Good Road / Goods

Thanks to Luke O'Neil and BDC Wire for letting me talk about the new Good Road Goods "Boston 1980" shirt by Philin Phlash, and make fun of UNDRCRWN and Young & Reckless in the process.

Local designer puts iconic music moments on your chest Good Roads Goods, a new line of apparel from longtime Boston music fixture Brian Coleman, takes iconic photographic moments and immortalizes them on fabric.

Great piece in The Atlantic on Joe Mansfield's "Beat Box" book (out Dec 3, but pre-sale up now at Get On Down, and special in-stores-only Record Store Day edition out Fri 11/29). Thanks to Elias Leight for the article.

The Immortal Soul of the Drum Machine 808s and MRK-2s aren't hollow replacements for live percussion—they're influential, boundary-pushing instruments of their own, as a new book documents.