Dan LeRoy is the Director of Writing and Publishing at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, USA. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Village Voice, Esquireonline, and Alternative Press. He is the author of The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (Bloomsbury, 2006), The Greatest Music Never Sold (2007), For Whom the Cowbell Tolls (2014), and Liberty's Lions: The Catholic Revolutionaries Who Established America (2021).

Foreword by Nick Rhodes: Timing is EverythingPrologue
1. From Boats to Babies: How Drum Machines Began
2. The Rhythm Aces
3. Beat Brothers: Sly Stone and J.J. Cale
4. "The Machines Are Fighting Back"
5. Teutonic Sonics: Germany and Programmed Rhythm
6. Turn the Beat Around: Eno, Disco and the Drum Machine
7. Our Drum Machine Could Be Your Band
8. The Drum Machines That Weren't
9. Punch the Clock: The Joy and Pain of Drum Programming
10. Without Me, You Would Not Even Have Thought of Writing This Book
11. Give the (Electronic) Drummer Some
12. Inside and Outside the Box: The Linn Revolution
13. "Have You Seen This New Drum Machine? Shit!"
14. 808 State
15. Hip Hop's Electric Guitar
16. Worker Bees of the DMX
17. Destination Emulation
18. Mr. K's Last Laugh
19. The Mammals Arrive: The Linn 9000 and the End of the Drum Machine
20. Computer Love
21. Time Out of Time
Appendix: I Am EchoAcknowledgments