Substacks recommended by Tony Scherman

Recommended by Tony Scherman

The Zero Hour Report: A Newsletter from Richard (RJ) Eskow

Writing, video, and audio from Richard (RJ) Eskow and The Zero Hour.

A trustworthy guide to music, books, arts, media & culture by Ted Gioia

Because Ted Gioia, who used to be primarily, if not solely, a music writer, has an incredible, enviably wide scope on American culture.

- Tony Scherman

Clip Test: photographer dude '85-'95

By Chris X Carroll

Memoirs of a decade photographing the brightest lights of hip hop, rock, art, fashion and culture. And dogs, always with the dogs.

Because Chris was (and is) very much on the scene, snapping grade-A shots of the best rockers, AND soaking up memorable experiences with them

- Tony Scherman

Call & Response

By Michelle Mercer

Slow writing on culture and music from an NPR veteran and bestselling author

Michelle is extremely intelligent and knows a lot about how the app works. While her main focus is, as it should be, on writing well, she spends a healthy portion of her time thinking up fresh ways to generate a bigger subscribership.

- Tony Scherman

EchoLocator

By Tom Moon

Thoughts on nearly vanished sounds, spirits, ideas.

Between Rock and a Hard Place

By Greg Mitchell has new 'Between Rock and a Hard Place'

Award-winning author and film director ranges widely: from politics and media to music and movies, and features the best political cartoons almost daily.

Greil Marcus / Letter in the Ether

Everyday culture and found objects

Put aside, for a moment, the abundance of books by rock's smartest, most provocative, and least predictable essayist, and read the first 3 pages of the prologue to Book #1, "Mystery Train": the funniest passage, bar none, in all rock writing. Pages that grab you and shake you by the collar; groundbreaking pages, in a groundbreaking book for the ages.

- Tony Scherman

Among the Musical

Recommended by Tony Scherman