You Can’t Franchise Devotion: Inside Japan’s Jazz Kissa
Jazz kissa are often presented outside Japan as mysterious places governed by strict habits and an almost religious attitude towards sound. That image is not entirely false, but...
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‘Stranded in the Future’ by Robyn Hitchcock | A Surreal Journey Through 1968–78
Following up on his 2024 autobiography that covered the singular year of 1967, Robyn Hitchcock (73 years young at present) has now offered personal recollections from the next...
Rock and Role Book: Joe Banks on Peter Hammill, Van der Graaf Generator and the Art of Endless Questions
Joe Banks portrays Peter Hammill as an artist driven above all by questioning, someone for whom songwriting is a way of thinking aloud. Even at his most ambitious,...
Paul Sears An Interview on His Book, The Muffins & Beyond
Paul Sears avoids self-aggrandizement in his memoir Angels and Demons at Play. The book reads like a long improvisation shaped by sound, chance, and lived experience. Even its...
Keith West’s Moonrider Album Reissued by Think Like A Key
The 1970s album by Moonrider and the solo LP by John Weider are set to be re‑issued on CD by Think Like A Key Music on 12 December...
A Wandering Minstrel: Marion’s Intimate Memoir of Guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton and the Early Sound of Hawkwind
The late guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton, whose contributions were integral to the early sound of Hawkwind, is the subject of A Wandering Minstrel, a memoir authored by his long-time...
Failure to Fracture: Anthony Garone’s Long Obsession With King Crimson’s Most Impossible Song
Anthony Garone's Failure to Fracture is an exceptional chronicle of an equally exceptional undertaking: his two-decade quest to master King Crimson’s notoriously complex piece, Fracture. What began as...
Plugged In and Printed Out: Chet Weise on MAANTA RAAY and Third Man Books
MAANTA RAAY is an exciting new band that isn’t riding a retro psych wave or reviving garage fuzz clichés, but they're into something far stranger and more electric,...
Resonant Dissent: Excavating Slovenia’s Rock in Opposition
RIO: Rock v opoziciji is the first monograph to comprehensively document the Slovenian chapter of the Rock in Opposition (RIO) movement—an audacious, cross-disciplinary network that emerged in the...
An Interview with Jenell Kesler: Psychedelic Alchemist on Life, LSD, and the Stories That Rewire Reality – A Conversation with Mark Craig About The Alchemist Letters
Jenell Kesler is a name you won’t forget once you dive into her latest book, The Alchemist Letters & Other Chemical Romances. A nurse-turned-underground chemist who crafted some...