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Bill Janovitz was born in New York in 1966 and has been located in the Boston area since 1982. Bill is a founding member of the band Buffalo Tom, who formed at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1986 and have released eight albums, plus various compilations and singles. He started writing about music for allmusic.com and his first book was called Exile on Main St., about the Rolling Stones album of the same name, published by Bloomsbury in 2005. In July 2013, St, Martin's Press published Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones, just in time for the band's 50th anniversary tour. Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History, the definitive biography of Russell, is being published March 14, 2023 by Hachette Books. Bill continues to record new music and perform live. BillJanovitz.com

Raised Joseph Alia Incagnoli, Jr. in working class Jeffries Point, East Boston, author Joe Harvard has lived in Asbury Park, NJ since 2001. As he was becoming an indie rock pioneer, Joe was also learning the craft of an Ivy-trained archaeologist, working briefly in the field before settling into a long career as a musician, producer-engineer, songwriter and promoter. His studies, work and travels brought him into close contact with the art and architecture of the ancient world, with an emphasis on the history and culture of the Islamic world. This influence can be heard in his music, and seen more clearly in his work as a visual artist.

VISUAL ARTIST

Creating mixed-media work evolved from a leisure activity in the late 80's to occupational therapy while recovering from an attack in 2008 to a full-time activity. In June, 2015 he began to pull all of these threads together, establishing a guerrilla, outdoor art gallery in a vacant lot for a one-day Asbury Underground event he was invited to curate. The gARTen @ 713 Cookman project persisted beyond the one-day event, and a year later opened to the public on weekends with the former community garden revived and the lot repurposed as a volunteer-run, outdoor black-light art gallery dedicated to "trash art" and found-object installations -- also known as "outsider art". From December 17, 2016 through January 15, 2017 Asbury Underground presented Joe's first gallery show with most of over 130 pieces of Day-glo, found-object art moving from the gARTen @ 713 Cookman to art629 Gallery. A catalogue of art629's "Beauty thru Radiation: the Black Light Art of Joe Harvard" show catalogue with 240 photos and descriptions of Joe's work is available for Kindle.

AUTHOR

Harvard honed his writing from 1996 through 2003 on his award-winning Boston Rock Storybook web site [defunct, perhaps it will one day be battered into publishable form] before authoring The Velvet Underground and Nico for Continuum editor David Barker’s 33-1/3 Series in 2004. Since then the book has seen four printings, as well as Japanese [P-vine / blues interaction] and Portuguese [Cobogo] editions. Joe appears in several books on indie and alternative rock, like Josh Frank’s excellent Pixies: Fool the World and video/film documentaries including Counting Backwards and The Velvet Underground, A Critical Analysis.

HIGHLIGHTS

Co-founder of Fort Apache Recording [1985], Helldorado Productions (originators of Music at the Middle East Restaurant, Cambridge) [1988] , NYC’s Tribal Soundz [1999], & Asbury’s Cranial Mass Productions [2008], winner of the WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Local Producer title [1989] and NYC’s prestigious Moth StorySLAM Championship [2001], his NJ accolades include Asbury Music Awards (AMA’s) for Top Americana Band [2009], Top Multi-Instrumentalist [2010] and Top Avant-Garde Act [2010]. Founder of Media Center @ Ballard [2013] in unused Church office to provide free music lessons, DIY production classes and instruments to youngsters in need. Founder of gARTen @ 713 Cookman [2015] in disused lot as volunteer-operated, outdoor "trash art" gallery. Opened gARTen to the public weekends, with full black-light capabilities [2016]. Critically acclaimed black-light show at art629 Gallery, Asbury Park [2016-17].

MUSIC TO HEAR

A self-reinvention in 2014 added visual art and transformed One Banned Man, Joe's foot-drums-and-guitar, acoustic one-man band, into the synths-and-samples "garage electronica" of Doctor Danger. The double LP "Hudgemabudge" [2016] is the most recent Doctor Danger LP, and can be found along with his entire musical output at Bandcamp.com/joeharvard.

Joe’s more traditional band recordings include a 2004 re-release of 1990's "Country Eastern", a meld of garage, alt-country and middle eastern sounds available at iTunes, CDBaby and other online vendors.

