If this book came from anyone else I would be dubious, particularly after its cover art, BUT it is from Jessica Hopper.
Her Bio says
"Jessica Hopper is a music and culture critic whose work regularly appears in Chicago Reader, LA Weekly, SPIN, ANP and Chicago Tribune and has also been included in DaCapo's Best of Music Writing 2004, 2005 and 2007. She is also the music consultant for the public radio show, This American Life. Her widely-anthologized essay, "Emo: Where the Girls Aren't" was described as "influential" by The New York Times.
Holding fast to the music-is-my-life credo, Hopper has also done time as a tour manager, band publicist, DJ, touring bassist, Girls Rock Camp booster, and fanzine publisher. She lives in Chicago."
Above all this, she wrote what was easily the best column in Punk Planet until that sad sad day when the magazine folded, she gave an amazing portrait of the Chicago punk scene and still does to an extent at , tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's tear.
Hopper has just released a new book called "The Girls' Guide to Rocking: How to Start a Band, Book Gigs, and Get Rolling to Rock Stardom". And it is what it says it is, a guide to starting a band, talented or not, and what to do next.
0 comments:
Post a Comment