Legs McNeil
Legs McNeil is an American music journalist, a former editor at Spin and editor-in-chief of Nerve Magazine. McNeil is the co-author (with Gillian McCain) of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk.
Why We Still Love ‘Please Kill Me’
Gillian McCain told me, “If I wasn’t an author, I think I’d want to be a therapist.” Should she choose to switch fields, McCain is off to a good start. Because with the book “Please Kill Me,” an oral history of the development of punk rock music, McCain and co-author...
Read MoreLegs McNeil Shows Me the Secret of Punk Rock Innovation
“The more we fear the future, the more we recycle the past.” Legs McNeil Growing up, my knowledge of punk rock music was limited to dancing to the Ramones’ “I Want To Be Sedated” at United Synagogue Youth events and watching videos of the Clash’s “Rock the Casbah” on MTV. Later in life, as I...
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