MUSICAL HISTORY

Joe’s list of session credits includes playing on LP’s with Dinosaur, Jr., Throwing Muses, the Pernice Brothers, and Grammy winning country artist James Otto, contributing any one of a host of instruments such as lap steel, timbura, tanbur, cumbus, bazouki, acoustic / electric guitar and bass. Joe has also contributed production and engineering for Treat Her Right, Morphine, Connells, Breeders, Tanya Donelly/Belly, Gwar, Neats, Turbines, Peter Halsapple & Syd Straw, Goober & the Peas, and Big Hunk O' Cheese among many others. Harvard’s 1985 – ’93 tenure as principal owner of Fort Apache was marked by countless pioneering indie and alternative releases, including the Pixies, Bosstones, Buffalo Tom, Lemonheads, Mission of Burma, Blake Babies/Julianna Hatfield, and numerous others. This is a good article on the Fort:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/07/how-bostons-fort-apache-studio-captured-the-sound-of-an-era/

In NJ Joe and Cranial Mass Productions partner Mallory Massara created Rock-N-Talk, a live music talk show which ran 13 monthly episodes. The 2-year, 113-show run of their Long Weekend Variety Show on Monday nights is now the stuff of Asbury Park legend, and along with Rock-N-Talk garnered an Asbury Music Award as Top Avant-garde Act [2010]. The show explored Andy Warhol’s idea of eliminating borders between audience and performer, and its popular Poetry Corner segment helped establish a local scene for spoken word backed by improvised musical backing.

Joe has provided musicianship for performances and/or recordings with prominent NJ songwriters such as Mark Prescott, Keith Monacchio, Rick Barry, Lauren Pennington, Geena, Greg Wilkens, Kenny “Stringbean” Sorensen and the Stalkers and the groups Agency, Keith Monacchio & the Dust-up Troubadours, and Last Perfect Thing. He continues to play regular live shows with Velveeta [the Velvet Underground tribute band], the Cockwalkers [Boston Garage at it’s best], and Dub Proof.

joeharvardnj@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/joeharvardartandmusic/

Steve Matteo is the author of Act Naturally: The Beatles On Film (Backbeat/Globe Pequot/Rowman and Littlefield), Let It Be (33 1/3/Bloomsbury) and Dylan (Union Square & Co.). He recently contributed to The Beatles in Context, which was published by Cambridge University Press. He is Contributing Editor with The Vinyl District and has written for such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, New York magazine, Time Out New York, Rolling Stone, Spin, Rock's Back Pages, Relix, Goldmine, Interview, Elle, Cinema Retro, Citizen Truth, Literary Hub and Salon. He has worked for Pete Townshend of the Who in various capacities for Left Field Services, Towser Tunes and Trinifold. His radio career includes working at WLIR-FM, WNYT and FM Odyssey and he often appears on radio, including on the Sirius XM Volume Channel, Q104, Joe Johnson's Beatle Brunch, Talk More Talk: A Solo Beatles Videocast, 21st Century Radio, WAAM, WFUV, WUSB, WPPB and WHPC and television in his capacity as a music journalist and an author. For nearly twenty years he worked in book publishing and public relations as a Publicity Manager for Barron's and Publicity Director for Finn Partners. He has lectured on Bob Dylan at the New School for Social Research in New York and journalism at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He holds a B.F.A. in Communication Arts from the New York Institute of Technology.

Jim Fusilli is the author of nine novels including “The Mayor of Polk Street” and its predecessor “Narrows Gate,” which George Pelecanos called “equal parts Ellroy, Puzo and Scorsese” and Mystery Scene magazine said “must be ranked among the half-dozen most memorable novels about the Mob.” The Narrows Gate setting is based loosely on Hoboken, New Jersey, where Jim was born.

Jim’s debut novel “Closing Time” was the last work of fiction set in New York City published prior to the 9/11 attacks. The following year, his “A Well-Known Secret” addressed the impact of 9/11 on the residents of lower Manhattan. Subsequent novels include “Tribeca Blues” and “Hard, Hard City,” which Mystery Ink magazine named its Novel of the Year. “Closing Time,” “A Well-Known Secret” and “Tribeca Blues” were reissued by Open Road Media in October 2018. Lawrence Block provided a new foreword for “Closing Time.”

Jim has published many short stories that have appeared in a variety of magazines as well as anthologies edited by Lee Child, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman and other masters of the mystery genre. He edited and contributed to the anthologies “The Chopin Manuscript” and “The Copper Bracelet.” His “Chellini’s Solution” was included in an edition of the Best American Mystery Stories and his “Digby, Attorney at Law” was nominated for the Edgar and Macavity awards. The novel “Narrows Gate” was nominated for a Macavity in the Best Historical Fiction category.

