Politics is Crime. Crime is Politics. Discuss… Carl F. Gauze reviews Meditations on Crime, the book half of Harper Simon’s super-collaborative art and music project.

Girlie Action Media has announced Meditations on Crime, a collaborative new album and art book, due out September 23

Detroit Stories (Earmusic). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Punk heroes unite to give a rowdy look at the classic L.A.M.F. album 40 years down the road.

Detroit in the 1960’s was a hard city going through hard times. The music that come out of Detroit was incubated at the Grande Ballroom. Wayne Kramer (MC5), Ted Nugent and many others remember the wild times.

The Detroit Rebellion of ‘67 EP. Review by Carl F Gauze.

The once vital city of Detroit gave us the auto industry and punk rock. Detroit Rock City shares the heights – and the depths – of the Motor City. James Mann says “Kick out the jams!”

Snake Oil (Cleopatra Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Heaven’s End/ Fade Out/ The World In Your Eyes/ A Gilded Eternity (Reactor/Revolver). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Brett Callwood’s comprehensive book on the criminally overlooked Stooges doesn’t, this time, focus completely on Iggy Pop.

Music’s not for Everyone (K). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Carl F Gauze reviews this extremely thorough biography of an obscure but groundbreaking musician from the glory days of Sunset Strip.

Hippies! Free love! Boobs! MC5! So why is this “lost classic” such a bummer, man?

Hawkwind Triad (Neurot). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Patti Smith is artfully captured over 11 years, showing America’s punk poet as mother, daughter, rebel, and widow. James Mann finds it a beautiful and captivating portrait of one of our greatest artists.

Peter Wild and a group of authors take on the challenge of making literature out of Sonic Youth’s noisy, chaotic, shimmering music. S D Green has some warnings for fans of Sonic Youth who may be intrigued.

The Points (Mud Memory). Review by Jen Cray.

Rip your shirt off and check out Iggy Pop’s shake appeal… Scott Adams tells Ink 19 The Stooges are really big in Belgium right now.

Sudden Departure Vultures (Uprising). Review by Jen Cray.