An interview with David S. Grant, author of Rock Stars: The Rise, Fall and Rise of 80's Glam Frontmen Into Pop Culture. A review of Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock'n'Roll Movies by Garry Mulholland. From rock to rubble: How Manchester lost its music. Devin McKinney reviews How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music by Elijah Wald. A review of Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing by Matthew David. A review of Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell: The Dangerous Glitter of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed by Dave Thompson. A review of Tupac Shakur: The Life and Times of an American Icon by Tyannah Lee McQuillar and Fred Johnson (and more). What could possibly be left to write about Paul McCartney, David Bowie and Led Zeppelin? Well that's just grate: Morgan Meis on the Grateful Dead's skull icon. The Lounge Lizard King: Malte Borgmann on the return of Christian Anders, the estranged kaiser of German popular music. A review of Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow by Karl Hagstrom Miller. Nina Power on the politics of the soundtrack: Was there a golden age of the film soundtrack? Let’s say you want to be the producer, writer, and, as it turns out, star of your own movie — and that movie is about trying to reunite the legendary, elusive rock band the Kinks. Jennifer Waits on technology and the soul of college radio. From Flavorwire, a look at 10 mediocre musicians partially redeemed by appearing on The Simpsons. A review of Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor. A review of Rush: Rock Music and the Middle Class by Chris McDonald.
