Yet another leading light of the music scene is penning a memoir. Bob Mould, now 48, was the frontman for that well-loved ’80s speedcore/punk band, Hüsker Dü. He’s working on a book with the help of rock writer Michael Azerrad, according to Prefix magazine. Due in fall 2010 from Little, Brown, the book “will cover his work [...]
As a new American Idol season gets ready to start, one of the most talked-about contestants from an earlier season — lustrous-haired Sanjaya Malakar — has a new book due for a January 20 release. Coauthored by Alan Goldsher, Malakar’s Dancing to the Music in My Head: Memoirs of the People’s Idol includes a blow-by-blow recounting of his [...]
From KTKA.com comes news of an HIV-fighting comic-book superhero: An area pastor has teamed up with a designer to create a comic book hero whose purpose is to fight social problems such as HIV and domestic and gang violence. The character is called Wichita Man, and he will make his debut at the end of the [...]
Lou Reed is a legend in his own time. One of the 20th century’s most remarkable songwriters, the author of such ’60s classics as “Heroin” and “Walk on the Wild Side” — a Brooklyn native who underwent electroshock therapy to “cure” his homosexuality as a boy — rose to fame with the Velvet Underground and, [...]
Genuine real-life historical figures who actually lived had actual experiences: birth, life, death, interspersed with specific incidents, dialogues, emotions and actions that actually happened. Shouldn’t this be enough for us? After death, these figures remain with us in memories, in films and photographs, in documents they wrote and documents written about them. Yet a certain [...]