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From 1974 to 1984, Trouser Press - once billed as "America's Only British Rock Magazine" but later called by some "the bible of alternative rock" - provided enthusiastic coverage of independently made and released music as well as artists from many genres: glam, punk, new wave, reggae, techno-pop, many of them early in their now-legendary careers.This anthology, edited and newly annotated by one of the magazine's co-founders, is an immersion in rock journalism of a form that is no longer widely practiced: features that go deep into artists' history and interviews that ask the impertinent questions, all written with wit, intelligence and a willful expression of opinions and values.In 446 pages, this large-format paperback collects more than 90 of the best articles - profiles, interviews and histories - that appeared in the magazine. Artists featured include Adam Ant, Syd Barrett, Black Flag, Ritchie Blackmore, Blondie, Kate Bush, Cheap Trick, Clash, Elvis Costello, the Cure, Devo, Brian Eno, Eurythmics, Bryan Ferry, Robert Fripp, Gang of Four, Genesis, the Go-Go's, Human League, Joan Jett, Joy Division, Kinks, Kiss, Nick Lowe, Malcolm McLaren, New York Dolls, Andrew Loog Oldham, Jimmy Page, Iggy Pop, Public Image Ltd., Ramones, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Residents, Todd Rundgren, Sex Pistols, Small Faces, Sparks, Television, Peter Tosh, T. Rex, U2, the Who, X, X-Ray Spex and Frank Zappa.

From the time he began recording with the Velvet Underground in the 1960s until his death in 2013, Lou Reed released nearly 50 original albums. In Sweet, Wild and Vicious, Jim Higgins delves into each one, with descriptions, details, analysis and appraisals that will amplify and expand fans' understanding and appreciation of them.This listener's guide is personal as well as definitive, a thoughtful consideration of Reed's entire career from the perspective of a devoted follower able to separate the highs from the lows.Greg Kot, Sound Opinions co-host: I didn't think we needed another book on Lou Reed or the Velvet Underground until I read Sweet, Wild and Vicious. A voracious listener and gifted writer, Jim Higgins contextualizes Reed's life and aesthetic in a way that illuminates the world he created between the headphones. His recordings - by turns brilliant, confounding and daring - finally get the book they deserve. It's nothing less than an essential addition to our understanding and appreciation of Reed/Velvets. Victor DeLorenzo, founding member of the Violent Femmes: I have been aware of and absolutely mystified by the glorious VU since I was 16 years old. Jim Higgins has written a book that celebrates this magical group of musicians and then proceeds to follow the many enigmas that is Lou Reed. (I had the pleasure to meet them all and record and play live with Moe and Sterling.) Jim presents a very good take on Lou, and I'm sure the audience that adores Mr. Reed will enjoy the way Jim listens and responds to the recordings.Elizabeth Nelson, singer-songwriter, the Paranoid Style: Replete with gimlet-eyed observations and a true fan's infectious enthusiasm, Jim Higgins' survey of Lou Reed's solo years is simultaneously a wild ride and a scholarly account of a complex and legendary canon. Two hundred and fifty-five pages of street hassles, dance crazes, and brilliant new sensations. Bold and essential. Tom Moon (author of the NY Times bestseller 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die): As fits his subject, Higgins engages at street level, weaving carefully researched details, sharp original descriptions of the music and reactions from artists (and tastemakers) into a thorough exploration of the sonic realms this icon visited - and then owned. Musician Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, the Baseball Project, solo): Jim Higgins does a heroic job of navigating the choppy and complicated waters of Lou Reed's recorded history, putting his spin on the good, the bad and the ugly contained in the grooves. Higgins takes no prisoners-you may not always agree with his take but he always makes a good, informative, thoughtful consideration and this book will make you want to go back and listen to the records one more time with fresh ears.Tammy Faye Starlite (singer, performer, Nico channeler): Jim Higgins gives such precise details about lyrics I love - "Heroin," "Street Hassle," "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim" - and while underlining the contradictions and complexities of Lou Reed's brilliance and persona(e), he accepts and embraces the totality of the artist with profound awe. I got chills reading about songs that, through Higgins's words. A must-have for Lou Reed fans.

