From sleepy Seaford, UK to punk rock’s ground zero, Pamela Rooke (aka Jordan) is a force to be reckoned with. She’s experienced a lifetime of gay underground clubs, worked in » Read More
BOOKS
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March 13, 2026
Journey to the Center of the Cramps is a revised version of Dick Porter’s previous band biography penned in 2007, just two years before Lux’s untimely and unexpected death stopped » Read More
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March 11, 2026
While Michael “Mickey” Bradley’s Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone was originally published in 2016, it’s been recently re-released, likely to coincide with the band’s 50th anniversary of Teenage » Read More
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October 27, 2025
This summer, I picked up a fun new hobby: Amigurumi, Japanese for the art of crocheting stuffed yarn animals, dolls, and other cute objects (ami = crocheted or knitted; nuigurumi » Read More
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August 20, 2025
Steely Dan, a group of musicians fronted by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, were a fixture on the radio in the 70’s and into the early 80’s. Their jazz-infused tunes » Read More
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November 22, 2024
Named after a key line from the title track of Neurotica, Redd Kross’s fourth studio album, Now You’re One of Us will draw you into the wacky world of Jeff » Read More
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October 6, 2024
Rebel Girl, Kathleen Hanna’s new autobiography, is a roller coaster of a story. Deeply personal, revolutionary, and entertaining at once, the book begins with a broken childhood and an abusive, » Read More
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September 13, 2024
After serving over 40 years in Manchester’s first punk rock band, it’s vocalist/guitarist Steve Diggle’s time to shine. In his new autobiography, Autonomy: Portrait of a Buzzcock, the last surviving » Read More
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March 27, 2024
Thurston Moore is a founding member of Sonic Youth, a band born in New York in 1981 that spent 30 years at the vanguard of alternative rock, influencing and inspiring such » Read More
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February 7, 2024
Mancunian Paul Hanley is an excellent choice of writer to author Sixteen Again, a book filled with close to 300 pages of interview snippets from the remaining members of Buzzcocks » Read More
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December 15, 2022
Prince: All the Songs, a newly-published masterwork by Benoît Clerc, is a must-have for any Prince fan’s collection. The beautifully-designed book clocks in at over 600 pages, includes gorgeous photography » Read More
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October 17, 2022
Grab yourself a copy of Paul Laird’s recent release, The Birth and Impact of Britpop, and prepare for a personal journey into the years of Britpop. Within this 224-page book » Read More
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July 14, 2022
Photographer/author Scott Kelby returns with a new guide for budding and intermediate-level photographers: The Travel Photography Book. For those familiar with his books (and he’s written over 100!), you’ll recognize » Read More
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February 28, 2022
Where were YOU in the 90’s? Off shopping for (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? and checking out shows by Blur, Oasis, Pulp and dozens more? Fellow Britpop lovers will want » Read More
