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The purpose of Play This Book Loud is to electrify readers, set them on fire, and send them running out into the night in search of their own life-altering experiences. Bonomo lets us in on the secret, rounds out the picture, supplies the details, presents us with the whole world of rock and pop. There’s so much more to that world than the golden oldies everybody knows. Historians and fans alike will be glad to have this book. -- David Kirby * author of Help Me, Information * From the origins of the great 'Tobacco Road' to the debauched glory of disco-era Stones to a gimlet-eyed close-up of indie legends like the Reigning Sound and the Devil Dogs, Play This Book Loud is a treasure trove of great rock writing, social history, and some of the finest cultural code breaking of the century. Top-shelf criticism, worthy of the very best works in the genre. -- Elizabeth Nelson * lead singer of The Paranoid Style * Joe Bonomo is a fellow traveler: a total music nut and aesthetic electrician, obsessed with old media and new ways to understand how we connect, and fully live, through art. Old 45s, The Who and The Stones, The Cramps and The Jam, Green Day, Bikini Kill and Lydia Loveless; these thrumming essays make palpable his passions. Tune in, pump the volume, and they may become yours too. -- Will Hermes * author of Lou Reed: The King of New York and Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever * Play This Book Loud is a tribute to a life spent obsessing over rock, the louder the better, and makes turning up the volume seem like a heroic quest. Joe Bonomo evokes the memories buried in the music, from the Kingsmen to the Cramps, from Joey Ramone to Margo Price, from Dick Clark to Walter Benjamin. -- Rob Sheffield * author of Love Is A Mix Tape and Dreaming the Beatles * Writing about music is not as easy as it might seem. Joe Bonomo nimbly threads the line between pomposity and naivete in these essays and reviews. In the finest rock critic tradition, Play This Book Loud reads like literary journalism or an impassioned conversation with a friend. -- Evelyn McDonnell * author of The World According to Joan Didion *

The purpose of Play This Book Loud is to electrify readers, set them on fire, and send them running out into the night in search of their own life-altering experiences. Bonomo lets us in on the secret, rounds out the picture, supplies the details, presents us with the whole world of rock and pop. There’s so much more to that world than the golden oldies everybody knows. Historians and fans alike will be glad to have this book. -- David Kirby * author of Help Me, Information * From the origins of the great ""Tobacco Road"" to the debauched glory of disco-era Stones to a gimlet-eyed close-up of indie legends like the Reigning Sound and the Devil Dogs, Play This Book Loud is a treasure trove of great rock writing, social history, and some of the finest cultural codebreaking of the century. Top shelf criticism, worthy of the very best works in the genre. -- Elizabeth Nelson * lead singer and songwriter of The Paranoid Style * Joe Bonomo is a fellow traveler: a total music nut and aesthetic electrician, obsessed with old media and new ways to understand how we connect, and fully live, through art. Old 45s, The Who and The Stones, The Cramps and The Jam, Green Day, Bikini Kill and Lydia Loveless; these thrumming essays make palpable his passions. Tune in, pump the volume, and they may become yours too. -- Will Hermes * author of Lou Reed: The King of New York and Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever * Play This Book Loud is a tribute to a life spent obsessing over rock, the louder the better, and makes turning up the volume seem like a heroic quest. Joe Bonomo evokes the memories buried in the music, from the Kingsmen to the Cramps, from Joey Ramone to Margo Price, from Dick Clark to Walter Benjamin. -- Rob Sheffield * author of Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time and Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World *

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JOE BONOMO has written about music for many years. His books include Field Recordings from the Inside; Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America's Garage Band; AC/DC's Highway to Hell (33 1/3 Series), and Conversations with Greil Marcus. He lives in DeKalb, Illinois. Visit him online at No Such Thing as Was.

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