Golden's work focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women At Factory Records, her first book, was an oral history that centers the voices of women in the story of the legendary Factory Records.[4][5] It was published in the UK by White Rabbit in May 2023 and released in the US in February 2024.[6][7][8]I Thought I Heard You Speak was named a Rough Trade Book of the Year 2023 and was longlisted for the 2024 Penderyn Prize.[9][10]
Golden's second book, Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats is a biography of feminist punk band The Raincoats, published in 2025 by Da Capo in the United States and White Rabbit in the United Kingdom.[11]Shouting Out Loud was named a Telegraph Book of the Year[12] and a Rough Trade Book of the Year in 2025.[13]
She is currently writing Queercore for the 33 1/3 Genre series[14] and the authorized biography of Mark Lanegan.
As a cultural studies scholar, Golden has lectured on a range of topics from contemporary cinema to public writing. She has given seminars at the Coolidge Corner Theatre and taught at several universities. Her work as an archivist and rare book collector has been honored by the Library of Congress.[15][16]
Bibliography
Books
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women At Factory Records. White Rabbit, 2023. ISBN 978-1399606189
Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats. Da Capo/White Rabbit, 2025. ISBN 978-0306835902
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