new book about the Village Voice The Freaks Came Out To Write, author Tricia Romano has a section about Christgau getting into hiphop and hiring writers to cover it.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 March 2024 16:17 (two months ago) link
This book seems really good to dip into.
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 March 2024 00:35 (two months ago) link
The oral history quote after quote approach of the Village Voice book sounds like it is one that one would want to dip in and dip out of .
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 16:58 (one month ago) link
Ha, yeah, although I did read PLEASE KILL ME straight through from front to back, in non-hopscotch order.
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:13 (one month ago) link
I'm around page 300. You could skip around--the chapters are very short and often self-contained--but I think you'd want to read it in order; there's a story there.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:22 (one month ago) link
Debating between buying Simon Reynolds Futuromania (I didn't finish Energy Flash, it started to feel like a collection of wiki summaries of people/events/music without exploring them) or Matthew Collin's Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain From Doctor Who to Acid House
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 May 2024 03:25 (one week ago) link