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 :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 :In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the p... Read More
Overview :The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weaponThe vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, on... Read More
Overview :Race, history, culture, and entertainment collide in this bracing and personal examination of black performance and the complicated, ongoing... 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 :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 :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 :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 :Remember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life. Named One of the Best B... 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 :Beethoven's Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving ... 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 :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