in rock…
Hirsute lodestar, er I mean, The Rock Snob’s Dictionary
I have to admit The Rock Snob’s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Rockological Knowledge was probably not meant to be read from cover to cover like most books. Really, who sits down and reads the…
No cheesy, cheeky Nick Hornby dicklit here, I promise
Before I even get started, you should know that Arthur Phillips is going to be reading tonight (May 21st) at 7 p.m. (doors at 6:15) at the Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, 55401. He’ll…
An open plea to all rockstar/authors
This is my plea to all rockstars past, present, and future: If you ever write a book about rockstardom please, please, please, pretty please with cocaine and slutty groupies on top DO NOT spend pages…