Frank Valish News Today

You might not remember Speedball Baby. But bassist Ali Smith’s memoir is engaging in a way that few typical rock and roll stories are.

Grandview Drive, the debut effort from Tim Blackett, is a collection of 16 interconnected short stories that exude loneliness, isolation, and the often desolate nature of human experience.

Your default description here

Your Absence is Darkness expounds on themes of life, death, love, loneliness, mistakes, and the search for meaning, those of which great novels are made. It will be one of the best books you read this year.

In April of 2018, Mackenzie Scott, aka TORRES, was unceremoniously dropped from her record label, 4AD. Evidently, her third album, the experimental, gender-bending tour de force, "Three Futures," did not sell to expectation.

In Adventures in Modern Recording, Trevor Horn chronicles his rise and time on top as one of the most in demand producers of the 1980s and beyond.

Matt Pryor is the frontman for the band The Get Up Kids. Red Letter Days is his memoir, of sorts.

Read an exclusive interview in which of Montreal's Kevin Barnes interviews Daryl Hall and John Oates. This is part two of the interview, in which Barnes interviews Oates.

Your default description here

Your default description here