book reviews
Reading Music: On Trying to Pay Attention to Paul Stanley’s Autobiography While the Country Falls Apart
Emily Nokes meant to write about the KISS member’s paperback months ago —then Trump happened.
Reading Music: The Exquisite Drama That Is Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters
Emily Nokes (Tacocat) delves into four hundred and ten pages of interviews spanning the entire career of one Fleetwood motherfucking Mac.
Reading Music: This Brats Autobiography is Kind of a Fucked-Up Fairytale
Andrew Matheson’s new book about his failed punk band is the anti-happily-ever-after.
Reading Music: Brian “Head” Welch’s (Korn) Newest Book is Heavy on the Mistakes, Light on the Miracles
No matter how spectacularly he fails, there’s always Jesus, standing there like a pushover mom, ready to forgive and forget and repeat.
Reading Music: I Finished Tom DeLonge’s 704-page, Dense-as-Fuck Alien Novel
Tacocat’s Bree McKenna wants to believe…in the former Blink-182 guitarist’s newest literary effort.
Reading Music: I Read John Popper’s Autobiography and Then Opened for Him at a Bernie Sanders Rally
Tacocat’s Bree McKenna reviews the Blue Traveler frontman’s new book.
Dan Wilson Talks John Seabrook’s The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
Wilson is a very successful hit pop songwriter who's worked with Adele and Taylor Swift. So why does this book about his craft fill him with despair?
Dale Eisinger (YVETTE) Talk’s Travis Barker’s Can I Say
Our writer feels kinship with Blink-182’s drummer, but the themes of desire, guilt and redemption in Travis Barker’s memoir will resonate with anyone.
John Colpitts (Kid Millions, Oneida, Man Forever) Talks Stephen Witt’s How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
The rise of the MP3 means that some wonderful things about making and listening to music are gone forever. A smart new book tells how we got there.
Kid Millions Talks Bill Kreutzmann’s Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead
Bill Kreutzmann's memoir is honest and revealing, if mostly for the already converted.
Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Matthew Modine’s Full Metal Jacket Diary Audiobook
The actor's memoir about working on Kubrick's penultimate movie provides insight into the great director, Modine himself and '80s Hollywood life.
Matthew Shipp Talks Herbie Hancock’s Memoir Possibilities, and Not Dying for Your Art
The tale of a tech geek with a thirst for fame, Herbie Hancock's new autobiography "might shed some light on why jazz is so fucked up nowadays."
