Publisher's Synopsis
"Writing about music is hard--and this book proves it 101 times over. It's happened to all of us who read about rock music: you come across a piece about a hot music scene and the writer thinks they're being clever be exclaiming, 'There must be something in the water!' Or maybe a couple of musicians have started a new project that's 'risen from the ashes' of their previous band. There's a million of those dumb things that rock critics say. Well, OK, maybe just a hundred and one. And they're all duly immortalized in legendary rock journalist Michael Azerrad's Rock critic law: 101 unbreakable rules for writing badly about music. Fed up, in a bemused sort of way, with all these well-worn tropes of the trade, Azerrad began tweeting them with the hashtag #RockCriticLaw, and the author's righteous tirade struck a chord with both readers and writers of rock criticism, who greeted each new dispatch with gales of derisive laughter or self-flagel
