about the contributors to "Lost in the Grooves"

Brooke Alberts is an inveterate folk-head who writes for the L.A. based Folkworks, plays whistle in as many Irish traditional sessions as possible, and loves hot whiskey and a great bowl of New England clam chowder.

Mike Appelstein is the former editor/publisher of Caught in Flux zine. Currently he is an occasional DJ and freelance writer, as well as webmaster of the pretty-much-official Young Marble Giants website. He lives in St. Louis, MO. Visit www.appelstein.com for details and contact info.

Jake Austen edits Roctober, the journal of popular music's dynamic obscurities, and (with wife Jacqueline) produces the children's dance show Chic-A-Go-Go. His work has appeared in The Cartoon Music Book, Playboy, The Spice Girls Comicbook and Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth. His books include A Friendly Game of Poker and a forthcoming idiosyncratic history of rock on television. Please visit www.roctober.com

Peter Bagge is an "alternative" cartoonist, best known for his comic book "Hate," although he has many other credits to his name. Please refer to www.peterbagge.com for further details.

The Bengala is a matrimonial art collective consisting of Benjamin Tischer and Gala Verdugo. They love music almost as much as each other. They also help put out K48 Magazine, which is way rad. Contact: bengala@verizon.net

Tosh Berman is the publisher and editor of Tam Tam Books. He is currently publishing the works of Boris Vian as well as Guy Debord and Serge Gainsbourg. For further information check out www.tamtambooks.com

Jon Bernhardt has been a DJ on WMBR-FM since 1983, and plays theremin for The Lothars and The Pee Wee Fist (CDs available at http://www.wobblymusic.com). He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Derrick Bostrom performed with the Meat Puppets from 1980 to 1986. Though he still maintains the band's archives his own music can be heard under the moniker "Today's Sounds."

Joe Boucher lives in Brooklyn with his two non-specific liberal arts degrees; his attempt to get a third did not go well. He loves and appreciates his family and friends. Employers sense in him a denial of their values. He could stand to drop a few pounds, too.

Carl Cafarelli's three all-time favorite bands are the Beatles, the Ramones and the Flashcubes. So there. Carl writes for Goldmine magazine and co-hosts (with Dana Bonn) This is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, "the best three hours of radio on the whole friggin' planet!," Sunday nights from 9 to midnight Eastern at wxxe.org. Weekly e-mail playlists are available from ccdatsme@aol.com

Kevin Carhart is a freelance writer based in the SF Bay Area. He is obsessed with music, comics and women. Come to http://carhart.com/~kevin for an unruly pile of comics, reviews, dreams, circles, lists, drawings, stories and creations.

Born and raised in East LA, documentary filmmaker Sean Carrillo was a member of the guerilla art group ASCO and co-founded Troy Café. He is married to artist Bibbe Hansen.

Hayden Childs lives in Austin, TX with his wife, kitty-cat and a couple of old dogs. He plays in the band Trouble Down South (troubledownsouth.com), edits the web zine The High Hat (thehighhat.com) and infrequently updates his blog From Here to Obscurity (fater.blogspot.com).

Genevieve Conaty has been a staff writer for her own imaginary magazine for 23 years. She lives in Reading, England.

When Kim Cooper was wee, a friend of her parents gave her some albums he'd found in a trash can, among them Biff Rose's Children of Light, with which she became obsessed. The notion that great music might more easily be found amongst refuse than in bright-lit shops proved impossible to shake, and eventually led to this book.

David Cotner (Los Angeles, 1970), keeper of the mighty vault of information concerning the avant-garde that is Hertz-Lion, has founded the literalist school of musical composition alongside the subjective surrealism movement, and has discovered that the one true answer to "Do you always have to be right?" is "Should I seek to be wrong?"

Robert Dayton resides in Canada. He writes about ephemera regularly (see www.terminalcity.ca for more). He is also a performer in the musical acts Canned Hamm (www.cannedhamm.tv) and July Fourth Toilet (inquire about albums for purchase). He is a romantic hellraiser with obsessive neurotic tendencies. Self-deprecatingly vain dandyism is his strong suit. His moustache has ridden through many trends.

Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe (AKA Dubois) is a provincial dandy and a writer for international magazines including Citizen K. With his friend Xavier Alves, JED manages euro-visions records (Tribute to Delon / Melville, Pete Aves). At the moment, M. Deluxe is looking for an intelligent and good-looking girlfriend. Beware, he is French! Contact
www.euro-visions.net or d-luxe@wanadoo.fr

Stuart Derdeyn grew up in the U.S., Canada, Brazil and Spain. Now he splits his time between Texas and Vancouver, B.C. where he's the music editor of the daily Province newspaper. His freelance work has turned up everywhere from Hitlist to the Celebrator Beer News, cuz of the pints 'n' powerchord connect. Sderdeyn@png.canwest.com

Deke Dickerson is a Los Angeles-based writer, musician and Renaissance man. www.dekedickerson.com

Brian Doherty is an associate editor of Reason magazine (reason.com) and the author of This is Burning Man (Little, Brown), a forthcoming book on the history and cultural meaning of the Burning Man festival. He discusses books and music in his online 'zine Surrender #6 (surrender6.blogspot.com). He lives in Los Angeles.

Jonathan Donaldson lives and works in Cambridge, MA where he lives with his wife and children. Jonathan's writings have appeared in Scram, Dagger, Pop Culture Press, Junkmedia.org and Tangents.co.uk among other places. He records music under the name "The Color Forms."

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SL Duff is a musician, producer and writer who has appeared on over 50 independent releases and written for magazines too numerous to mention (most of them have ceased publication). He lives in the Hollywood Hills where he operates the private Toneduff Studios, lives with his wife and cat, and is widely respected for his three-bean chili recipe.

Andrew Earles writes and lives in Memphis, TN. He is working on a medical neo-thriller about comic malpractice and decommissioned rotating restaurants. To find out more about Andrew, visit: http://www.failedpilot.com

Becky Ebenkamp, a Hollywood based entertainment/ pop culture writer, has never paraded around in an aerosol-dispensed dairy product (in public).

Russ Forster resides as an aging hipster in the Midwestern U.S., land of thrift stores and bratwurst. Blame him for overpriced 8-track tapes on eBay.

Phil Freeman is a NJ-based freelance writer who contributes to Jazziz, The Wire, Alternative Press, The Cleveland Scene and The Village Voice.

Ron Garmon is an L.A. boulevardier and rock journalist who bears the nickname "the punk rock Paul Lynde" with easy grace. His monthly column in Mean Street and occasional pieces in L.A. City Beat are snottily informative, but his real job is editor-in-chief of Worldly Remains, a pop culture review. www.worldlyremains.com. He bears no moral responsibility whatever.

Doug Gillard is a Cleveland, Ohio based songwriter and musician.

Chas Glynn is a San-Francisco-based writer, musician, and gadabout. His past employment includes stints as postman, used car salesman, dishwasher in a casino, and bachelor party clown.

Gary Pig Gold, founder/publisher of Canada's very first Pure Pop fanzine The Pig Paper has been called nearly everything from "a one-of-a-kind guy" (Tower Pulse) to "rock music's all-time hardest-working man (All Music Guide). Why, the legendary Jersey goth-punk periodical Tragedienne even pronounced him "cooler than Elvis!" To find out why, simply have your mouse catch www.tomlou.com and/or PIGPROD@aol.com.

William Ham is a carbon-based writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney's, Ben is Dead, Lollipop and The Cambridge Book Review, among others. He is also co-editor of the award-coveting webzine The High Hat (http://www.thehighhat.com) and is known throughout the Southwest at "The Human Soldering Iron." No one knows why. He can be reached at whambino@hotmail.com.

Doug Harvey is art critic for L.A. Weekly (archived at www.laweekly.com). His writing has also appeared in Art issues, Art in America, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. He has too many records and been in too many bands, including Mannlicher Carcano, Tenacious Mucoid Exudate, The New Suicide Revolutionary Jazz Bad and the Charles Ray Experience.

Max Hechter is the former host of "The Fringe Element" at KPFK-FM in Los Angeles and used to program at KALX-FM in Berkeley from 1983 to 1992. He currently works as an epidemiologist at UCLA. He can be contacted at maxfuhechter@yahoo.com

Born in the second half of the 20th Century, Richard Henderson has written about music, design and fashion for The Wire, Billboard, Escape, The Beat, Soma, Psychotronic and Murder Dog and has provided archival mastering for over two dozen compilations of vintage African pop music released on the Original Music label. He is currently a music editor for feature films.

Elizabeth Herndon is a writer and musician in the Los Angeles area. She also handles music publishing administrative duties for many of the musicians in this compendium, and in doing so is kept busier than one might imagine.

Tim Hinely lives in Portland, OR (after 28 years in his native NJ and 10 years in Santa Rosa, CA). He publishes his own zine, Dagger, which he has been doing for the past 16 years. To contact Tim and/or check out a copy of Dagger please write to PO Box 820102, Portland, OR 97282-1102 or email at daggerboy@prodigy.net.