Cory M. Linstrum is a Bay Area-based musician, writer and music historian. His written work has appeared in Ugly Things, Human Being Lawnmower, as liner notes on record jackets and in his self-published fanzine Savage Damage Digest. Among other projects he is currently at work on an in depth history of the Berkeley 1970's punk and new wave scenes. He lives in Alameda, California with his wife and two children.