Resources

If you’ve found this blog, you perhaps have an interest in writing about music.

I’ll use this page to collect together a few resources and links to stuff that I think are useful for anyone starting out in the field, alongside some ‘must-reads’.

WRITING TIPS

Danny Rubin reminds us to Write Less, Say More over at Lifehacker.

Liam Tucker on why writing for the web is different.

Want to write the perfect album review? Alex Petredis has some advice.

ON THE SHELF

The Penguin Guide to Punctuation (Penguin Reference Books)

 SOME MUSIC BOOK CLASSICS

The first volume of Peter Guralnick’s majesterial Elvis Presley biography, Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is an amazing insight into the birth of a legend.

Jon Savage’s England’s Dreaming remains a classic study of punk rock and its legacy.