Promotional Information

An excerpt of Between The Records was published in Playboy on May 4th, 2019: https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-fiction-between-the-records

Rare Bird is releasing the 2nd album from Julian's band, The Natural Selection, in conjunction with Between The Records, this album features liner notes from Britt Daniel of Spoon

Spoon covered The Natural Selection's song "Don't You Evah"

Julian is the owner of The Oracle Club in Long Island City, Queens

About the Author

Julian Tepper is the author of two novels, Balls (Rare Bird) and Ark (Dzanc). As the member of the band The Natural History, he recorded two albums and co-wrote the hit song, "Don't You Evah" for the legendary indie-group, Spoon. He lives in New York.

Reviews

"Julian Tepper has written an autobiographical slice of late 90s/early 00’s rock n roll life reflecting a period both he and I lived thru (and, happily, survived) with such ease that I recognized this world immediately, intimately. Within chapters sequenced like the tracks on a vinyl LP two brothers work to get their band off the ground as well as trying to understand the fractured relationship with their shambling, estranged father. Kindred ‘workers in song’, as Leonard Cohen termed it, both father and sons are involved in the elusive game of chasing a hit record—or even a modicum of recognition—while also trying to see if there are any ties left holding them all together. This is a book about family, about rock n roll aspirations and about a few of the many avenues such lives might take."
—Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth