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On the Record: Music journalists on their lives, craft, and careers

December 10, 2024

I had a feeling I was going to like this book – and the Almost Famous references were two of many immediate indicators. Right after the …

October 30, 2024

Rob Sheffield is the best. He is clever, funny, and loves music. I mean he LOVES music. “Music isn’t an accessory to a lifestyle – it’s part …

September 6, 2024

Ah cassette tapes. As a child born in the early 80s and raised in the 90s, mixtapes were everything. I spent so much time recording songs …

July 25, 2024

I love the original Twister – the 1996 disaster movie that barreled through theaters and brought The Wizard of Oz back into the pop culture …

June 19, 2024

After reading fiction for my last few books, I decided to delve back into nonfiction with The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the …

November 14, 2023

My review of this book is not totally fair because I picked it up knowing that I like Pearl Jam – I don’t love Pearl Jam. But author Steven …

October 20, 2023

From page one author Allison Larkin’s The People We Keep is a masterclass in showing rather than telling. Her delicately observant details …

August 29, 2023

Songs provide the soundtrack of our lives so of course reading the backstories of a selection of number one Billboard hits was something I …

June 21, 2023

Dawnie Walton knows how to make a literary entrance. The first sentence of the Editor’s Note that launches The Final Revival of Opal & …