Simon Reynolds pulls back the post-punk curtain

book-cover-totally-wiredAnyone who’s read Simon Reynolds‘s Rip It Up and Start Again can tell you that his account of the post-punk era is a riveting read that will send you scurrying to iTunes and your local record shop to delve deeply into the music of Factory Records and beyond. While Reynolds has a website wherein you can find footnotes for Rip It Up and Start Again, there’s even more material that he compiled during the writing of the book.

That material is being released by Soft Skull next month as Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews. It contains interviews Reynolds conducted in preparation for writing Rip It Up and Start Again, as well as the “lost chapter” about SST and the Minutemen / Black Flag that was cut from the US edition of the original book.
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