Totally wired: post-punk interviews and overviews

"With his critically acclaimed Rip It Up and Start Again, renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds applied a unique understanding to an entire generation of musicians working in the wake of punk rock. Spawning artists as singular as Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Specials, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gang of Four, and Devo, postpunk achieved new relevance in the first decade of the twenty-first century through its profound influence on bands such as Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, and Vampire Weekend. With Totally Wired the conversation continues. The book features thirty-two interviews with postpunk's most innovative personalities, such as Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, and Lydia Lunch, alongside an "overview" section of further reflections from Reynolds on postpunk's key icons and crucial scenes. Included among them are John Lydon and PIL, Ian Curtis and Joy Division, and art-school conceptualists and proto-postpunkers Brian Eno and Malcolm McLaren. Reynolds follows these exceptional, often eccentric characters from their beginnings through the highs and lows of postpunk's heyday. Crackling with argument and anecdote, Totally Wired paints a vivid portrait of individuals struggling against the odds to make their world as interesting as possible, in the process leaving a legacy of artistic ambition and provocation that reverberates to this day"--

Also by Simon Reynolds; Contents; 1: Interviews; Ari Up; Jah Wobble; Alan Vega; Gerald Casale; Mark Mothersbaugh; David Thomas; Anthony H. Wilson; Bill Drummond; Mark Stewart; Dennis Bovell; Andy Gill; David Byrne; James Chance; Lydia Lunch; Steve Severin; Nikki Sudden; John Peel; Alison Statton; Green Gartside; Gina Birch; Martin Bramah; Linder Sterling; Steven Morris; Richard H. Kirk; Alan Rankine; Paul Haig; Phil Oakey; Martin Rushent; Edwyn Collins; Steven Daly; Paul Morley; Trevor Horn; 2: Overviews; John Lydon And Public Image Ltd:Two Biographies; Joy Division: Two Movies.

Ono, Eno, Artothe Blasting Concept: Los Angeles, Sst, And "Progressive Punk"; London Glam City; A Final Interview: Simon Reynolds; Acknowledgements; Index.