The Misread City

HERE at The Misread City, we're huge Byrds fans, and Gene Clark is, some days, our favorite member of that great L.A. band. With the Byr...

THE other day I spoke to the former leader of what may've been the greatest band of the '90s -- Stephen Malkmus of Pavement. Their m...

RECENTLY I've been corresponding with Dave Allen, bassist for the British post-punk group Gang of Four. His ideas on digital culture -- ...

CAMPER Van Beethoven's singer David Lowery has become the most ornery of those fighting for musician's rights. He's erupted over...

DESPITE our well-documented bias for things West Coast, the Misread City gang has a deep and abiding love for the work of Dean W...

Still buzzing from some recent cultural highs -- Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio at UCLA Royce Hall, the Glass/Wilson Einstein on the Bea...

HERE at The Misread City, we’re longtime fans of Rick Moody’s novels ( The Ice Storm ), short stories ( Demonology ) and music writing (co...

ONE of our favorite newish bands, here at The Misread City's sleekly refurbed listening room, is Futurebirds, from Athens, Ga. Some list...

TODAY I have a story in Salon looking at the golden age of cable TV post- Sopranos , and contrasting this with the economic/technological f...

THEY were nearly invisible -- barely even a memory -- during most of my formative years, and you'd never hear 'em on the "class...

WHY is it that so many of the band we like here at the Misread City -- a site dedicated to West Coast culture -- come from Glasgow, a city w...

SARAH Polley, the actress and director, has a new, very well reviewed film out. A few years ago, when her directorial debut, Away From Her, ...

YOUR humble blogger caught a very good show at Largo last night by the LA folk duo The Milk Carton Kids . I've dug their Gillian Welch...

THE other day I spoke to Joe Boyd, the Britfolk impresario, because of his new tribute record, Way to Blue . The album is in honor of Nick D...

A SHORT, insightful new book about the making of the modern world – told in microcosm – has just come from the pen of a noted indie rocker. ...