Music Journalism


Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today
Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded
How to Write About Music: Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
Conversations with Greil Marcus (Literary Conversations Series)
Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated and Other Sweeping Statements About Pop
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Leticia Supple
It is in their works, their intelligence, and in the deployment of their art that makes critics great, not necessarily the formal training they undertake.
Leticia Supple, Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers

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