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(Gotham Books)   www.penguin.com     Danny Goldberg has the enviable knack of being in the right place at the right time. Wanting to break into the music industry, he answers a more...

(Faber & Faber)   www.fsgbooks.com   It's practically in the job description now that rock critics visit the music's southern birth cradles and return, Moses-like, with a book f more...

(Workman Publishing) www.workman.com/ Wish for a long life. That's the aftereffect of thumbing through and dipping into Tom Moon's 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die, the latest addition more...

British journalist Stevie Chick must've groaned when he got word that American journalist David Browne was publishing a biography of Sonic Youth. Not only would Browne's book be coming out shortl more...

(Faber and Faber)   www.us.macmillan.com/faberandfaber.aspx     Mike Edison has the kind of life people imagine journalists who cover pop culture enjoy; hanging with celebs, more...

(Harry Abrams)   www.hnabooks.com   Unlike recent books (I've reviewed) such as New York Noise: Art and Music from the New York Underground 1978-88 and No Wave, guitarist/Youth Moor more...

(Broadway Books)   www.broadwaybooks.com   Ask any somewhat-knowledgeable hipster with an ear for hip-hop their favorite song, and chances are they'll answer with "The Message," by more...

(Novello Festival Press)   www.novellopress.org   There's no denying that a lot of great music has come out of the South through the years: Memphis, gave us Stax soul and Elvis Pres more...

  (33 1/3)   www.33third.blogspot.com   Just about any aging hipster or backwards-gazing youngster with an interest in '70s-era underground culture is familiar with the British more...

(Black Dog + Soul Jazz)     Because I’ve slapped James Chance and/or his alter-ego James White; made William S. Burroughs laugh; hit on Lydia Lunch; and remember Tribeca’s A more...