Mark Sinker is a music writer, journalist, and former editor of The Wire magazine.
This book is a celebration, a critique, a discussion, a history, a conversation, an intriguing read, and a catalogue of possibilities – what more could you want? —International Times With this volume, [Sinker] celebrates the noise of disagreement and critical tension. His editing and framing of the volume turn it into something more interesting than a simple celebration of some kind of “golden age of music journalism”, because, as he puts it “resurgent gleeful cacophony is much more the reality than nostalgia: a polyglot discourse rude and smart.” —Irish Times Top-notch interviewees, a real delight —MOJO