Michael Heumann

Michael Heumann is from Riverside, California. He holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside. He wrote his dissertation on sound and technology in 20th century literature. You can read it at Haunted Ink. He first began studying music in the 80s, influenced by both the indie-punk bands of that decade (The Replacements and The Minutemen, especially) and by the great music of earlier decades (Dylan, Stones, Stax/Volt, Robert Johnson).