Joe Molloy Interview
Joe Molloy is a writer and DJ from Detroit, currently working as an educator. He is the author of Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music, a book which is “informed by the theoretical writing of the late music journalist Mark Fisher, particularly his notion of acid communism, which is a project dedicated to breaking out of myopia and building a better world.”
How did you get to where you are today, professionally?
Music has given my life meaning longer than I can remember. My parents tell me that as a young child, I would come alive to the sounds of Jimmy Eat World and Ozzy Osbourne. Flashing forward a few years, when I was 19, I was lucky enough to write for Hot Press Magazine’s editorial department in Dublin for 5 months. That experience put me right in the field interviewing musicians, covering gigs, and reviewing albums. It was very surreal. Then in my final year of undergrad, I wrote a paper on Detroit techno which got accepted into an academic conference in Ann Arbor. Around that same time, I was also virtually volunteering at Repeater Books. The publisher’s co-founder, the late writer Mark Fisher, was my hero. At the time, they were launching a radio station called Repeater Radio. I offered to help in any way I could, and the small team there was kind enough to let me in. It was that experience which directly led into the book.
Can you please briefly describe the book?