Rock and Roll Always Forgets

<div>Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining idiosyncratic influential and prolific music critics of the past three decades. His byline has appeared everywhere from the <i>Village Voice</i> and <i>Rolling Stone</i> to <i>Creem</i> <i>Spin</i> and <i>Vibe</i>. Eddy is a consistently incisive journalist unafraid to explore and defend genres that other critics look down on or ignore. His interviews with subjects ranging from the Beastie Boys the Pet Shop Boys Robert Plant and Teena Marie to the Flaming Lips AC/DC and Eminem's grandmother are unforgettable. His review of a 1985 Aerosmith album reportedly inspired the producer Rick Rubin to pair the rockers with Run DMC. In the eighties Eddy was one of the first critics to widely cover indie rock and he has since brought his signature hyper-caffeinated hyper-hyphenated style to bear on heavy metal hip-hop country-you name it. <i>Rock and Roll Always Forgets</i> features the best most provocative reviews interviews columns and essays written by this singular critic. Essential reading for music scholars and fans it may well be the definitive time-capsule comment on pop music at the turn of the twenty-first century.</div>