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Jeff Tweedy is finally home
I was anxious about talking to the Wilco frontman about his autobiography, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back). It shows!
Chris Stein’s heart of glass
The Blondie guitarist on music, photography, and the secret of the goat.
Let fury have the hour
Tim Mohr’s Burning Down the Haus unearths the unknown history of East Berlin’s punk rockers, and how they helped tear down that wall.
Infected by rock & roll
MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer documents his descent into his self-made hell and his reemergence into the world of the living.
For those who have already rocked
Rock is dead, they say. But Steven Hyden says, Long live rock!
For those about to Yacht Rock
Greg Prato—author of The Yacht Rock Book—presents his top 10 yacht rock album covers: a cavalcade of bare chests, feathered hair, and stylized ampersands.
Sticky Fingers
Author Joe Hagan on Rolling Stone magazine, Jan Wenner, and the dawn of the modern celebrity.
“It’s like rock & roll. You get it or you don’t.”
“And you can’t really explain it.” An interview with John Doe.
Rock & roll cage match
Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and venerable rock critic Robert Christgau face off in a battle of memoirs.
Hell hath some fury
I spent 10 minutes talking with punk icon Richard Hell about his book, Massive. Pissed. Love.
Punk rock girl
Viv Albertine dishes on the three themes of her killer memoir: Clothes, Music, and Boys.
Go forward. Move ahead.
DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh, delivering observations regarding the condition of man in the world these days.