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Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Matthew Modine’s Full Metal Jacket Diary Audiobook

By Jim Hemphill | April 4, 2015

The actor's memoir about working on Kubrick's penultimate movie provides insight into the great director, Modine himself and '80s Hollywood life.

By Matthew Shipp | January 24, 2015

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."

By John Colpitts | November 15, 2014

A dedicated reader of music memoirs thinks George Clinton’s funk odyssey is a cut above.

By Colin Meloy | December 7, 2013

How to even begin? I mean, how?

By Randy Blythe | July 20, 2013

Due to my job as a professional musician, I'm quite used to being the focus of a photographer's lens. I have stood there staring, making the same...

By Jherek Bischoff | March 23, 2013

Recently I had the privilege of taking part in an evening of orchestral music presented at the Good Shepherd Center, a beautiful former chapel...

By Dean Wareham | March 16, 2013

In 1979, at age 16, I saw Richard Hell & the Voidoids at CBGB, the first rock show I ever paid for with my own money. I remember being in awe of...

By Ashok Kondabolu | March 9, 2013

The music of Pharrell Williams and the Neptunes was a huge part of the meaty “trying drugs and sex” part of my childhood. The main part of my teen...