Description: Once you’ve collected every 7 inch from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and become so well-versed in the interpersonal dynamics of every hardcore band that there’s nothing more to learn, what’s a punk to do?

Try jazz, recommends Bob Suren. No, really. Suren, who wrote Crate Digger about his life and work in punk, turns his obsessive gaze onto another form of rebellious, improvisational outsider music, but this time with more sax.

Verdict: What does Dixieland have in common with D.R.I.? Did Charles Mingus write the first punk song? And who was the Butthole Surfer of jazz? Suren answers these questions and many more.

Reading his irreverent guide to jazz, filled with punk references and colorful language, is more fun than getting arrested for vandalism. Learn about the surprising history and scandalous etymology of jazz, explore its connections to punk, and take in biographical sketches of over 25 notable artists—with plenty of recommendations thrown in for your listening pleasure.

Personally, I have been a fan of author Bob Suren’s writing since his brilliant band Failure Face was introduced to me! I mean, for gawd’s sake, surely they must be one of the most underrated ’90s hardcore powerhouse groups of their time, but I digress!

Weird Music That Goes on Forever: A Punk’s Guide to Loving Jazz is a rather excellent, and wholly unexpected, in truth, overview of the jazz scene from the early days up to about the mid-’80s and is throughout an informative and thoroughly entertaining read.

Impassioned and enthralling in equal measures, the book lovingly serves as a great guide throughout the genre - and rightly titles the book accordingly - and is one that will provide all you ever needed to know (or had forgotten) about each recording highlighted.

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