Anne Sheridan
The Quarrymen attempts an unusual experiment. It’s a music book about men who never were serious musicians – a rock history about men who never became rock stars – a footnote in pop history which stayed just that. Its ...
Phil Freeman
Our review of Paula West at the Plush Room Jazz vocal is an artistic pathway littered with potential pitfalls. If a singer doesn’t wander off into pointless, pretentious scatting a la Betty Carter, she ...
Anne Sheridan
25 year-old Asma Gull Hasan sets herself a daunting threefold task in American Muslims. Her book confronts and questions the dominant media image of Muslims as "fundamentalist" terrorists and/or women oppressors while it seeks to educate non-Muslims on Islamic ...
David Fear
Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 [Box Set] Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond [Box Set] In 1972, rock and roll was limping towards its nadir. The radical ambitions that ...
David Fear
"There ought to be more books about John Cassavettes", posits author Tom Charity at the outset of his own contribution to Cassavettian literature, John Cassavettes: Lifeworks. It's a rather odd way to start off a "critical biography" (Charity's words), ...
Phil Freeman
Every few years, some writer issues a flaming-arrow diatribe against some aspect or another of rock ’n’ roll. One of the great early ones was Jon Savage and Julie Burchill’s The Boy Looked At Johnny, simultaneously a justification for ...
Mark Jennett
Noel Coward is best remembered today for his plays - Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living among others. However, he was also a prolific composer of operetta (Bitter Sweet) and material for revues. A prolific songwriter who wrote ...
David Fear
When highbrow pundits, scholars and the thoroughly misguided AFI listmakers inevitably catalogue the "final word" on great American filmmakers, it wouldn't be surprising if Abel Ferrara's name was mistakenly left off the roster. The missing link between cinema's art ...
Anne Sheridan
Side Effect is in the tradition of scientifically or professionally realistic thrillers, a la Michael Crichton/John Grisham, this time set in the stressed out fast-paced world of pharmaceutical research. Sandra Feder has a background in research chemistry, allowing her ...
Dorcas Saunders
The Year of Jubilo, Howard Bahr's even-handed story of the year immediately following the end of the Civil War--before the full impact of reconstruction--is not only refreshing in the author’s resistance to continuing the fight between the North and ...
