Overview :Race, history, culture, and entertainment collide in this bracing and personal examination of black performance and the complicated, ongoing... Read More
Overview :In Then Sings My Soul, Book 2, Robert Morgan again delves beyond the songwriter's inspiration and explains the real-life events, the tribula... Read More
Overview :Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the ... Read More
Overview :One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festiva... Read More
Overview :"A thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records" (Los Angeles Times), Do Not ... Read More
Overview :It's the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's... Read More
Overview :Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story... Read More
Overview :NPR Best Book of 2017Winner of the 2017 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism"This is the best book about the Beatles ever wr... Read More
Overview :Black Sabbath's Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it's a touchstone for the directionl... Read More
Overview :Ushering in a new era of confessional music that spoke openly about experiences of trauma, depression, and self-loathing, Nine Inch Nails' s... Read More
Overview :Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex... Read More
Overview :The origin story of a groundbreaking album The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the... Read More
Overview :Writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music in Anatomy of a Song, based on the popular ongoing Wall Street Jo... Read More
Overview :A half-century of previously unpublished interviews with legendary musicians, in a brand-new book from America's foremost oral historian ""I... Read More
Overview :Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith's XO should not be one of them. Smith's... Read More
Overview :Culled from over ten years of weekly Chicago Reader columns, My Kind of Sound will be "The Secret History of Chicago Music" compendium. Also... Read More
Overview :Frank Zappa was an unremitting musical innovator and experimenter, always looking for ways to exploit the latest advances in technology. His... Read More