In many ways, More Fun in the New World marks the end of X's classic run of albums. It's the last truly great X album. The last one produced by the Doors' Ray Manzarek. And, as the band's first true ...

John Doe of X didn’t want “More Fun In The New World,” his book with Tom DeSavia about the L.A. punk world in the early and mid ’80s to focus on him or his band, but X, which includes ...

My ears are still buzzing from the X show at the Crystal Ballroom the other night. There's not a lot of decent books about the LA punk scene of the late '70s and early '80s, unlike hyped-to-death ...

"More Fun in the New World," a new book with tales of the 1980s from John Doe, Maria McKee, the Go-Gos and others, is a rock must-read.

The original lineup’s last hurrah, and you can hear a creeping ambivalence in places. But 1983 afforded the group political inspiration: The folky “The New World” and the art-punky “I […] ...