June 2009 Reading / Listening List

Reading
The Last Mad Surge Of Youth (pictured) by Mark Hodkinson
86'd by Dan Fante
Thongs by Alexander Trocchi
Appetite for Self-Destruction... by Steve Knopper
Selected Poems by Ted Hughes

Listening
Let The Dominoes Fall - Rancid
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Mariachi El Bronx - The Bronx
Best Of - Django Reinhart
Now For A Feast! - Pop Will Eat Itself
Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A.

Watching
the sky


















Here is an article I wrote for The Guardian about the infamous US 'Disco Sucks!' gathering / record smashing session of 1979.

And here is a somewhat indulgent recollection of the heady days of mid 90s Britpop, neatly disguised as a review for The Quietus.com of Common People, a new compilation album.