Song Noir
I really became a character in my own story. I’d go out at night, get drunk, fall asleep underneath a… Read More »
Semi-Detached
‘The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached’ by Mark Doyle (expected 2018). Of all the great British rock bands of the 1960s,… Read More »
The Passenger
‘Iggy Pop: The Passenger’ by Stephen Barber (expected 2017-18) will take an original approach to the fifty-year anti-career in music… Read More »
Gypsy Music
The Roma have been regarded highly as musicians for centuries, but ‘gypsy’ music has changed over time. Indeed, as Alan… Read More »
Icelandic Pop
Icelandic Pop by Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen – a new title in the Reverb Series for 2015/16 – will examine the… Read More »
David Bowie in Berlin
A Foreign Affair: David Bowie in Berlin TOBIAS RÜTHER Crises are good for art – political as well as… Read More »
Magnetic North
Sting: From Northern Skies to Fields of Gold (forthcoming, 2017) By Paul Carr In the post-progressive rock era of the… Read More »
Gabriel’s World
Paul Hegarty is working on a volume for the Reverb series, provisionally titled Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen (forthcoming, 2017). The book will… Read More »
Dancefloors
Discothèque: The Revolutions of Dance Music Culture Katie Milestone & Simon Morrison (expected 2018) Discothèque will examine the historical and cultural transformations… Read More »
Kraftwerk and Germany
Sean Albiez’s Kraftwerk and Germany (expected 2018) will explore Kraftwerk’s complex relationship to their German national identity, and the ways in… Read More »