Hilarious, entertaining, even suspenseful at times. It helps to be somewhere around 40+ (yes, I'm older than that), and have 80s (and some 90s) music mean something to you. Helps even more to be a music fan. But even without that, Sheffield's stories of "coming of age," and of his family, are ...
Read Rob Sheffield’s latest fanboy-obsessive music tome, “Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke.” Sheffield, together with Chuck Klosterman and Bill Simmons, are Generation X’s foremost chroniclers of pop culture. I’d rank Sheffield’s latest a notch or two below his previous ef...
This review’s content may be confusing, annoying, trite or downright laughable to persons not born between 1965 and 1978. Hell, it may be all of that and more to just about anyone. Consider yourself warned.Put your thinking caps on ‘cuz I’ve got some trippin’ down memory lane for you:Where were ...
It’s a tape full of soothing soul and vintage country and whispery rock and private jokes and intimate history. Some of the choices I didn’t like at the time, such as Aerosmith’s “Angel,” but they all flow together in my memory now. I think about this tape years later, when I’m interviewing Aeros...
There wasn’t much nuance to it. I was just going to drop by the radio station around ten, casually, you know, just to help Ally file her records. This was an obvious DJ-groupie move. But I had no problem with obvious. Time was tight. This was boy-say-go time. It was one of those times when, in th...