
How I Fell in Love With 7-inch Singles and Why They Still Matter
Beth Winegarner

Beth Winegarner is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Guardian, Wired, Mother Jones and many others. Her most recent book is "Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa." She lives in San Francisco. Find out more at www.bethwinegarner.com.

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we're shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Beth Winegarner flips through an old collection and finds it relevant even today. When I was a teenager, I had a ritual every Saturday afternoon. My mom and I would...

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we're shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Beth Winegarner revisits her teenage obsession with infamous Doors frontman Jim Morrison, an archetype of both the sensitive poet within herself and the thorny men...