Ah, Cleveland. The terminally dreary Midwest metropolis has always played a critical role in American popular music, producing a pantheon of disparate aesthetic extremists (Lux Interior, Little Jimmy Scott, Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and serving as the commercial and spiritual stomping ground where the Big Beat first broke into our mainstream psyche. Well, heads up, kiddies, because when the Cleveland Confidential Book Tour hits town, it'll deliver an appropriately grim and antiglamorous load of frantic, deep-inside punk rock verity. With some of C-Town's most mad-dog renegades — the illustrious former Dead Boy Cheetah Chrome, the Pagans' Mike Hudson — reading from their... More >>>