Jesse Jarnow is the author of Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock (2012) and Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for American Pop (2018). His writing on music, technology, and culture has appeared in the New York Times, Pitchfork, Wired.com, Rolling Stone, Dupree's Diamond News, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor at Relix, and hosts the weekly Frow Show on independent Jersey City radio city station WFMU. He tweets via @bourgwick and @HeadsNews and lives in Brooklyn.
[Jarnow] is our generation's foremost Grateful Dead chronicler, and
something of a cultural ambassador to the punks and indie kids who
might not otherwise pay the band any mind.--Spin
A brilliant study of the transformative impact of LSD on a
half-century of US art, music, movies, spirituality, and
technology.--Uncut, Book of the Year, December 2016
Engaging and deeply researched... Generously illustrated with
archival photos and artifacts.
--Ugly Things
If you are a fan of books dealing with the history of salt, timber,
or something more exotic like sex, you will delight in
Heads, a book about psychedelics.... [A] well-documented
spiraling history of how these drugs transformed our present
culture.--Bookcase TV
Music, history, and psychopharmacology blend together in
Heads.... Jarnow describes in colorful and scrupulously
researched detail how psychedelic music fused with actual
psychedelics to create a ceaselessly regenerating 'hip economy'
that persists to this day.... It's a head trip and then
some.--Rolling Stone, 10 Best Music Books of 2016
undefined--Addicted to Noise, "Best of 2016: Top 5 Books"
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