Jim Sullivan - a 2023 inductee into the New England Music Hall of Fame - spent 26 years writing for the Boston Globe and two decades more writing for national publications. He has interviewed and reviewed countless musicians, many of them multiple times. The second volume of his music-writing anthology, Backstage & Beyond, focuses on artists who came to prominence in the 1970s and '80s: punk, new wave, post-punk and beyond. Eleven of them are already in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Chapters on: Ramones, Sex Pistols, Clash, Patti Smith, Buzzcocks, Damned, Fall, Joy Division / New Order, Cure, Stiff Little Fingers, Gang of Four, Pogues, Police, Cramps, David Byrne / Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg, Cars, English Beat, Morrissey, Pixies, Mission of Burma, Feelies, Puff Daddy, Spiritualized, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Swans and U2¿¿Praise for Backstage & Beyond:"I have spoken to many journalists in my time: some good, some bad, some terrible. And it is lovely when you meet someone who is just like you ... a huge music fan! Jim Sullivan ... is friendly, knowledgeable, forthright and opinionated! An expert in his chosen field. He is no pushover ... if you have faults or are resting on your laurels, he is the first to tell you off." -Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order)"There's a lot of history here, and a lot of reflecting on that history. For me, it's interesting to see the conflict many artists have as they try to evaluate their own work and its place in the scheme of things. Jim Sullivan has been able to coax some of those reflections out of a broad spectrum of artists, and it's fascinating to read." -Greg Hawkes (Cars)"Jim Sullivan is an expert interviewer with an uncanny ability to connect with his subjects. In Backstage & Beyond, he brings out the humanity in a host of rock and roll icons who are too often portrayed as godlike figures. This an intimate and revealing look at many of the major personalities of the classic rock era." -Tom Perrotta, author of Election, Tracy Flick Can't Win, The Leftovers and Mrs. Fletcher"These are wonderful stories across the whole range of popular music, by one of rock's finest journalists. As history lengthens and some of these legends move on, these become increasingly precious fragments of lives lived at the sharp edge of music." -Richard Thompson"Jim is one of those journalists that you feel comfortable with. No hidden agenda. If he likes your band, he says so. If he doesn't, same. He's always been kind about us. The thing is, unlike a lot of writers, if Jim said we did something that sucked, I would pay attention. That's why these writings are worth reading. He's the real deal." -Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers)"Having been on both ends of his many years of reviews and interviews with all manner of artists - as subject and reader - I am always drawn to his writing; because I know he won't have ambushed anyone or left them (us) feeling caught out, yet still end up with insight and history shared and some great stories." -Hugo Burnham (Gang of Four)"With a twinkle in his eye, Jim cuts through the business and, speaking from his heart, he gently gets you to do the same. You learn a great deal about an artist from a Jim Sullivan interview, including yourself!" -Dave Wakeling (English Beat)

Completing a trilogy that began with The Rhino Records Story (2013) and continued with My British Invasion (2017), this 40-year diary documents Harold Bronson's progress from student musician and journalist to label executive, where his fandom, wit and wildly creative imagination augmented and altered the course of many brilliant careers. Time Has Come Today contains accounts of significant events and meetings with noted hitmakers and reveals fascinating details that have never before been made public.¿¿Featuring close encounters with:The MonkeesPeter NooneThe TurtlesAC/DCArthur Lee and LoveGene SimmonsThe Bee GeesOzzy OsbourneJohn SebastianGeorge CarlinGeorge ClintonAndrew Loog OldhamHenny YoungmanElectric Light OrchestraNeil InnesMark LindsayPaul AnkaPeter AsherMickie MostBadfingerSpiritRod ArgentStephen BishopWally Amos...and many more

