Vermin on the Mount

Corporate Rock Sucks Named Best Music Book of 2022

Pitchfork has named Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records one of the 15 Best Music Books of 2022. Here's what Nina Corcoran had to say: 

With Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records, author Jim Ruland organizes a plethora of original interviews, newspaper clippings, and battered flyers into an ode to the label that helped rock evolve. Across 14 in-depth chapters, the book catalogs how SST moved beyond hardcore, fed college radio its meat and potatoes, and impacted regional scenes by amplifying their artists – often at the expense of the pockets of its bands. These anecdotes will likely become a go-to resource for punk archivists looking beyond the impact of Damaged or Double Nickels on the Dime.

The paperback doesn't come out until June but there are still plenty of hardcover editions available wherever you buy books. 

 

GO FORTH

 
The first Vermin on the Mount event in the newly renovated upstairs lounge at the Mountain Bar got some very nice ink in Forth Magazine. A sample...

When I first walked into the red-lit lounge, I was immediately treated to a free copy of Goodloe Byron’s novel Revisions Of and a raffle ticket for a chance to win one of five new copies of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49. Free stuff in one hand and a drink in the other? That’s my kind of night. I quickly grabbed a seat (lucky I did, too, since the room filled so fast that stragglers were forced to stand in the back), and prepared myself for a night of promised irreverence.

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