JOE CARDUCCI is best known as the author of two books of music history, Rock and The Pop Narcotic, and Enter Naomi - SST, L.A. and All That., and another on film history, Stone Male - Requiem for The Living Picture, plus the collection, Life Against Dementia - Essays, Reviews, Interviews 1975-2011. Carducci was born in Merced, California in 1955 and grew up in Naperville, Illinois. He quit college after 1974, moved to Chicago and was first published in the Tucson anarchist paper, The Match!. He moved to Hollywood in 1976 to write screenplays but got waylaid by punk rock and the west coast record business. From 1978 Joe Carducci helped build independent record distribution for the punk era at Systematic Record Distribution, working with labels like Dangerhouse, Slash, Rough Trade and Factory, and bands like The Dead Kennedys, The Birthday Party and Flipper.

Later he worked closely with the SST bands Meat Puppets, Minutemen, and co-produced the first four LPs by Saint Vitus. Joe resumed writing in the mid-eighties, principally screenplays and occasional books or issues of the blog, The New Vulgate. Carducci has lived in Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Berkeley, Minocqua, and Laramie, working in and around music, radio, film, publishing and real estate. His books are available now via Redoubt Press.