Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, in the course of which he charted and defined the aesthetics of heavy metal and punk. He was treated as a peer by such brash visionaries as Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Captain Beefheart, The Clash, Debbie Harry, and other luminaries.

Let It Blurt is a scrupulously researched account of Lester Bangs's fascinating (if often tawdry and unappetizing) life story, as well as a window on rock criticism and rock culture in their most turbulent and creative years. It includes a never-before-published piece by Bangs, the hilarious "How to Be a Rock Critic," in which he reveals the secrets of his dubious, freeloading trade.

紐澤西州紐澤西市齣生，恰是披頭四到美國發展的那年。隨後不久，吉姆·迪洛葛迪斯開始提齣他對搖滾樂的簡介。目前是《芝加哥太陽報》的流行音樂評論傢，同時也在《Penthouse》、《Guitar World》、《World of Wrestling》等雜誌和Launch、Iron Minds等網站發錶評論。另外在WXRT-FM電颱一起跟Greg Kot——另外一對主持人是Gene Siskel（芝加哥論壇報）跟他的《芝加哥太陽報》同事Roger Ebert——主持全世界唯一的搖滾現場脫口秀節目[Sound Opinions]。他的第一本書《Kaleidoscope Eyes: Psychedelic Rock from the '60s to the '90s》於1996年由Citadel Underground發行美國版，英國版則由Fourth Estate,Ltd.發行。大傢都知道他老婆跟他女兒梅樂蒂常常對他很火大，因為他每次都在那裏練習打鼓，或是聽Wire或The Flaming Lips等樂團時音量都開到很大聲，她們就迴以Barbar Streisand及[The Big Comfy Couch]裏的《Loonette the Clown》歌麯進行報復。