100 Cassettes started life as one hundred hand drawn cassette covers for an installation at the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona. This book features one hundred chapters on artists and the inner life of music.Find early entries of abstraction on Alice Cooper, Earl Sweatshirt, Talk Talk, and Prince as well as non fiction meditations on Tony Conrad, Black Sabbath, The Fall, and The Sun City Girls.Featuring a foreword by Jonathan Lethem and an afterword by Allen Callaci, the book winds around autobiographical information, the rich culture of Southern California from 1969 to the present day, and all musical points in between.