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Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays
Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays
Play This Book Loud: The Playlist
Play This Book Loud: The Playlist
Go to the playlist Play This Book Loud, available on 6 music services.
Hear me on the Music Books Podcast
Hear me on the Music Books Podcast
On this episode, Marc talks with Joe Bonomo, author of "Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays," published in May of 2025. It's a collection of pieces Bonomo wrote for various publications, primarily the website The Normal School, covering a wide range...
Hear me on the Read Beat (and Repeat) Podcast
Hear me on the Read Beat (and Repeat) Podcast
Play This Book Loud is the literary equivalent of a trip to the record store, that enchanting experience of searching for something new from something old. Joe Bonomo (pronounced Bo-know-mo, not the Turkish Taffy), an English professor at Nor...
AC DC's Highway To Hell (33 1/3) is now an audio book!
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AC DC's Highway To Hell (33 1/3) is now an audio book!
NO SUCH THING AS WAS: my Substack
NO SUCH THING AS WAS: my Substack
rock & roll • sound and sense. Click to read No Such Thing As Was, by Joe Bonomo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Subscribe to NO SUCH THING AS WAS (for free!)
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"This Miles Davis thing"—NEW
"This Miles Davis thing"—NEW
Or, how Lester Bangs learned to love On the Corner
It's 1979, okay?
It's 1979, okay?
Revisiting a couple end-of-decade statements of purpose—and a Twenty-first century one
The way this world is going ain’t where I’m at
The way this world is going ain’t where I’m at
Margo Price and her new band delivered in spades at the Metro in Chicago
What time is it?
What time is it?
Joe McPhee's free jazz anthem "Nation Time" feels as relevant now as it it sounded far-out then
It's just the way I have to live
It's just the way I have to live
Peter Holsapple and the dBs' "I Lie" still haunts down the years
Archive of my biannual music essays at THE NORMAL SCHOOL
Archive of my biannual music essays at THE NORMAL SCHOOL
Monochrome America—my latest for The Normal School
Monochrome America—my latest for The Normal School
I’m already apprehensive about driving over a body of water when Vega grabs my elbow and whispers to me that we’re riding around in a killer's car, it’s nineteen hundred seventy seven, whole country is doing a fix, it’s doomsday, doomsday . The bridge is sturdy beneath my wheels, yet I wasn’t prepa
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