PositiveThe Washington Post\"Ward’s writing is deeply researched, but conversational in tone. He nerds-out just the right amount, moving briskly from hit to hit and craze to craze, slowing down only to impart a few choice anecdotes ... favors facts over drama, but that shouldn’t suggest that the book is a snooze. Rather, Ward’s faithful documentation of the genre’s more obscure corners helps to point out that, early on, rock was weird.\
