Poetic Memory: Rumspringa (List)
The L.A. band has its sights on San Diego.
Categories: interviews, listen, san diego | Tags: 13th Floor Elevators, bob dylan, bob seger, buddy holly, david bowie, los lobos, Mannie Nieto, rolling stones, Rumspringa, t. rex, the breeders, the clash, the rumble, white stripes
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Poetic Memory: Matthew Specktor (List)
The 19-year-old narrator of Matthew Specktor’s novel That Summertime Sound has two options: return home to L.A. and a family that hardly notices him; or travel to the Heart of the Heart of the Country—Columbus, Ohio—and come of age. The novel is set against the Columbus music scene of the 1980s, and Specktor is looking to […]
Categories: interviews, listen | Tags: 13th Floor Elevators, Aerosmith, authors, Curtis Mayfield, Don DeLillo, Donnie Hathaway, Funkadelic, Geoff Dyer, Hecuba, Henry James, Iggy Pop, led zeppelin, matthew specktor, Parliament, Richard & Mimi Farina, ringo starr, Spacemen 3, the beatles, The Go-Betweens, the velvet underground, Thomas Pynchon, vladimir nabokov
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