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cbr12bingo – Music!

Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman

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The House of Jealous Lovers! Yes, it’s an excellent track by The Rapture. It could also be the title of this oral history (the actual title, Meet Me in the Bathroom, is a song by another prominently featured band, but we’ll get to that). This collection covers the movers, shakers, and hangers-on of NYC’s rock “revival” in the early hours of the 21st century- and man oh man are they a petty, catty, and jealous bunch! The “speakers” of this history are a collection of musicians, […]

Thank you Pacific Ocean! And good night!

Lloyd Finds His Whalesong by Skylaar Amann

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What book was going to be my cbr12bingo Music block? Though I could not remember the title right off, I knew a book about a whale I had read would be perfect. After bugging a coworker to 1) read it and 2) tell me the title I found it. The background to the book is almost as fun. as the book itself. As I said, after I had found this book that had caught my eye because of its lovely blue cover, that allowed me […]

Heavy on the 90s Music Nostalgia

Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-0! by Carly Usdin

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Bingo Square 1: Music Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! could actually have fit more than one square, but I wanted to start in a corner, and Music is what I’d slotted it for, so this is where it all starts. This is book 2 in a graphic novel series that is set in a music store, whose employees form a band and compete in a battle of the bands, and who investigate wrong-doing or dishonesty in the music business. I liked volume 1 but I think either […]

Ladies of the Canyons flashback

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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  What a blast from the past.  Spoiler alert, Daisy Jones and I am the same age, and living the 1970’s LA life whilst in your twenties was some good times.  The music was all around, in an LA-centric way I have not seen since.  (Still here.)  The clubs were rocking, but I did not have that kind of money, although the boyfriend and I managed to swing tickets once for the Universal Amphitheater and Linda Ronstadt in all her boy scout uniform glory (damn, […]

I get by with a little help from books like this

With a Little Help from My Friends by John Lennon & Paul McCartney

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There is no question that With a Little Help from My Friends is the John Lennon and Paul McCartney song. It is right there in the title. What I did not expect was Henry Cole’s illustrations. I expected the classic song, but not how it was illustrated. I did not expect two friends, who are their own true selves, find each other. I did not expect some lovely coloring and a combination of minimal and just the right amount of details. The story comes from […]



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