New Books Network Interviews
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I interview authors of contemporary and popular music books.
My interviewer page is here.
Mark Blake, “Dreams: The Songs and Stories of Fleetwood Mac” → September 6, 2024
George Musgrave, “The England No One Cares About: Lyrics from Suburbia” → August 10, 2024
Jim Higgins, “Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground” → July 30, 2024
Robyn Hitchcock, “1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left” → July 27, 2024
Ann Powers, “Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell” → June 24, 2024
Ryan White, “Springsteen: Album by Album” → May 31, 2024
Alyxandra Vesey, “Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century” → May 11, 2024
Marc Masters, “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape” → April 3, 2024
Micajah Henley, “The Clash’s Sandinista!” → March 14, 2024
Mark Guarino, “Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival” → February 5, 2024
Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay, "Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan" → January 7, 2024
Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, “Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music” → December 4, 2023
Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska'" → November 17, 2023
Scott Creney and Brigette Adair Herron, “The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town” → October 7, 2023
Kimberly Mack, “Living Colour’s Time’s Up” → September 19, 2023
Nicholas Tochka, “Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America” → August 14, 2023
Bill Perrine, “Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music in 1970s San Diego” → July 9, 2023
Michael Gray, “Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan - Vol. 1 Language & Tradition” → June 22, 2023
Robin James, “The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence” → June 7, 2023
John Klaess, “Breaks in the Air: The Birth of Rap Radio in New York City” → May 12, 2023
Annie Zaleski, “Lady Gaga: Applause” → April 30 2023
Jeremy Richey, “Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol“ → April 13, 2023
Hugh Hodges, “The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes” → March 16, 2023
Steven Hyden, “Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation” → February 6, 2023
Richard Aquila, “Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s” → January 18, 2023
Natasha Lasky, “Britney Spears’s Blackout” → December 11, 2022
Gregor Gall, “The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion” → November 18, 2022
John F. Lyons, “Joy and Fear: The Beatles, Chicago and the 1960s” → October 18, 2022
Stevie Van Zandt, “Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir” → September 20, 2022
Marissa R. Moss, “Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be” → September 7, 2022
Matti Friedman, “Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai” → August 30, 2022
Leah Kardos, “Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie” → August 1, 2022
Jessica Lipsky, "It Ain’t Retro: Daptone Records and the 21st-Century Soul Revolution" → July 5, 2022
Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" → June 3, 2022
Aaron Cohen, "Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power" → May 4, 2022