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Different tune, same story

Battle of the Bands by Eric Smith and Lauren Gibaldi

September 5, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

There’s a thing that happens when you totally crush out on someone. It’s like you can feel your heartbeat in every part of your body. There’s a euphoric kind of excitement mixed with sadness and terror. It’s hard to explain, but it happens in an instant and then just explodes and grows from there, consuming your every waking thought and sometimes your dreams. You can’t escape from it. It takes over and runs the controls that make you . . . you. Suddenly, you aren’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Ashley Poston, Ashley Woodfolk, brittany cavallaro, cbr15bingo, coming out, Eric Smith and Lauren Gibaldi, high school, high school band, high school shenanigans, Jasmine Warga, jay coles, Jeff Zentner, Jennifer Marie Thorne, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Justin Courtney Pierre, Katie Cotugno, musicians, pining, Preeti Chhibber, rock music, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Shaun David Hutchinson, teenage angst, teenage years

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Ashley Poston, Ashley Woodfolk, brittany cavallaro, cbr15bingo, coming out, Eric Smith and Lauren Gibaldi, high school, high school band, high school shenanigans, Jasmine Warga, jay coles, Jeff Zentner, Jennifer Marie Thorne, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Justin Courtney Pierre, Katie Cotugno, musicians, pining, Preeti Chhibber, rock music, Sarah Nicole Smetana, Sarvenaz Taghavian, Shaun David Hutchinson, teenage angst, teenage years ·
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Sing to me, Daisy Jones and the Six, and never stop

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

April 27, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Daisy Jones is a bored, rich girl who is too pretty and too talented for her own good. Billy Dunne is a natural talent who starts a band with his brother called The Six. Individual they both do well for themselves, but together as the group Daisy Jones and the Six, they are electric. Naturally, as a rock n roll band in the 70s, the group members of this band struggle with ego, alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, and complex relationship within and outside of the band. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1970s, Fiction, interviews, rock music, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1970s, Fiction, interviews, rock music, Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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An Academic Look at a Fun Subject – Latinx Rock

Rock the Nation: Latin/o Identities and the Latin Rock Diaspora by Roberto Avant-Mier

September 7, 2019 by Halbs Leave a Comment

If there’s anything good to be said about the Trump era, I think it’s that we’re all forced to figure out who we are. It’s not necessarily that we HAVE to take the President’s lead and become galvanized on all issues or against one another, but we do have to look at our identities, and what we’ll tolerate in our culture, and what we won’t. Personally, all of the negativity towards Latinx people has led me to embrace the Mexican-American and Basque portions of my […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Latinx, Roberto Avant-Mier, rock music

Halbs's CBR11 Review No:35 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Latinx, Roberto Avant-Mier, rock music ·
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Think Someone Could Record the Songs from this Novel?

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

July 29, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Pajiba The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was one of my favorite reads this year (review forthcoming, eventually, hopefully), so I was excited to realize Reid had a new novel out.  When I started actually going through the Bingo board and looking through the Pajiba archive, I was even more excited to realize that I could read it for that square – I was actually trying to find Dustin’s article on Baby Teeth because I thought I might finally use this as the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 70s, cbr11bingo, daisy jones and the six, drug addiction, oral history, pajiba, rock music, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 70s, cbr11bingo, daisy jones and the six, drug addiction, oral history, pajiba, rock music, Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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I know, it’s only rock n roll but I like it!

Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock by Steven Hyden

January 31, 2019 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Twilight of the Gods is Steven Hyden’s power balled tribute to the genre of classic rock and what it’s meant in his life. In this entertaining and thoughtful read, with chapters structured as a track list with accompanying liner notes, Hyden meditates on why he loves classic rock, what it means to lose heroes, and on the future of rock. As you may be able to guess by the title and the cover, two of Hyden’s foundational bands are Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. He […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: music, rock music, Steven Hyden

Halbs's CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: music, rock music, Steven Hyden ·
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Passion Play

July 5, 2018 by ElCicco 1 Comment

I had hoped to have this review in for Canada Day, but if I’m lucky, I’ll have it ready before Robbie Robertson’s birthday (July 5) is over. Robertson is a musician perhaps best known for his songwriting and guitar playing for the Band, and in this memoir, he describes his journey from a 16-year-old school drop out on the road with Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks through his successful but tumultuous years with the Band. I picked up the book because I was already familiar […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, #memoir, ElCicco, Non-Fiction, Robbie Robertson, rock music, Testimony

ElCicco's CBR10 Review No:30 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, #memoir, ElCicco, Non-Fiction, Robbie Robertson, rock music, Testimony ·
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