Kim Simpson's Selected Scribbles




Early '70s Radio: The American Format Revolution
is Kim's recently-published first book and is now
available at Continuum, Amazon, and many others booksellers.
See the book's companion blog at www.early70sradio.com.


Scenes from the Movie
Dialogue, Winter 2003, 207-212
(A piece inspired by Kim's Utah childhood)



Kim's book reviews and other contributions to PopMatters:
Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America's Garage Band
Vinyl Highway: Singing as Dick and Dee Dee
W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose
Frontman: Surviving the Rock Star Myth
A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans
The Peel Sessions: A Story of Teenage Dreams and One Man's Love of New Music
The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance
Mother Nature's Son (The Beatles White Album 40th Anniversary)
Slipped Discs: The Fleshtones - Take a Good Look
Slipped Discs: Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street



Boneyard Media (selected reviews and posts):
Auto-Tuned, Funny-Dancing Gap Rap Over WOWY: Personal Notes on Billboard's 2009 Top 100 (4/10)
Review: Bloody Confused: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer, by Chuck Culpepper (2/10)
Memo to Wes Anderson: Please Drop the Classic Rock Record Schtick (11/09)
Riley Walker: Uranium Minstrel (Redux) (5/09)
The Superior Song Sequence on Cassette Versions of Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic (3/09)
Review: White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, by Joe Boyd (10/08)
Have a Cigar, Boys: Checking in with Kendell Kardt of Rig (1/08)
Hal Holiday: From a Joker to a King (12/07)
Review: The Show I'll Never Forget, by Sean Manning, ed. (8/07)
Lubbock High School (6/07)
Review: The Beach Boys and the California Myth, by David Leaf (3/07)



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