Paperback Q&A: Simon Reynolds on Retromania
The music critic on travelling through time to grapple with pop's eerie fixation with looking backHow did you come to write Retromania?One day I realised that there was something strange going on in terms of rock and its relationship to its own past. T...
Greil Marcus: a life in writing
'I had an overwhelming urge to express the joy, the delirium, I felt listening to the radio and going to shows by the Stones and Dylan'Greil Marcus lives in a newly built, cedar-shingled house on the border between Oakland and Berkeley. Inside, the liv...
Total recall: why retromania is all the rage
From synth pop to Hollywood remakes to collecting manual typewriters, we're busy plundering the past. But why the fatal attraction?There's no single thing that made me suddenly think, Hey, there's a book to be written about pop culture's chronic addict...
