Simon Reynolds, Soft Skull, $16.95 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-1-59376-286-5
In 2006's Rip It Up and Start Again, Reynolds examined bands, like The Talking Heads, Siouxie and the Banshees, and Devo, who performed in the wake of punk rock. Calling his new volume a companion to his earlier work, Reynolds compiles interviews...
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Simon Reynolds. Faber and Faber, $18 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-86547-994-4
Kids today are too besotted with every old thing—and a stagnant culture is the result, argues this lively though muddled manifesto. Rock critic Reynolds (Rip It Up and Start Again) visits retro impulses in fashion, architecture, movies, and painting,
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Simon Reynolds. Soft Skull, $15.95 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-1-59376-407-4
Reynolds (Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84) shakes up his landmark 1998 volume on rave culture (Generation Ecstasy) with an expanded and updated edition that promises much and does not disappoint. This pop culture narrative is hip,...
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Simon Reynold. Faber & Faber, $15.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-227980-4
Rock historian Reynolds (Rip It Up) explores the genre that first shaped his perceptions of pop: glam rock, or, as it’s sometimes known in the U.S., glitter. Reynolds takes a broad view of what glam encompasses, investigating its roots in soul,...
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Simon Reynolds, Author, Joy Press, With Harvard University Press $27.5 (432p) ISBN 978-0-674-80272-8
Attempting to focus on rock 'n' roll's underlying misogynies, freelance critics Reynolds and Press claim that two distinct male characters dominate the genre: the angry rebel and the sensitive mama's boy. They argue that the rebel image, exemplified
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Simon Reynolds, Author, Alastair Reynolds, Author Little Brown and Company $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-74111-8
""I finally grasped viscerally why the music was made the way it was; how certain tingly textures goosepimpled your skin and particular oscillator riffs triggered the E-rush.... Finally, I understood ecstasy as a sonic science. And it became even...
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Simon Reynolds, Author, Bill Albert, Author Serpent's Tail $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-85242-199-1
Prince, Nick Cave, Front 242, Throwing Muses, punk, acid house, soul--these are the names and trends that resonate throughout this collection of essays on pop music, written mostly for London's Melody Maker . Reynolds lets their vibration speak...
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