like punk never happened
My debut entry over at This Ain’t The Summer Of Love — Like Punk Never Happened: Patti Smith and the Hall Of Fame. Enjoyed this post? Consider signing up for my monthly newsletter.
View Article33 1/3 madness
WOWEE. It’s kind of amusing how many people want to write about, say, Cheap Trick At Budokan. And kind of cliched that, out of all the albums in the Lou Reed canon, there are three proposals for Metal...
View Articleain’t it strange: patti smith on the hall of fame
‘Rock ’n’ roll drew me from my mother’s hand and led me to experience. In the end it was my neighbors who put everything in perspective. An approving nod from the old Italian woman who sells me pasta....
View Articleopening day 2007
…and I have a short story in Hobart’s April web issue, which is their annual baseball issue. (Serendipitously, and completely without plan, I am joined in this issue by my dear friend, the fabulous...
View Articlewhich side are you on?
I have a blog, and every day I’ve been writing up what happens on the picket lines. One of the things I never anticipated is how many non-WGA writers would be joining us. I like when they sign-in as...
View Articlethis is what a feminist music writer looks like.
I attended the Ellen Willis symposium this weekend, organized at NYU by friends and colleagues of mine, and in honor of the amazing anthology just released. Speaking as someone who hung on every word...
View Articlemy novel, B-Sides and Broken Hearts: out now
It is OFFICIAL LAUNCH DAY for B-sides and Broken Hearts. Formerly known as Joey Ramone Is Dead, this is my rock and roll novel, the book I always wanted to read. It is available in both paperback and...
View ArticleRock Scene
When I was a teenager, my father used to go into NYC for business on a fairly regular basis, and he would always be willing to stop into a record store or bring me a copy of the Village Voice, picked...
View ArticleHow Not To Write About Female Music Fans
ברוכים באים לחברים הישראליים == Michael Hann, in the Guardian, about Gaslight Anthem: The girls in the front row at the Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are gazing up at Brian Fallon, singing...
View ArticleVulture’s “All 314 Bruce Springsteen Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best”
Late last year, an editor I was working with at Vulture asked me if I was interested in taking on the assignment of ranking and rating all of Bruce Springsteen’s songs, similar to other major ranking...
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