The former Rock & Pop Critic of The Wall Street Journal and an occasional contributor to National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” Jim is the author of two books of non-fiction, both related to popular music. “Pet Sounds” is his tribute to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys’ classic album. It was translated for a Japanese language edition by Haruki Murakami.

Combining his interests, Jim edited and contributed a chapter to “Crime Plus Music: Twenty Stories of Music-Themed Noir,” published in 2017.

His novel for young adults “Marley Z and the Bloodstained Violin” was published by Dutton Juvenile.

Jim is married to the former Diane Holuk, a global communications executive. They currently reside in Washington, D.C., where he's at work on a novel set during the Truman administration.

Nicholas Rombes is author of the novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Two Dollar Radio, October 2014) as well as Ramones from the acclaimed 33 1/3 series published by Bloomsbury. He is a contributing editor at Filmmaker Magazine and has written for The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Rumpus, n+1, and other places. He is a professor of English at the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan.

I am a writer, teacher, and scholar who lives in Northern California. When I'm abroad, I usually tell people I am from California rather than the United States. I'm not just trying to be clever, I actually identify that way. I was born in the Bay Area in June of the Summer of Love and currently reside in San Francisco, where my settler ancestor I. C. C. Russ disembarked with his family from the Loo Choo in the fortuitous year of 1847. My roots lie in this rootless place.

That said, I spent a good ten years on the east coast, first at Yale and then in the freelance writer trenches of New York City, where I wrote tons about music, philosophy, fringe culture, \ media and technology. In 2010 I returned to university to get a PhD in all this weirdness, a degree in Religion that led to my book High Weirdness. My essays have appeared in a couple dozen books, I have spoken all over the world, and my writings have been translated into a dozen languages.

My first novel is "The Kept Girl," a novel of 1929 Los Angeles featuring the young Raymond Chandler, his devoted secretary and the real-life cop who is a likely model for Philip Marlowe (http://www.thekeptgirl.com). You'll find me hosting true crime, history and architecture tours and webinars at (http://www.esotouric.com) and our newsletter is (https://esotouric.substack.com). Other recent publications are "The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles," a collaboration with illustrator Paul Rogers, “Cults!”, Haunts and Havens of Charles Bukowski" and "How To Find Old Los Angeles." Close to my heart is Barbara "Cutie" Cooper's memoir, "Fall in Love For Life: Inspiration from a 73-year Marriage" (Chronicle), which emerged from the viral sensation that was my grandparents' video blog, The OGs (http://www.the-ogs.com). I wrote an oral history about "Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In The Aeroplane Over the Sea'" (Continuum 33 1/3), co-edited the anthologies "Lost in the Grooves" and "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth," and for many years published Scram, a journal of unpopular culture (back issues at http://www.scrammagazine.com). I took a break from music writing to create the time travel blogs 1947project, On Bunker Hill and In SRO Land, which offer alternate histories of early Los Angeles, and which opened up a new world of creative possibility. Now, with my husband Richard Schave I lead curious souls on Esotouric's offbeat sightseeing tours and webinars into the secret heart of Los Angeles (The Real Black Dahlia, Raymond Chandler's LA, Charles Bukowski's LA, Blood & Dumplings, East Side Babylon) and produce the podcast You Can't Eat the Sunshine, which one fan described as "Huell Howser on steroids." My campaign to save the historic 76 Balls from destruction resulted in ConocoPhillips agreeing to donate the gas station signs to museums nationwide.

Miles Marshall Lewis is a recognized pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist, with a B.A. degree in sociology from Morehouse College. He is the author of the essay collection Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don't Have Bruises, concerning coming of age in the Bronx under the aegis of hip-hop culture at its genesis. He is also the series editor and founder of Bronx Biannual, an urbane urban literary journal of fiction and essays, and author of There's a Riot Goin' On, a book on the making of the seminal 1971 Sly and the Family Stone album of the same name.

During the past 20 years, he has written for GQ, The New York Times, Ebony, NPR, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Believer, Essence, and many other publications. He served as the digital arts and culture editor of Ebony, music editor of Vibe, deputy editor of XXL, literary editor of Russell Simmons's Oneworld, deputy editor of BET.com, and a contributing writer for The Source during the 1990s. His interview with the late Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson is anthologized in The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers alongside Joan Didion, Zadie Smith and Dave Eggers, and his fiction has been published in Bronx Noir, Wanderlust, Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract, Oneworld, Rap Pages, and Uptown.

Follow MML all over social media @MMLunlimited, and www.MMLunlimited.com.

