Tony Rettman - Music and Revolutions
Sep 6, 2022

Ed is joined by the veteran music journalist to talk about punk rock and other genres of music but also the connection between music, media and narrative building.

The interview focusses on his current area of interest, the uprising and actions of radical leftist groups in America during the 1960s and 1970s.

Books Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990 Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985

Tony Rettman is a freelance music journalist whose work has appeared in The Village Voice, Vice, The Wire, The Guardian, Philadelphia Weekly, Cleveland Scene, Arthur, Swindle, Signal to Noise, Mean and Thrasher. His articles on Sam Melville and the Venceremos of Palo Alto can be found at https://narratively.com/author/tony-rettman/.