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For interview requests and review copies contact me [AT] mikebrandvold.com<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA sonic wail of a tale about the youthful beginnings of one of the Mount Rushmore \u2018heads\u2019 of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll journalism. I loved it.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Joel Gion of The Brian Jonestown Massacre<\/p>\n \u201cLoudmouth is, as advertised, a loud and brash trip that takes you through the hellish halls of childhood and adolescence before delivering you to the sweet salvation of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll music and all that rides alongside it. The story is majorly compelling\u2014funny, tender, and very, very honest. Read this book immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks.\u201d \u2014Craig Finn of The Hold Steady<\/p>\n \u201cIn prose that\u2019s beautiful, when it\u2019s not hilarious, this noisy, nostalgic novel tells how an excitable boy from a darkly conservative family survived childhood and then rock \u2019n\u2019\u00a0roll. It\u2019s a wild ride with some amazing characters \u2014 including a few you might recognize \u2014 and I\u2019m in awe.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Jaan Uhelszki, former Creem editor; writer, producer of Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine<\/p>\n \u201cThis picaresque, coming-of-age novel, about a boy who looks for answers in rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, but finds them in the love of an extraordinary woman, is sad, serious, funny and, in the end, ridiculously moving.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Sylvie Simmons, New York Times bestselling author of Face It: Debbie Harry a nd I\u2019m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n Pre-Order Loudmouth:\u00a0<\/p>\n SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 29, 2020) \u2014 A lifelong rock & roll obsessive, Robert Duncan was barely out of his teens when he gave up singing in bands and started as a writer for the influential, icon-smashing music magazine Creem, becoming its managing editor at the ripe old age of 22. He went on to contribute to Rolling Stone, Circus, Life, and dozens of other publications. In the process, Duncan became a rock Zelig: he shared tall tales and fried shrimp with a young, scrawny Bruce Springsteen, while driving him around Cleveland; he introduced the Clash\u2019s Mick Jones and Joe Strummer to a broken-down piano player of dubious ability, leading to a hilariously disastrous recording session with the band; he worked alongside his friend Lester Bangs and witnessed his tragic spiral, before discovering the legendary critic dead, at 33, of an OD in the apartment next door. These experiences, and many others, provide the fuel for Robert Duncan\u2019s debut novel, LOUDMOUTH, a rip-snortin\u2019 coming-of-age story that will be published by Three Rooms Press on October 6, 2020.<\/p>\n The novel is the story of Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City. Left to his own devices by neglectful parents, he spends much of his childhood shadowing his older, criminally-inclined half-brother and roaming New York with hard-drinking teenage pals. Tom eventually finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band, and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that invented punk\u2014only to return to New York, at the height of the 1970s bacchanal, and crash. But it isn\u2019t music that saves him. It\u2019s a soft-spoken painter, who turns out to be the most outrageous character of all.<\/p>\n With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids, LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the punks, hippies, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world.<\/p>\n I encourage you to check out LOUDMOUTH. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to speak with Robert Duncan, have questions, or need more information. Thank you for your consideration.<\/p>\n LOUDMOUTH: A Novel<\/strong> Publication date: October 6, 2020 Trade Paperback Original: Ebook: Audiobook<\/p>\n Published by Three Rooms Press threeroomspress.com\n<\/p>\n About Robert Duncan:<\/strong> Recent in-depth interview:\u00a0<\/strong> Other experience:<\/strong> Publishing history: Social media: <\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About Michael Brandvold Marketing<\/strong> Michael\u2019s expertise was instrumental in growing and managing the KISS online community from its inception in 1998 to an enterprise generating millions of dollars every year and engaging more than a half-million visitors every month.