How Soon Is Now author Richard King announces new book, Original Rockers

Music writer, Richard King has revealed that he is to release an exploration of the independent record store, from its nostalgic heyday to its place in the the current, post-HMV world.

Co-editor of music journal Loops as well as How Soon Is Now, a study of UK record labels and the eccentric figures behind them, King has worked at the heart of the independent music industry for the past twenty years.

Original Rockers: A Meditation on the Disappearing Landscape of Record Shops is “a story about excitement and discovery and indifference to market forces”, says Faber’s creative director, Lee Brackstone – an epitaph for the “crucible for the hopes, dreams, and more likely fantasies of a fair slice of the community”, once omnipresent on any British high street.

Released Autumn 2015 via Faber, you can read an extract of Original Rockers here.

[via FACT]