Simon Reynolds
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Simon Reynolds is an English music journalist and author who began his career at Melody Maker in the mid-1980s. He subsequently worked as a freelancer and published a number of books on music and popu
Reynolds in 2011
Simon Reynolds and his son Kieran (also a music critic) in a conference talk in Buenos Aires, 2025
Rip It Up and Start Again
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 is a book by Simon Reynolds on the post-punk musical genre and era. It was first released in the UK in April 2005 by Faber & Faber. The US edition was pub
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…with new material on the rise of dubstep to worldwide popularity and the EDM or Electronic Dance Music explosion in America. In 2005, Reynolds released Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, a history of the post-punk era. In 2007, Reynolds published Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing about Hip Rock and Hip Hop in the UK, a collection…
Rip It Up and Start Again Postpunk 1978–1984 cover