I recently had the pleasure of chatting on camera with Kimberly Austin of the Rock Book Show about the new edition of Exit Music and Radiohead in general. You can check out her excellent questions and my rather prolix but generally articulate answers here.
My series of guest blog posts about Radiohead on the Hal Leonard website comes to an end with an examination of the song “Morning Mr. Magpie.” Two extremely different renditions here, separated by nearly 10 years. Check it out by clicking on this link.
This is an email I sent recently to an undergraduate student at a well-respected East Coast university who contacted me for suggestions about how to begin establishing himself as a music journalist. **************************** Dear ______________, Thanks for getting in touch, and sorry it’s taken me a while to respond. I’m not sure what suggestions I [...]
As promised last week, here’s a video that relates to my most recent blog post for the Hal Leonard website. In it, I unleash my inner music professor and get all technical about the rhythmic intricacies of Radiohead’s “Videotape.” Enjoy!
Part two of my guest blog for Hal Leonard is now online. This time, the Radiohead song getting the live compare-and-contrast treatment is “Videotape.” Go here to check it out. And please note that (aptly, given the song title) a video-only version of the blog—featuring yours truly on camera demonstrating a subtle but important aspect of [...]
The folks at Hal Leonard recently asked me to do a Radiohead-related guest blog for them in connection with the US reissue of my book. So I came up with a three-part piece. Each part discusses the evolution of a particular Radiohead song, examining the way it sounded both before and after the band brought [...]
The day has come! The new US edition of my book Exit Music: The Radiohead Story is out now, and thanks to my publisher, Hal Leonard, and the folks at Bookgasm, you can read the first chapter here: http://www.bookgasm.com/news/previews/preview-exit-music-the-radiohead-story/
Well, it only took 10 years, but my book Exit Music: The Radiohead Story is finally being republished in the United States. The publisher is Backbeat Books, and the official publication date is March 6, 2012. For those keeping score, this is the second U.S. edition of the book but the fourth edition overall. The [...]
Last month, as Jon Pareles astutely noted in the New York Times, the pop music world experienced a singular moment that can be seen either as a triumph of free expression or one more downward step in the ongoing coarsening of our culture. For the first time, no less than three of the songs on [...]
The memory never fades. There I am, standing off to the side of a crowded living room in a crowded house overlooking Buttonwood Park in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a bulky set of headphones over my ears. It is the evening of December 25, 1980, and my family has reached the final stop of its annual [...]
