"Owings is the Renaissance Man lurking in the shadows of the underground rock Renaissance."--"LA Times " "Highly recommended as superior toilet reading for masochists who like music too much."--"mojo " "The book is super packed with yuks...the book is mostly very funny and worth buying." --"Vice.com " "You don't get extra credit for owning more than one copy of Radiohead's latest humcore opus. How do we know? By testing ourselves with this encyclopedic, tongue-in-Will-Oldham's bearded-cheek series of indie rock quizzes."--"Entertainment Weekly ""Every time you flip through the book you'll find some new piece of minutiae that will have you laughing out loud."--"The Agit Reader ""The truth is, there are not very many people writing this style of satirical culture book anymore."--"Slug Magazine " "Something laugh-out-loud funny pops up nearly every four or five sentences."--"Blurt Online " ""The Indie Cred Test" is the most dense expression of an unnecessarily self-obsessed culture you may ever see."--"The Daily Swarm " "Pointlessly insular and gut-bustingly hilarious."--Spin "Henry Owings has been fearlessly and amusingly taking the piss out of rock 'n' roll for nearly 20 years."--"Pitchfork "