Music

Or: What do Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield,and a one-armed pianist have in common?

Author Nick Tosches celebrates rock’s pre-Elvis pioneers.

Mike Ness makes an album without so much Social Distortion.

Roddy Bottum finds his innocence with Imperial Teen.

Hole moves from the slums to the sunshine.

How Donald Harrison learned to fit anything into a jazz context.

Lucinda Williams’s Car Wheels roll on a perfect road.