#music memoir

Tana Douglas Relives Her Life as Australia's First Female Roadie in LOUD Memoir

Tana Douglas, a teenager whose childhood was troubled by a spiteful...

Cat Woods

Liz Phair author photoCR: Elizabeth Weinberg

BOOK REVIEWLiz Phair Lights Up the Dark Side in Horror Stories Memoir

Liz Phair photo credit: Elizabeth Weinberg Liz Phair is a badass and always will be. Time has not dulled this truth teller. Her vulnerability is a weapon – honed and aware – and the world is better for it. Earlier this month, she released her first book, Horror Stories, a raw, unexpected collection...

Vanessa Fenn

ONLY NOISEWhy I Talk to Jim

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...

Beth Winegarner

ONLY NOISEA Can Of Earworms

It is unrelenting. Circular. A clump of chains I can’t untangle. It is like that hedge maze in The Shining: I cannot get out of it. I am trapped. Trapped in the ceaseless sax solo from George Michael’s “Careless Whisper.” But why? Why is it stuck in my head, in a perpetual loop? What part of my...

Madison Bloom