Shine like a new Dime: Tom Waits' Rain Dogs at 40 | The Quietus Tom Waits' Rain Dogs was the antithesis of Reagan's America, giving voice to a choir of NYC outsiders even as gentrification was taking over.

I wrote about Tom Waits for the Quietus.
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

This is a fine survey of a writer I enjoy somewhat shamefully, with the aside that when opposition political parties are burgled here it doesn't result in Watergate but a couple of scenes in a thriller

Haha, well put!

John le Carré Made Great Art Out of Cold War Ideology John le Carré was one of the great postwar novelists, converting the experience of Cold War espionage into brilliant works of literature. Yet he did so without really questioning the ruling doctrines ...

Thought-provoking and in depth Le Carré analysis by @tobylmanning.bsky.social @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social

jacobin.com/2025/04/john...

John le Carré Made Great Art Out of Cold War Ideology John le Carré was one of the great postwar novelists, converting the experience of Cold War espionage into brilliant works of literature. Yet he did so without really questioning the ruling doctrines ...

I wrote this: jacobin.com/2025/04/john...

Reissue of the Week: Tangerine Dream's Phaedra | The Quietus Toby Manning tracks the movement of Tangerine Dream during 1974, out of the rural and into the urban, out of space and down to earth

I wrote this for The Quietus on my favourite topic, Krautrock. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

‘Rock and pop music were the unexpected consequences of the working-class entering history’ BRETT GREGORY speaks with TOBY MANNING, author of Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music

Excellent. My recent Serious Feather Arts interview with the journalist and author, @tobylmanning.bsky.social, about 50s/60s pop and rock has been published by the UK national newspaper, The Morning Star 😎 @repeaterbooks.bsky.social www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rock...

Come to this in Walthamstow on Weds.

Come for the music and the Marx, stay for the Molotov cocktails.

I'm doing this on Monday evening. Come along and blindside me with a question! kmflett.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/t...

Oh and can you link me to his profile too? (Assuming he's OK with that)

Thanks Ian, I'll check that out.

This Thursday join @tobylmanning.bsky.social at the iconic Dublin Castle in Camden Town for a Rock 'N' Roll Book Club rendition of Toby's latest book "Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music" in conversation with Alison Beale!

Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/644394/

My first-ever BlueSky post is, inevitably, self-promotional.