Dan LeRoy is an author, journalist and teacher who has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Village Voice, Alternative Press, Esquire.com and National Review Online. Mr. LeRoy is certainly the only person in history to have contributed to publications founded by William F. Buckley, Jr. and by Gene Simmons of KISS. Meanwhile, his speculative fiction has appeared in several anthologies, and on the No Sleep podcast.

His books include a volume for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series about the Beastie Boys classic Paul's Boutique; The Greatest Music Never Sold; For Whom the Cowbell Tolls; and Liberty's Lions: The Catholic Revolutionaries Who Established America. His latest book, Dancing to the Drum Machine: How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World, was published by Bloomsbury in November 2022.

Since 2006, Mr. LeRoy has been the director of Writing and Publishing at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, near Pittsburgh, PA. For more information, visit his website, danleroy.com, or subscribe to his Substack newsletter, danleroysbonusbeats/substack.com

Gillian G. Gaar is a Seattle-based author. Her first book, She's A Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll was published in 1992. In addition to her own books, she has appeared in various anthologies, including The Nirvana Companion, Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Guide to Women in Rock, Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, Goldmine: The Beatles Digest (volumes one and two), The Best of the Beatles Book, The Stranger Guide To Seattle, 33 1/3 Greatest Hits Vol 2, A Survey of American Culture, and various editions of The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, among others. She was editorial assistant for Krist Novoselic's book From Grunge To Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy!

She was also a project consultant/liner note writer for Nirvana's box set "With The Lights Out." She has written for numerous magazines, including Rolling Stone, Mojo, Q, Goldmine, The Seattle Times, The Stranger, Option, and No Depression, and was a senior editor at Seattle music paper The Rocket.

She has also written liner notes for collections by Laurie Anderson, Judy Collins, Heart, Pat Benatar, Paula Cole and Mat Kearney, among others.

Mark Polizzotti is an author, translator, and publisher living in New York. His books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Highway 61 Revisited, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, and Why Surrealism Matters. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Apollo, ARTnews, The Nation, Parnassus, Bookforum, and elsewhere. His translations of works by Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, Scholastique Mukasonga, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, Eric Vuillard, among others, have won the English PEN Award and been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the International Booker Prize, the NBCC/Gregg Barrios Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. He is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature.

Michael T. Fournier is the author of Double Nickels on the Dime (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2007), Hidden Wheel (Three Rooms Press, 2011) and Swing State (Three Rooms Press, 2014). He graduated from University of Maine's MA program, where he won the Steven Grady Award for fiction.

His writing has appeared in Razorcake --America's only non-profit punk magazine -- as well as Pitchfork, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Vice, Oxford American, Boston Globe, Entropy, The Millions and more

Mike is the co-editor of Zisk and publisher of Policymaker, a monthly one-pager. He's the drummer and main songwriter for Dead Trend, and plays bass for Plaza, Cape Cod's #1 band.

A lifelong Red Sox fan, he lives on Cape Cod with his wife Rebecca and their cats.

Regular updates are available at michaeltfournier.org.

D.X. Ferris is an Ohio Society of Professional Journalists Reporter of the Year. He has written for Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, the A.V. Club, the Village Voice, Decibel, Metal Sucks, and other publications. When he's not drawing a terrible comic strip, he ponders serious issues like leadership. As far back as he can remember, he liked movies with narrators.

Bob Gendron is a veteran copy editor and music journalist. A longtime contributor to the Chicago Tribune and co-author of Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History, he has also written for TONE, The Absolute Sound, DownBeat, Rolling Stone, FAR, and other outlets. In his spare time, he loves visiting breweries, playing hockey, reading, and cheering for the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Blackhawks.

Matthew Gasteier is the creator of the popular blog, fupenguin.com, which is the basis for this book. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts. Some of his best friends are penguins.

Dan Kois is an editor and writer at Slate and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He's a founding host of Slate's parenting podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting and is a frequent guest on Slate's Culture Gabfest. He lives in Arlington, Virginia a lot of the time.

Daphne Carr is an Ohio-born, Youngstown-Allentown raised author, editor, publisher, activist, and scholar living in New York City. In 2011 she co-founded Feedback Press, a music-focused independent press (feedbackpress dot org).

Daphne has written cultural criticism and journalism for a number of magazines, alternative newspapers, and websites, and has been the series editor of Best Music Writing since 2006. She is the co-founder of GirlGroup, a listserv for and about women music writers, and an educator at the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls in Brooklyn, NY.

