William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll

The ultimate guide to Burroughs as counter-cultural contagion – David KeenanThere’s a brilliant idea behind Casey Rae’s William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll, which is that if you simply follow Burroughs through the rock ‘n’ roll years you’ll see him achieve a flickering ubiquity - lurking here, eavesdropping there, photobombing the whole parade. It becomes a kind of alternative history * New York Times *A timely reminder of the Pope Of Dope’s influence on good music as well as tedious transgressive sludge. “Once you start looking, Burroughs is everywhere,” Rae writes. “It’s like a game of Where’s WaMo? with a killer soundtrack.’ * Uncut *

Casey Rae is the director of music licensing for SiriusXM and a longtime music critic whose work has been featured in a wide array of publications. His commentary on technology’s impact on creators has appeared on NPR and in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Billboard, and other media outlets. An adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a course developer for Berklee Online, Rae is also a musician and played with several bands in the 1990s.

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