Authors

Johan Bakker is a music and arts freelance journalist. He has also published plays, short stories and song lyrics. He lives in Rotterdam.

Richard Evans has worked in the music industry for over thirty years in a variety of roles, including positions at London Records, Factory Records ...

Chris Campion is a British author, journalist, editor, and music producer. His writing, exploring the extremities of popular culture, as well as it...

Kid Congo Powers is a guitarist and singer-songwriter best known for his work with The Gun Club, the Cramps, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He is...

Colin Escott is the foremost authority on Sun Records. He wrote the company’s history in 1975 and has revised and expanded it several times since. ...

Award-winning and best-selling author Peter Guralnick is widely regarded as the preeminent writer on twentieth-century American popular music. H...

Richard Evans has worked in the music industry for more than 30 years and with Erasure for over a decade. In 2002 he set up www.thisisnotretro.com,...

RJ Smith has been a senior editor at Los Angeles Magazine, a contributor to Details, a columnist for The Village Voice, a staff writer for Spin, an...

Dafydd Rees has been writing music books for over 40 years. His previous titles include Rock and Roll Year by Year, The Encyclopaedia of Rock Stars...

Martin Celmins is a musician, journalist and writer. His other books include the authorised biography of British blues artist Duster Bennett, Jumpi...

David Leaf is an award-winning writer, director and producer, whose feature credits include the Venice Film festival favourite The U.S. vs. John...

Born in the beautiful German village of Berchtesgaden in 1952, sound, music and culture have been a lifelong fascination for Karl. He studied at th...