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The B Side

The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We LoveWhat's the difference between a B movie aficionado and a rabid music freak? Not much.

By Stephen Macaulay December 1, 2008
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Shine On You. . .

He Is. . .I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil DiamondThe subtitle of He Is. . .I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond might seem somewhat ironic, but there is so much schmaltzy prose going on that it is clear that the author never stopped loving Neil Diamond.

By Stephen Macaulay November 27, 2008
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The (formerly) Private Life of Kurt Cobain

According to Rolling Stone, Charles R. Cross was granted unprecedented access to Kurt Cobain's archives for a new book, Cobain Unseen, out now. "It was like a James Bond movie," Cross says of the high-tech Seattle bunker. "But once...

By Jake Brown October 20, 2008
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Liz Phair Reviews Dean Wareham

Liz Phair reviews Dean Wareham's memoir, Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance, for the New York Times. Apparently, the frontman of Galaxie 500 and Luna "portrays himself as a surprisingly unsympathetic character." Frontman: One of the things "Black Postcards"...

By Jake Brown April 7, 2008
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New John Lennon Photo Book

May Pang has released a collection of candid photos she took during the year and a half she spent with John Lennon during his infamous Lost Weekend. It's called Instamatic Karma, and the New York Times talked to her:...

By Jake Brown March 12, 2008
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Excerpt from the Oral History of the Replacements

Harp has an excerpt from All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History of the Replacements: Bob Stinson: It was '86 and we were doing "Saturday Night Live," staying at the Berkshire Hotel. I caused all the trouble on that...

By Jake Brown October 26, 2007
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Don't Be a Frigtard: Read This Book

Options: The Secret Life of Steve JobsoPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs by Fake Steve Jobs (Da Capo Press; $22.95) The funniest book in ages—and we're not counting ages in the life cycles of iPods.

By Stephen Macaulay October 25, 2007
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The Jam Unseen

If you like The Artic Monkeys, The Libertines, The Bravery, or even Spoon, then you can thank The Jam. Revered by anglophiles everywhere, Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton, and Rick Buckler spearheaded the second wave of Mod in Britain in...

By Derek Phillips September 25, 2007
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Download Libertines book chapter

The NME is giving away signed copies of The Libertines: Bound Together and they're allowing you to download Chapter 10: Reconciliation (PDF). It picks up the story when Prisoner LL5217 steps out of Wandsworth Prison to be met by one...

By Jake Brown September 20, 2007
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Laugh Laugh*

Louis Theroux - The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures Once this was all somewhat funny. And now it is not. Nor is Theroux.

By Stephen Macaulay February 28, 2007
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Bob Dylan: Blowin' in the Ether

Forever Young: Photographs of Bob DylanWhat's the difference between satellite radio and "Dancing With the Stars"? Who knows? We'd rather flip through a book of Dylan photos from 1964.

By Stephen Macaulay November 16, 2006
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Legends of the Rise: The Stones in '71

A Season in Hell With the Rolling StonesIn a new book about "the greatest rock and roll band in the world," author Robert Greenfield delves into the sex and drugs behind the recording of Exile on Main Street.

By Stephen Macaulay October 16, 2006
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Nick Drake: Bartleby the Musician

I saw it written and I saw it say...We've all seen the Jetta commercial, but how many of us know anything about the guy who wrote and sang the song? Glorious Noise reviews the new biography, Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake.

By Stephen Macaulay October 2, 2006
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Free e-Book about the Beatles' Revolver

Abracadabra: The Beatles: Revolver - A free, 103-page e-book telling the story of the Beatles 1966 album. Whenever I get a new Beatles book, I always skip straight to the Revolver section, so I'm looking forward to checking this out....

By Jake Brown July 31, 2006
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Albatross: The Eagles and the Power of Success

Take it to the limit one more timeAn "unauthorized" biography of the Eagles gets scrubbed clean after Warner Books buys out the original publisher. And Don Henley still tried to get it banned! In a new paperback edition, the author admits he was manipulated.

By Stephen Macaulay March 17, 2005
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Excerpt from the book "Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story"

Weezer: Out of the Garage - An excerpt from the book Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story....

By Jake Brown December 13, 2004
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Richard Can't Dance

Meltzer's an old bitch...Richard Meltzer used to be great back when he gave a shit. Fuckadoodle, now he's getting old. And bitching about it. Hope I die before I become an old bitch.

By Stephen Macaulay November 1, 2004
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Sad Song: Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing

He was defending Celine Dion all the time.A new biography of Elliott Smith is released to coincide with the anniversary of Smith's death and the release of his final album. Glorious Noise takes a look inside.

By Stephen Macaulay October 26, 2004
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Side Effect

Myself Among Others: A Life in Music"These men had given up most everything that life could offer in order to make their music." Glorious Noise looks at the autobiography of the founder of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals.

By Stephen Macaulay May 10, 2004
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Kill Your Idols

Kill Your Idols - "A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics." A collection of all negative reviews!...

By Jake Brown March 9, 2004
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