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This isn’t your usual nostalgic trip through dusty vinyl, favourite bands and chart-topping trivia.
This is the other side of the mixtape.
Siôn Smith grew up under the spell of rock ’n’ roll, raised on posters, power chords and pop culture promises that life could be more than just work and sleep. From glam-soaked club nights to garden-shed epiphanies, from forgotten record shops to magazines that ignited on sight: When The Music’s Over traces the jagged path of a life shaped, and sometimes shattered, by music.
It’s a book about what music does to us and asks the biggest question of all: do we create pop-culture or does pop-culture create us?
It’s about the people we become because of it. The things we carry, the ghosts we choose to dance with and what happens when the songs stop playing and you’re left with nothing but an eerie silence.
Funny, raw, and fiercely honest, this is a love story. Not to a person, but to a feeling. The one you get when the lights go down and your favourite song kicks in.
NEW BOOK COMING: SEPT 31st, 2025
In 1967, four Beat writers began exchanging letters about strange encounters with beings who seemed to have stepped straight out of the future of television and into the real world. What began as casual correspondence spiraled into a chronicle of evolving consciousness, media disruption, and the dissolution of personal identity.
Danny Kowalski sees silver-suited figures performing "upgrades" in downtown Denver. Marcus Delacroix hitches a ride with two monster-hunting brothers on a Kansas backroad. Solomon "Big Daddy" Rothstein finds enlightenment pulsing from a flickering TV set. Theodore Nakamura warns of control systems disguised as entertainment. Reality is beginning to unravel.
Discovered bound in twine in a secondhand bookshop in San Francisco, these letters document the transformation of four literary outsiders into something else entirely: a shared awareness, a broadcast mind, a mythic echo calling itself The Electric Dharma.
Part spiritual memoir, part media theory, part beatnik prophecy, this strange, funny, and mind-bending collection invites you to tune in and drop through.
The signal is live. The revolution is electric.
It’s your move.
