Spitboy, an all-female punk/hardcore band active in the first half of the 1990s, were far more groundbreaking than their short run as a band would seem to… Read more “A Review of The Spitboy Rule by Michelle Cruz Gonzalez”
Category: Music Books
A Review of Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting by Eilon Paz
Dust & Grooves, a website created and run by Eilon Paz, has been an online Shangri-la for record collectors for several years now, and Paz’s new book… Read more “A Review of Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting by Eilon Paz”
A Review of The Only Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper
Jessica Hopper feels music in her bones, in her blood, in the soles of her shoes and the tips of her fingers. This is one of the… Read more “A Review of The Only Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper”
Kill Yr. Idols: A Review of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band
One of the trademarks of legendary and influential rock band Sonic Youth during their nearly three decade run was alternative guitar tunings. The band’s various guitar players… Read more “Kill Yr. Idols: A Review of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band”
The Gender Retirement Home: Gender Failure by Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote
“When I retired from gender, it was because I came to the realization that the gender binary was what had been failing me all along. It’s hard… Read more “The Gender Retirement Home: Gender Failure by Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote”
Jennifer Knapp Is Facing the Music
In 1998 I was sixteen years old, even scrawnier than I am now, and very Christian. The world of Evangelicalism in the late 1990s was a unique and insular… Read more “Jennifer Knapp Is Facing the Music”
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