Lester's Legacy
Bangs in wikipedia.
Bangs Interview from
1980; also available to purchase on cassette. (From Cousin
Creep, author unknown)
Robert Christgau's Bangs obit.
Robert Quine interviewed by Jim DeRogatis about Lester Bangs (Perfect Sound Forever)
Lester Bangs fan and REM guitarist, Peter Buck talks big Bang
theories with Peter Murphy.
Mentor.
Editor. Lester. A Personal Appreciation by Jeffrey "Firebird" Morgan.
Lester Bangs, King of the Noise
Boys. By David Dalton.
Burying
Lester Bangs, Brian James, PopMatters
Was Lester Bangs the
Best Rock Critic of the '70s? (Sasha Frere-Jones, Slate.)
Brian Eno: A
Sandbox In Alphaville. Previously unpublished Bangs piece reprinted in
Perfect Sound Forever.
My Black Pages. Don Waller
reviews Mainlines in LA CityBEAT.
Lester Bangs
the Gong One Last Time. (Alan Niester, Globe and Mail.)
The Right to
Be Wrong: On the Occasion of a New Bangs Book, Richard Hell Remembers
the Late, Great Rock Critic (in the Village Voice).
Infomercials
for Myself: If There’s A Rock ‘N’ Roll Heaven, Could You Hook Me Up
With A Plus-One? William Ham channels Bangs in High Hat.
Official Random House
page for Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste. Including an
excerpt.
Pills and Thrills: Nick
Kent Remembers the Brilliant, Tortured Lester Bangs. [The
Guardian.]
Bangsology: Jim DeRogatis Lets it Blurt, By Ken
Shimamoto.
An entire page
Let it Blurt reviews and commentary (from Jim DeRogatis's site).
A Final Chat
With Lester Bangs. By Jim DeRogatis, in Perfect Sound Forever.
Busting
the Cult of Lester Bangs: Rethinking the Legacy of Rock's Most
Celebrated Critic. (Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone.)
Did
Lester Bangs Die in Vain? Ira Robbins's review of Let It
Blurt.
A review of Lester Bangs's
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. By Gregory McNamee
Lester
Bangs Tribute, by Kurt Hernon, in Perfect Sound Forever.
Creative
Quotations from Lester Bangs.
Lester reprints online
Astral
Weeks.
Free Jazz/Punk Rock.
The
White Noise Supremacists
The Shaggs
Trout Mask
Replica
Captain
Beefheart's Lick My Decals Off Baby.
Them
(feat. Van Morrison):
Patti
Smith (profile)
Patti
Smith (Easter)
Cheers to Glorious Noise for gathering
dozens of Bangs reviews from Rolling Stone, from MC5 to Styx
to the Slits!
Bangs between covers
Psychotic
Reactions and Carburetor Dung. Edited by Greil Marcus.
Main
Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste. Edited by John Morthland.
Let
It Blurt: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Rock Critic, by Jim
DeRogatis.
 
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