Music in a Word, Volume 1

By Ira A. Robbins

If you've ever wondered how and why anyone becomes a critic, some of the answers are here in Music in a Word Volume 1, an anthology and memoir by veteran American music journalist Ira Robbins. Features, essays, previously unpublished interviews, album and concert reviews plus colorful recollections of 50 years spent on a rock and roll soapbox.

Subjects include Trouser Press magazine, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen, Ice Cube, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Cure, Liz Phair, Pavement, Michael Jackson, T. Rex, the B-52's, Isaac Hayes, Elvis Presley, Jethro Tull, J. Geils, Public Enemy, David Bowie, Sparks, R.E.M., Phil Collins, Linda Ronstadt, John Lydon, Kirsty MacColl, Holly Beth Vincent, Billy Joel, Tears for Fears, Julian Cope, Ian McCulloch and much more. Profusely illustrated with images from the author's archive.

ISBN (paperback) 978-0-9842539-7-5 / (E-book) 978-0-9842539-6-8

$20.00

Music in a Word, Volume 2

By Ira A. Robbins

ISBN (paperback) 978-0-9842539-8-2 (E-book) 978-0-9842539-9-9

The second volume of veteran rock critic Ira Robbins' anthology-and-memoir Music in a Word trilogy compiles his extensive writing about nine artists. Includes previously unpublished interview transcripts, profiles, reviews and liner notes. Published 2021.

  • The Who

  • Cheap Trick

  • The Ramones

  • Nirvana

  • The Clash

  • The Kinks

  • Elvis Costello

  • Keith Richards and the Rolling Stones

  • The Replacements

$20.00

Music in a Word, Volume 3

By Ira A. Robbins

The final volume of the Music in a Word trilogy collects previously unpublished interviews, feature articles, liner notes, book reviews, correspondence, obituaries and critics’ polls.

Subjects include David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Television, Radiohead, Morrissey, CBGB, Isaac Hayes, Dusty Springfield, Stray Cats, ELO, Johnny Thunders, Adam Ant, Nick Lowe, Bryan Adams, Blondie, the Yardbirds, Fountains of Wayne, Lester Bangs, Lou Reed, They Might Be Giants and much more.

Profusely illustrated with images from the author's archive.

ISBN (paperback) 978-0-9842539-2-7 / (eBook) 978-0-9842539-3-4

$20.00