Jim Sullivan spent 26 years writing about music for the Boston Globe and two decades more writing for national publications. He has interviewed and reviewed countless musicians, many of them multiple times. Access to such A-list stars is hard to come by in the first place, but Sullivan got to know many of them well enough to engage them on a far more intimate level than journalists usually can or do.The first volume of his music-writing anthology focuses on artists who came to prominence in the 1950s and '60s. Twenty-one of them are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Rather than simply collect up previously published articles as they originally appeared, Sullivan combed through his archive to find everything he wrote about each artist and worked the pieces together into a more expansive time-passages view that chronicles their changing situations, outlooks and experiences. Backstage & Beyond Volume 1 includes fascinating, entertaining and occasionally hair-raising profiles of Jerry Lee Lewis, Ian Hunter & Mott the Hoople, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Nico, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music, Robert Fripp & King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Warren Zevon, Pete Townshend, Ray Davies & the Kinks, Dave Davies, Ginger Baker, Leonard Cohen, Marianne Faithfull, John Fogerty, Tina Turner, Neil Young, Richard Thompson, Darlene Love, Alice Cooper, Peter Wolf & the J. Geils Band, Joe Perry & Aerosmith, Lemmy & Motörhead, George Clinton, Tangerine Dream, Joan Baez, k.d lang and Roy Orbison.In the preface, Sullivan writes, "My hope is that the recollections contained here ... trigger some memories, bring you back to where you wanted to be - backstage and beyond, as it were. And if you weren't around then, I hope this transports you back to several golden ages of rock and roll."

From the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village to the stage of Woodstock, folksingers became a powerful cultural force in the 1960s, Mixing music and politics, tradition and innovation, romance and righteousness, these men and women were outspoken voices for their generation, each with a story to tell. The Bleecker Street Tapes -- a collection of intimate profiles and essays by veteran music journalist Bruce Pollock, a Village resident and clubgoer during its heyday -- documents folk music's evolution from passing the hat to topping the charts.Profiles include Dave Van RonkPhil OchsRichie HavensTuli KupferbergMelanieBuffy Sainte-MarieEric AndersenPeter, Paul & MaryRoger McGuinnJohn Sebastian¿Peter TorkMaria MuldaurLoudon Wainwright IIIJanis IanThe RochesHarry ChapinSuzanne VegaDon McLeanLeonard Cohen

Since first becoming a true believer in the power and importance of rock & roll as a boy in the 1950s, Art Fein has been immersed in music and the music business, taking on many diverse roles:Journalist: onetime music editor of Variety, contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, Billboard and other publicationsTV host: Art Fein's Poker Party, a talk-&-live-music public access cable show that ran for 24 years.Band manager: Blasters, CrampsRecord company staffer: Capitol, Elektra, CasablancaMusic Consultant for TV and film: Roadhouse 66, Tour of DutyAlbum Producer: L.A. RockabillyAuthor: The L.A. Musical History TourBlogger: Another Fein MessAnd: event promoter, photographer, record collector, and rock & roll historian.In the memoir Rock's in My Head, drawing on 10,000 (!) pages of a journal he began keeping in the early 1970s, Fein recounts such incredible rock & roll adventures as:A week spent working with John Lennon and Yoko OnoTouring the UK with rockabilly legend Ray CampiThrowing wild New Year's Eve parties for hundreds of revelers with cars as door prizesCooking up an ill-fated album with Ringo Starr ("Twenty-six years later, I was chatting with Ringo and mentioned the rockabilly album we'd planned. He said, 'Did I do the album? Did I stay at your house? I was so drunk in those days.'")In 1985, Fein did the one thing fans are always cautioned about: he befriended an idol, becoming part of legendary record producer Phil Spector's inner circle. That relationship--often gratifying, sometimes terrifying--lasted through Spector's murder conviction in 2009. Fein knows--and reports--startling and intimate details about Spector that have appeared nowhere else.

The second volume of veteran rock critic Ira Robbins' anthology-and-memoir Music in a Word trilogy compiles his extensive writing about nine artists: The Who, Cheap Trick, Ramones, Nirvana, Clash, Kinks, Elvis Costello, Keith Richards and the Replacements. This large-format paperback includes features, reviews and previously unpublished interviews as well as commentary and memories from a half-century of writing about popular music. Illustrated with images from the author's collection.