"Summertime always finds me reading music bios of various stripes—it's a varied field with perhaps more misses than hits—but Keep Music Evil, the new book by Jesse Valencia about the legendary Brian Jonestown Massacre, is going in my beach bag for sure. The ever-changing band and its leader, Anton Newcombe, probably best-known from Ondi Timoner's 2004 documentary Dig!, packs more dysfunction into a day, an album, or a gig than any other I've known, but that seems to be the price for the sort of transcendence they're seeking (and, often, achieving)." - Corey Seymour, Senior Editor
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