An original voice stepping beyond the veneer of rock-n-roll and opening the doors of constant epiphany that the author experiences along the margins of popular, and more often, unpopular music.
September 26, 2006 (Press Release) --
Darkness, Racket and Twang announces a new passionate voice in the world of rock journalism in Alex V. Cook. Instead of miring articles in this collection with dull history and celebrity gossip, Cook lays bare the relationship between the listener and the music. Each article in the book depicts a short, often temporary connection with a clutch of records you probably have never heard, letting rock music serve as a launch pad for enlightenment. His opinions are as vehement as they are controversial. Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers, who gets discussed in the book, described it as "enlightening and at times infuriating (like any book about music should be)." While the music buying public grows ever more jaded, Cook's urgent and impassioned prose is a necessity on the modern cultural landscape.
ome of the Artists discussed in this Book
Ryan Adams, Akron/Family, Oren Ambarchi, The Angels of Light, Animal Collective, Architecture in Helsinki, The Band, Devendra Banhart, The Be Good Tanyas, Andrew Bird, Black Dice, The Black Keys, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Bono, Boredoms, Boris, The Bowmans, Broken Social Scene, Stephen Bruton, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Clem Snide, Leonard Cohen, Coil, Julian Cope, Craft, Current 93, Danielson, Dead Meadow, Depeche Mode, Ana Di Silva, Drive-By Truckers, Drunk Horse, Bob Dylan, eels, Elsah, Entrance, Roky Erikson, The Fall, Fantômas, Jay Farrar, The Flaming Lips, The Fred Weaver band, Frog Eyes, Gastr Del Sol, The Grateful Dead, Growing, Guided By Voices, Hangedup, Gary Higgins, Jolie Holland, The Howing Hex, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Jaga Jazzist, Jandek, Jane, Kronos Quartet, Lowry, Luna, Matisyahu, Mclusky, Ramsay Midwood, Moby, Morrissey, The Mountain Goats, Nashvile Pussy, The National, Scout Niblett, Ogurusu Norihide, Okay, Ariel Pink, Lou Reed, Ken Russell, Saint Vitus, Shellac, Silver Jews, Elliot Smith, Alan Sparhawk, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, Joe Strummer, Sunn O))), Harry Taussig, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La band, This Song Is A Mess But So Am I, Town and Country, Ulver, Elizabeth Anka Vajagic, Van Halen, The Velvet Underground, Scott Walker, M Ward, Gillian Welch, White Noise and, Yo La Tengo
ISBN-10: 0-9776849-2-X
The Author Info
Alex V. Cook, along with being a family man, lapsed painter and ardent mediocre guitarist, is a writer living and working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His work can be found in a slew of regional magazines and a growing trickle of national ones. This is his first book.
The Publisher Info
The SideCartel is a small and loose conglomeration of like-minded writers, artists and musicians, hellbent on using the best new technology available to create, manufacture and distribute work that might otherwise forever lurk in the shadows.
More information available at www.sidecartel.com
ome of the Artists discussed in this Book
Ryan Adams, Akron/Family, Oren Ambarchi, The Angels of Light, Animal Collective, Architecture in Helsinki, The Band, Devendra Banhart, The Be Good Tanyas, Andrew Bird, Black Dice, The Black Keys, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Bono, Boredoms, Boris, The Bowmans, Broken Social Scene, Stephen Bruton, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Clem Snide, Leonard Cohen, Coil, Julian Cope, Craft, Current 93, Danielson, Dead Meadow, Depeche Mode, Ana Di Silva, Drive-By Truckers, Drunk Horse, Bob Dylan, eels, Elsah, Entrance, Roky Erikson, The Fall, Fantômas, Jay Farrar, The Flaming Lips, The Fred Weaver band, Frog Eyes, Gastr Del Sol, The Grateful Dead, Growing, Guided By Voices, Hangedup, Gary Higgins, Jolie Holland, The Howing Hex, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Jaga Jazzist, Jandek, Jane, Kronos Quartet, Lowry, Luna, Matisyahu, Mclusky, Ramsay Midwood, Moby, Morrissey, The Mountain Goats, Nashvile Pussy, The National, Scout Niblett, Ogurusu Norihide, Okay, Ariel Pink, Lou Reed, Ken Russell, Saint Vitus, Shellac, Silver Jews, Elliot Smith, Alan Sparhawk, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, Joe Strummer, Sunn O))), Harry Taussig, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La band, This Song Is A Mess But So Am I, Town and Country, Ulver, Elizabeth Anka Vajagic, Van Halen, The Velvet Underground, Scott Walker, M Ward, Gillian Welch, White Noise and, Yo La Tengo
ISBN-10: 0-9776849-2-X
The Author Info
Alex V. Cook, along with being a family man, lapsed painter and ardent mediocre guitarist, is a writer living and working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His work can be found in a slew of regional magazines and a growing trickle of national ones. This is his first book.
The Publisher Info
The SideCartel is a small and loose conglomeration of like-minded writers, artists and musicians, hellbent on using the best new technology available to create, manufacture and distribute work that might otherwise forever lurk in the shadows.
More information available at www.sidecartel.com
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