Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that

This study connects the idiosyncratic modernism of Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist art movement, with works of several artists from the British art r

The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.

Massive anthology of essays and illustrations published in NOT BORED! between 1983 and 2010.

Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of “good” music—highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authent