“The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass” by Aug Stone (Stone Soup; 270 pgs., $20) At its foundation, this “Ballad” is an expanded parody of the hunt-down-the-truth-of-obscure-1980s-bands historical analyses. The ur-text for this is Michael Azerrad’s “Our Band Could Be Your Life,” which played it straight with devoted coverage of the likes of Hüsker Dü and […]