The first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic

Foreword / by Samantha Irby

Introduction: I have a strange relationship with music

Part I: Chicago

Part II: Real/Fake

Part III: Death/Redemption

Part IV: Nostalgia

Part V: California

Part VI: Strictly business

Part VII: Desire, power, pleasure

Part VIII: Personal/Political

Part IX: She said

Afterword.

I have a strange relationship with music --

Chicago. Emo : where the girls aren't (July 2003) ; Chance the Rapper (June 2013) ; Viva la filthy noise! : Coughs' Secret passage (October 2006) ; Sweet things (January 2006) ; And we remain, ever so faithfully, yours (January 2006) ; Conversation with Jim Derogatis regarding R. Kelly (December 2013) --

Real/Fake. Gaga takes a trip (April 2011) ; Deconstructing Lana Del Rey (January 2012) ; Taylor Swift, Grimes and Lana Del Rey : the year in blond ambition (January 2012) ; We can't stop : our year with Miley (January 2014) ; Louder than love : my teen grunge poserdom (Spring 2005) --

Nostalgia. When The Boss went moral : Bruce Springsteen's lost album (November 2010) ; Vedderan : notes on Pearl Jam's 20th anniversary concert (September 2011) ; You're reliving all over me : Dinosaur Jr. reunites (April 2005) ; You will ache like I ache : the oral history of Hole's Live through this (April 2014) ; You know what? (April 2010) --

California. Kendrick Lamar : not your average, everyday rap savior (October 2012) ; California demise : Tyler, the Creator and EMA feel the bad vibes (2011) ; Will the stink of success ruin The Smell? (February 2009) ; Dispatches from the desert : Coachella (May 2005) --

Faith. The passion of David Bazan (July 2009) ; Flirting with religion : Rickie Lee Jones (March 2007) ; Why Michael Jackson's past might be Gary, Indiana's only future (July 2009) ; Superchunk : I hate music (August 2013) ; Between the viaduct of your dreams : On Van Morrison (July 2008) --

Bad reviews. Miley Cyrus : Bangerz (October 2013) ; Nu age : Animal Collective and Bell Orchestre (November 2005) ; Tyler, the Creator : Wolf (April 2005) ; Old year's end (December 2007) ; Nevermind already : Nirvana's 20th anniversary boxset (September 2011) --

Strictly business. Punk is dead! Long live punk! : a report on the state of teen spirit from the mobile shopping mall that is the Vans Warped Tour (August 2004) ; Chief Keef (August 2013) ; Nude awakening : Suicide Girls (February 2006) ; How selling out saved indie rock (November 2013) ; Not Lollapalooza : Rollin Hunt, Screaming Females & Abe Vigoda (August 2007) --

Females. St. Vincent : Strange mercy (November 2011) ; Cat Power : Sun (September 2012) ; SWF, 45 : Mecca Normal's The observer (April 2006) ; Shouting out loud : The Raincoats (October 2009) ; Making pop for capitalist pigs : M.I.A.'s Maya (July 2010) ; There is no Guyville in Sweden : Frida Hyvönen's Until death comes (November 2006).