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
Leticia Supple
The best advice I can give you at this point, though, is to trust your gut and be honest. Write your own opinion into the review, support every single statement with good reasoning, so your readers know exactly why you are making hat statement. And make sure that nothing you write is generic.
Leticia Supple, Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers

Leticia Supple
It is an opinion of mine - borne through long experience - that the best music writers are writers first. Hopefully they have an understanding of music, too, in any of its forms. It's bloody hard work to write about a time signatures when you have not a clue what a time signature is! ...more
Leticia Supple, Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers

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