Coincidentally, in tandem with Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando’s new memoir, Rumors of My Demise, I’m also reading David Lee Roth’s 1997 tell-all Biblio Files
Rumors of My Demise: A Memoir
by Evan Dando
October 24th, 2025 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Coincidentally, in tandem with Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando’s new memoir, Rumors of My Demise, I’m also reading David Lee Roth’s 1997 tell-all
Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats
by Audrey Golden
August 6th, 2025 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
For almost 50 years, The Raincoats have had something of a fragmentary existence: forming, disintegrating, and
Waiting for Britney Spears
by Jeff Weiss
June 9th, 2025 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
The primary conceit, and ephemeral joy, of Jeff Weiss’s freewheeling ode to a time in Hollywood when celebrities were simply “famous for being famous”
The Hard Stuff
by Wayne Kramer
January 11th, 2019 | by Nate Knaebel | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Let it be known: the Motor City really did burn. There really was revolution, dope, and fucking in the streets. And the MC5 really did kick out some jams. Delivering
Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History
by Tony Rettman
December 6th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Tony Rettman is an experienced documentarian of hardcore, the angry successor to punk rock that emerged in the ‘80s.
For the Sake of Heaviness
by Brian Slagel with Mark Eglinton
August 29th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
There are a few metal compilations that exist in deified air, usually for being ground zero of a particular scene. Witness Metal for
18 and Life on Skid Row
by Sebastian Bach
December 23rd, 2016 | by Josie Rubio | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Sebastian Bach is, first and foremost, an entertainer. Whether singing with Skid Row, playing Gil on Gilmore Girls, starring in reality TV shows like VH1’s
I Am Brian Wilson
by Brian Wilson with Ben Greenman
December 14th, 2016 | by Nate Knaebel | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Thanks in large part to the long-running touring version of the band led by Mike Love, the Beach Boys’ reputation as the musical
Cured
by Lol Tolhurst
November 28th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | 1 Comment »
Growing up in the ’80s, being a fan of The Cure meant marking yourself as an outsider. Even though by the time the band put out the stellar Head on the
On Bowie
by Rob Sheffield
September 6th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
When 2016 finally comes to an end, it will forever be remembered as a year marred by the deaths of some of our greatest artists. Alan Vega, Bernie Worrell