


The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll
Mar 18, 2016 This book is the story of Sam Phillips, who created the conditions for rock ’n’ roll, though he never wrote or played on any records, and his quest to rattle the foundations of American music and a country's ideas about itself.2016 Southern California Journalism Award: First Place, Online Book/Cultural Critic

The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs
Aug 29, 2014 Author Greil Marcus doesn't explain these 10 songs (including one sung by Amy Winehouse, shown) or their power to thrill him; he tries to re-create in prose how it might have felt to perform them.Author Greil Marcus doesn't explain these 10 songs (including one sung by Amy Winehouse, above) or their power to thrill him; he tries to re-create in prose how it might have felt to perform them.
Fighting (for) the Right to Party
Jul 17, 2014 The conventional left wisdom that music functions primarily as an occasion for the liberated expression of “collective joy” is all washed up. The carnivalesque spectacles are dead ends, channeling what might find political expression into narrowly personalized exercises in adolescent subjectivity.
Graham Nash Still Really Gives a S#!*
Aug 5, 2012 The first time Graham Nash made me want to talk back to grown-ups was in the summer of 1977.