Authors: Nick Kuzmack
Shannon & the Clams: Shake Rattle & Roll
If curious fans are feeling impatient for a taste of the raw rock n’ roll sound that defines Shannon and the Clams, they can get a preview of what is sure to be a brilliant show by dropping the needle on the trio’s new record, Gone by the Dawn. It’s a perfect album that narrates the longing of heartache while still being something one can groove to. … read more
Review: Girl In A Band: A Memoir
Kim Gordon, co-founder of the post-punk band Sonic Youth, has written a remarkable memoir that is both as humbly conversational as it is candid about some of the more sensitive issues surrounding her remarkable life. … read more
Review: Censorship Now!!
Censorship Now, the latest book by Ian F. Svenonius—best known for his membership in the hardcore punk band, The Nation Of Ulysses. … read more
Review: Dust & Grooves: Adventures In Record Collecting
Perhaps one of the ultimate ways to celebrate record collecting—apart from buying more records—is Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting. … read more
Review: A Wailing Of A Town
I’ve got to hand it to A Wailing Of A Town for providing the excellent and essential, detailed oral history of San Pedro’s contribution to punk. … read more
Review: DEVO’s Freedom of Choice 33 1/3
This book details the significance of Freedom of Choice, the third album in Devo’s impressive catalogue and arguably their most notable. … read more
Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (33 1/3)
Michael Stewart Foley’s Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables casts Dead Kennedys as a product of the darkness and seemingly hopelessness of the late 1970s. … read more
Top 5 Sock Hop n’ Roll Albums
Your hair’s lookin’ slick, your boots are greased and you’re ready to crash the 1955 Vince Lombardi High Senior Prom. These sock hop n’ roll albums of 2015 will have your teenage kicks all night long. … read more
Review: I Need A Dodge! Joe Strummer On The Run
Nick Hall’s I Need A Dodge! is a brilliant tale that documents the largely unexplored period of Joe Strummer’s escape to Spain during the fall of The Clash. … read more
Review: Dreams To Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and The...
Mark Ribowsky weaves together a brilliant narrative that explores the rise of Otis Redding in conjunction with the essential establishment of Stax Records as a powerhouse that greatly influenced and made the ’60s Southern soul scene. … read more
Remembering Joe Hill: Songs of Agitation
As a songwriter, Joe Hill was the bard of the labor movement, and his death resulted in a long-lasting legacy of martyrdom within the labor movement. … read more
Night of the Living Dead Bod
Dead Bod capture a moment of punk history defined in L.A. between 1978 and 1983 and bring it back to light for the contemporary listener. It should not a surprise, then, that such a stunning delivery can only come from some of Salt Lake’s finest musicians. … read more
