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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
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
oPtion$: 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
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
Once this was all somewhat funny. And now it is not. Nor is Theroux.
By Stephen Macaulay February 28, 2007
What'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
In 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
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
An "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
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
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
"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
Stephen Macaulay travels back in time to a world where bands and label owners cared about the music and thought $7.50 for a concert ticket was outrageous: a new CSNY book.
By Stephen Macaulay February 16, 2004
Keith Richards, the personification of rock and roll, has endured longer than anyone would have expected possible. Stephen Macaulay pulls the best quotes from a newly updated biography.
By Stephen Macaulay November 21, 2003
Chicago Sun-Times rock critic Jim DeRogatis releases a collection of his musings on the alternative '90s. Glorious Noise's Stephen Macaulay thinks Milk It! is a worthwhile read.
By Stephen Macaulay November 10, 2003
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