<\/p>\n In addition to assisting with the band\u2019s online community, Michael was also instrumental in the creation of the VIP Platinum Ticket Program, which was first implemented during KISS\u2019 2003 US tour. The concept granted the band\u2019s biggest fans face-to-face access to the band, premium seating at shows, and exclusive autographed merchandise.<\/p>\n Over the years, Michael\u2019s expertise has been put to use for a number of well-known companies like Universal Music Group, BMG\/Sanctuary Records, Rhino Records, Playboy, HighVolMusic, Dark Star Records, Roadrunner Records, and Nuclear Blast Records.<\/p>\n In 2014, Michael published a revised edition of his book, KISS School of Marketing: 11 Lessons Learned While Working with KISS. The digital book quickly climbed to the number one spot on Noisetrade\u2019s Business & Finance and Arts & Entertainment lists.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.MichaelBrandvold.com<\/p>\n For all press inquiries, contact:<\/p>\n MICHAEL BRANDVOLD MARKETING & MANAGEMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For interview requests and review copies contact me [AT] mikebrandvold.com \u201cA sonic wail of a tale about the youthful beginnings of one of the Mount Rushmore \u2018heads\u2019 of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll journalism. 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\nby Robert Duncan<\/p>\n
\n248 pages<\/p>\n
\n978-1-941110-92-8; $15.00<\/p>\n
\n978-1-941110-93-5; $9.99<\/p>\n
\nROBERT DUNCAN is author of The Noise: Notes from a Rock \u2018n\u02bc Roll Era, Only the Good Die Young: The Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll Book of the Dead, and Kiss, a satirical biography of the band. He was story consultant, as well as interview subject and voiceover, for the documentary, \u201cCreem: America\u2019s Only Rock & Roll Magazine,\u201d which premiered last year at SXSW and will be streaming on Netflix and other major platforms in July. He has worked as a singer, songwriter, and record producer, and is founder of the three-decade-old ad and design agency Duncan Channon and its Tip Records subsidiary. He was born to a transplanted southern family in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, but grew up mostly in New York. He currently lives with his wife, the artist and rock photographer Roni Hoffman, in Fairfax, California.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/threeroomspress.com\/2020\/07\/a-lot-of-it-is-fact-but-all-of-its-the-truth-an-interview-with-robert-duncan\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nRobert has worked at Duncan Channon, an advertising and design company, which he founded, for 30 years. Before that:
\n\u2022 Managing Editor, Creem Magazine, Birmingham, MI
\n\u2022 Freelance contributor and\/or columnist, Rolling Stone, Circus, Life magazine, Gig, Hit Parader, Addicted to Noise and many other music and non-music pubs, online and off.
\n\u2022 Usher, Village Gate, NYC, 1973, National Lampoon\u2019s Lemmings (with John Belushi, Christopher Guest, Chevy Chase)
\n\u2022 Lead singer, rhythm guitar, songwriter, producer: The Lanterns, Sky King, 3DayBig&Tall, Toll Sergeants, as well as solo
\n\u2022 Producer and songwriter: Donnie Finnell \u2014 Self-Portrait
\n\u2022 Founder, Tip Records (USA), with releases from Gary Wilson, Donnie Finnell and Easy Street<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The Noise: Notes from a Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Era, nonfiction, Ticknor & Fields\/Houghton Mifflin, 1984
\n\u2022 Kiss, biography, Popular Library, 1978
\n\u2022 Only the Good Die Young: The Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Book of the Dead, nonfiction Crown, 1986<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Pre-Order Loudmouth:\u00a0
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\nLinkedIn:\u00a0https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rduncan\/<\/a>
\nYouTube (Loudmouth Novel channel):\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTwyRWzoTAh6rozbZ9zZ1Ag\/<\/a>
\nGoodreads:\u00a0https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/13932643.Robert_Duncan<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFrom working with up-and-coming independent artists of all genres to overseeing online marketing for major acts like KISS, Britney Spears, and Dream Theater, Michael Brandvold\u2019s impact on the modern music industry is without question. In addition to spearheading digital strategy creation and online social media management for bands, he has helped create marketing strategies that have made millions of dollars for clients.<\/p>\n