October 2007 :: Print Reviews

Print Reviews

A Month on the Road with $100 and a T-Shirt

A zine about touring about zines? It's not a logic paradox, it's the new piece of mimeographed wonder from Microcosm Press' Joe Biel. Sheila Scoville gets in the van.

Heroin Diaries

In his new book, Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx lifts the lid on the most insane year of life when his drug habit took its gruesome, inevitable toll. Andrew Ellis discovers the reality behind the typical rock star clichй or sex, drugs and rock n'roll.

The Poincarè Conjecture

A popular account of a famous but very difficult mathematics problem. Carl F Gauze, much like Teen Talk Barbie, knows that math is hard.

White Bicycles

Like a smarter and hipper Forrest Gump, Joe Boyd repeatedly turned up at the right place at the right time in the rapidly changing music world of the 1960's. From ferrying blues and jazz players around Europe, to discovering Pink Floyd, Boyd was there and he remembers what happened!