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Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his career at Melody Maker in the mid-1980s. He subsequently worked as a freelancer and published a number of books on music and popular culture.
Dec 26, 2012 · Simon Reynolds is a music critic whose seventh book, Retromania, was published in 2011. Reynolds’s first book, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock (1990), celebrated late-Eighties underground rock and neo-psychedelia.
Aug 1, 2011 · Music critic Simon Reynolds tackles just this question in his book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, released in mid-July. Focusing on music, Reynolds asserts that...
Jul 8, 2013 · Its author, Simon Reynolds, was already an established music critic when he caught the rave bug in the early ’90s, having written about the outer fringes of underground rock in Melody Maker and elsewhere.
Nov 28, 2016 · That sentiment is part of what makes Wilde, according to the British music critic and historian Simon Reynolds, “the first philosopher of glam, expounding its tenets 80 years in advance.”
Sep 15, 2011 · Music critic Simon Reynolds joins us to talk about how songs can be more unimaginative when we have unprecedented access to decades’ worth of past music, the trouble with searching out authenticity, the loop of musicians re-creating old sounds, and more.
Jul 31, 2011 · We talk with music critic and Retromania author Simon Reynolds in the first installment of our new recurring books feature.
