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Music Journalism Punk Rock 

A Londoner Dies in New York

April 5, 2025April 5, 2025 Rock and Roll Globe Staff 0 Comments Frank Sinatra, Peter Silverton, Sid Vicious, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Trouser Press Books

An excerpt from Peter Silverton’s excellent book London Calling New York New York

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Music Journalism 

Before It Was Easy: Ira Robbins Talks Trouser Press’s 50th Birthday

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 Jim Allen 1 Comment 50th anniversary, Big Country, Devo, Elvis Costello, Ira A. Robbins, Ira Robbins, Jimmy Page, Magazine, New Wave, Pete Townshend, Rory Gallagher, The Who, Trouser Press, Trouser Press Books, Zip It Up! The Best of Trouser Press Magazine 1974-1984

A seminal rock magazine gets an awesome anthology

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Music Journalism 

Backstage & Beyond: The Life of a Music Journalist Explored

August 6, 2023August 6, 2023 j. poet 1 Comment Aerosmith, Backstage & Beyond, Backstage & Beyond: 45 Years of Classic Rock Chants & Rants, Clint Conley, Creem, Greg Hawkes, Jim Sullivan, King Crimson, Mission of Burma, Newsweek, Peter Gabriel, Peter Prescott, The Boston Globe, The Cars, Tom Hamilton, Tony Levin, Trouser Press, Trouser Press Books

A lively chat with our own Jim Sullivan about his new book

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Folk 

Richie Havens Was the Voice of a Generation

July 4, 2023July 4, 2023 Rock and Roll Globe Staff 0 Comments 2023, Books, Bruce Pollock, Buffy Saint-Marie, Dave Van Ronk, Greenwich Village, Janis Ian, John Sebastian, Leonard Cohen, Melanie, Peter Paul and Mary, Peter Tork, Richie Havens, Roger McGuinn, Suzanne Vega, The Beatles, The Bleecker Street Tapes: Echoes of Greenwich Village, The Roches, Trouser Press Books

Author Bruce Pollock shares an excerpt from his new book The Bleecker Street Tapes

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Hard Rock Progressive Rock Psychedelics 

ALBUMS: Hawkwind, The Rock ‘n’ Roll Machine

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Carnivorous, Coronavirus, Dave Brock, Hawkwind, Kraftwerk, LaMonte Young, Neu!, Rolling Stone, Space Ritual, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, The Godz, The Velvet Underground, the Velvets, Trouser Press Books, WLIR, WPIX

51 years into their voyage, they release their best album in decades

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Glam Music Journalism 

REQUIRED READING: Trouser Glitter

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Jim Allen 1 Comment 1977, Alex Harvey, Ira Robbins, Irvine Welsh, Marc Bolan, Roxy Music, Sparks, T.Rex, The Clash, The Damned, The Jam, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, Trouser Press, Trouser Press Books

Ira Robbins goes glam in his novel ‘Marc Bolan Killed in Crash’

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