Mad World by Jonathan Bernstein

You may know me as co-host of Feedback, the morning show on Sirius XM's all-talk-music Volume channel, or as a guest host on the classic alternative channel, First Wave. I'm also the co-author of Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s (Abrams; April 2014), written with my friend and one-time Spin colleague Jonathan Bernstein. A true labor of love, Mad World is a fun, full-color salute to the music of Duran Duran, The Smiths, New Order, Tears For Fears, Depeche Mode, Human League, OMD, Echo and the Bunnymen, Adam and the Ants, and many more! In all-new interviews, the artists discuss their breakthrough hits, along with the culture of the times, the highlights of their careers, the downfalls, the fights, the money, the madness and, of course, the hair! Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes penned the foreword, and fellow new-wave obsessive Moby, the afterword. Jonathan and I met during the grunge years, when he was a senior writer and I was an intern at Spin magazine. I went on to edit magazines -- think: Teen People, Us Weekly, Entertainment Weekly and YM -- and write features for the likes of RollingStone.com, Yahoo! Music, The Guardian, Women's Health, and Yahoo! Shine. I'm also a pop culture expert, having been featured in CNN's original series The Eighties and The Nineties, Good Morning America, Today, MTV, VH-1 and much more. I live in Weehawken, NJ -- which is also my hometown, and where I once ran a Too Much Information: the Definitive Duranzine out of my parents' apartment. My husband, John, and cats, Baxter and Little Boy, love the eighties almost as much as I do. (Actually, my husband may even love them more!)