The Home Recording Handbook in Bloomington, MN

The Home Recording Handbook by Martin Newell is part memoir, part love letter to pop music.
It is 170 pages expressing the Godfather of Lo-fi's dedication on music making with an independent spirit.
"This is not a home recording handbook," says Martin Newell of his unhandily-titled
The Home Recording Handbook
. Instead, it's the long-overdue completion of a book that was begun and then lost in 1983. It's a set of salty anecdotes from a life working in pop music. It's a broadside to the music business. It's a short inventory of inexpensive musical tools. It's a 'when not to' and 'why not to' rather than a 'how to'. It's a dispatch from the sidelines and a love letter to popular song. It's a brief guide to the pleasures and perils of recording music at home, by the musician, songwriter and founder of the cult English lo-fi group, the Cleaners from Venus, Martin Newell - a leading figure in the history of cassette culture and godfather of DIY music-making. It does happen to contain some tips on home recording. But it's probably not a handbook.