Cyrus R. K. Patell is Professor of Literature at NYUAD and Professor of English at NYU in New York. He began his scholarly career as a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century US literature and culture, but his recent scholarship and teaching has centered on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, on late-20th century US emergent literatures, Global Shakespeare, and Star Wars.

Patell is presently at work on essays about Batman, the Marvel comic "Not Brand Ecch," and the Witches of Dathomir from the Star Wars universe, as well as a monograph on the ways in which Shakespeare's Hamlet became a part of global cultural heritage. With Deborah Lindsay Williams, he is co-editing volume eight of the twelve-volume Oxford History of the Novel in English (general editor Patrick Parrinder) on the American novel after 1940.

Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College.

He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger.

He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia, guest-edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2002, and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine.

His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York

Alex Niven grew up in Northumberland. After leaving the North East in 2003, he lived in Moscow, Bristol, Oxford, Manchester, New York and London, before returning to live in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2015. His books include Folk Opposition (2011) and New Model Island (2019) and he has written for publications including the Guardian, the New York Times, Tribune, New Statesman and Pitchfork. He is currently a lecturer in English literature at Newcastle University.

Ethan Hayden was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, but raised primarily in the North Texas area. In 2008, he graduated from the University of North Texas with B.M.s in Composition and Theory, and recently received his M.A. in composition from the University at Buffalo. His principal composition teachers include Cort Lippe, Jeffrey Stadelman, Joseph Klein, Andrew May, and David Bithell. Still at UB, he is currently a Ph.D. Candidate, in the process of completing his dissertation. Ethan is the Associate Director of Wooden Cities, a Buffalo-based contemporary music ensemble, and is active as a performer, regularly presenting new and experimental works for voice. His book on Sigur Rós's ( ) for the 33⅓ series was published by Bloomsbury in August 2014.

Michael Stewart Foley is a writer and historian of American political culture - broadly defined. Born and raised outside of Boston, Foley is the author or editor of eight books, including the prize-winning CONFRONTING THE WAR MACHINE: DRAFT RESISTANCE DURING THE VIETNAM WAR, as well as FRONT PORCH POLITICS: THE FORGOTTEN HEYDAY OF AMERICAN ACTIVISM IN THE 1970S AND 1980S. He also wrote the 33 1/3 book on punk band Dead Kennedys' political masterpiece, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. Foley won the R. Serge Denisoff Award from Popular Music and Society for his article on Johnny Cash's Vietnam War politics, and in 2021, he will publish a full political biography of the Man in Black, CITIZEN CASH: THE POLITICAL LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHNNY CASH, with Basic Books.

Foley has served as historical advisor on a number of award-winning films and television shows, including Mad Men, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Boston Sunday Globe, Salon, and The Daily Beast, among other news and public affairs outlets.

He is Professor of American History at Université Grenoble Alpes in France.

Rolf Potts is the author of five books, including Vagabonding (Villard Books, 2003), and The Vagabond's Way (Ballantine Books, 2022). His adventures have taken him to six continents, and he has reported from more than sixty countries for National Geographic Traveler, The New Yorker, Slate, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Sports Illustrated, and the Travel Channel. His stories have appeared in numerous literary anthologies, and more than twenty of his essays have been selected as “Notable Mentions” in The Best American Essays, The Best American Non-Required Reading, and The Best American Travel Writing. He is based in north-central Kansas, where he keeps a small farmhouse on thirty acres with his wife, Kansas-born actress Kristen Bush.

Walter Biggins is an executive editor at the University of Georgia Press, as well as a freelance writer, based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. His work has appeared in Glide Magazine, Bookslut, RogerEbert.com, The Comics Journal, Pop Matters, and The Baseball Chronicle, among other periodicals. He has an essay published in A Year in Mississippi (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2017).

He's seen two perfect MLB games live, which is statistically odd, and over 30 Phish concerts, which is just plain silly.

Daniel Couch is a professor of English literature and composition at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon where he coordinates the campus writing center. He is the editor of the What, Where, How: The Practical Handbook for College Writers and co-author of a book on Bob Mould’s 1989 solo debut, Workbook, for Bloomsbury’s esteemed 33 1/3 series. His writing has appeared in Tape Op Magazine, One Week // One Band, the Quietus, and elsewhere.

Will Hagle is a writer from Champaign who lives in Los Angeles. 'Madvillain's Madvillainy' is his first book. 'Midwest Emo' is forthcoming on Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Genre Series.