Book Release Party! Celebrate the publication of BUST A MOVE with author Peter Relic at Delicious Pizza
Join us at Delicious Pizza for a party celebrating the release of BUST A MOVE: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, and the Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered Pop on Tues. June 30 7pm PDT
Delicious Vinyl & Kensington Books welcomes you to the Bust A Move publication day party at Delicious Pizza 5419 W. Adams Blvd. LA, CA 90016. Meet author Peter Relic as we celebrate the release of Bust A Move: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl And The Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered Pop. Purchase a signed book and receive a special tote bag and turntable slip mat! Special guests DJs Icy Ice & DJ Promote.
BUST A MOVE: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, and the Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered Pop will be published by Kensington Books on June 30, 2026.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Peter Relic is a journalist who has worked on staff and written for the most prominent hip-hop publications of the past 25 years, including VIBE, XXL, Rap Pages, and the Beastie Boys’ highly influential zine Grand Royal. As associate editor at VIBE, he wrote the magazine’s first stories on Eminem and Serena Williams, and his XXL magazine story on the Geto Boys was anthologized in Best American Music Writing, edited by Mary Gaitskill. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, Architectural Digest, and The Plain Dealer. He lives in Georgia, where he is senior writer, public relations,at Savannah College of Art and Design.
“Hip-hop is a music that contains multitudes, as Peter Relic’s immensely readable Bust a Move proves. Relic lets his attention roam freely from funk to punk, electro to pop, hair metal to Lil Nas X. Along the way, the author’s wry prose style makes this that rarest of rarities, an important book that is blessedly free of self-importance.
It seems crazy that nobody has written a book about Delicious Vinyl before. Maybe nobody has been crazy enough to try. As Relic observes, the label’s legacy has been overlooked ‘like a meteor so bright it had created a blind spot.’ Not anymore.”
Rob Kenner, author of The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life andTimes of Nipsey Hussle
“Throughout the 1980s, hip-hop had stormed pop culture’s citadel, yet it didn’t take over until it came out West—where Matt Dike, Mike Ross, and the artists who built Delicious Vinyl were concocting an undeniable sound. Like the big hits they delivered, Peter Relic’s narrative is well crafted, deep with stars, and full of life. Bust a Move perfectly captures hip-hop’s dawn-breaking energy just at the moment it came of age.”
Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
“Bust a Move tells the extraordinary story of two young music producers who unleashed new sounds upon the world with their record label Delicious Vinyl, ensuring LA’s hip-hop scene would match, or surpass, the scene in New York City, as master storyteller Peter Relic zooms smoothly from the big social picture to the most intimate, personal details that offer a front-row seat of a scene as it simmered, boiled, and exploded. Relic’s account of visiting the reclusive Matt Dike at his home is itself worth the price of the book—a killer read.”
James Lough, author of This Ain’t No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980–1995