Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Introduction, or How I Became a Rock Critic; The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll; Albums; The Return of the Wichita Lineman; Glen Campbell's Meet Glen Campbell; Seeing the Light; Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Lie Down in the Light; Confession & Hits (Hits & Confession); Delta Goodrem's Delta; Setting Herself Apart; Sarah Blasko's As Day Follows Night; Modern Times and Times Before That; Bob Dylan's Modern Times; Turn Around: You Weren't Invited; The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones; The Exford Dregs; Augie March's Moo, You Bloody Choir; Lost Women Found

The discovery of Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier & 'Connie' ConverseEmbers Re-Flamed; Meg Baird's Dear Companion; Nihilistic Ear-Worms; Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have It So Much Better; Back to College; The Hampdens' The Last Party & Vampire Weekend's Vampire Weekend; Thoughts in the Middle of a Career; Paul Kelly's Songs from the South; An Afternoon at Rough Trade; Worms Don't Dance; Cat Power's The Greatest & Beth Orton's Comfort of Strangers; Sunshine On My Brain; The pop genius of The Monkees; In Search of a Songwriter; Welcome to the New Neil; Neil Diamond's 12 Songs; Frank's Back

Frank Black's HoneycombThe Banjo Is the New Stratocaster; Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson's Rattlin' Bones & The Darling Downs' From One to Another; Love Goes to a Building on Fire; The Shins' Wincing the Night Away & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Some Loud Thunder; Slippin'; AC/DC's Black Ice; God Save His Soul; The Sleepy Jackson's Personality: One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird; Bryan Looks Back; Bryan Ferry's Dylanesque; Nature Boy; Antony and the Johnsons' The Crying Light; Books; Pop Producer in B-Grade Movie Actress Murder Trial

Mick Brown's Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil SpectorThe Uncorking; Mark Seymour's Thirteen Tonne Theory; The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion; Joe Boyd's White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s; Concerts; Soft Touch; Nana Mouskouri; Tales from Pig City; The Saints; Heroes (Just for One Day); The Countdown Spectacular; Bowled Again ...; The Big Day Out; Strangers in the Night; Roberta Flack & Leonard Cohen; Rat-Pack Paul; Casey Bennetto's Keating!; On Grant; A True Hipster; Demon Days; Other Writings; 2274 Words of Praise; Guy Clark's Old No. 1

Who Loves The Sun?The Velvet Underground & The Go-Betweens; Tired and Emotional; Bob Dylan's Time out of Mind; Going for a Song; Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?'; Fiction; The Coronation of Normie Rowe; The 10 Bands I Wish I'd Been In