This year's bumper crop of great music books includes titles on Joni MItchell, Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna, the Rolling Stones, the Bee Gees and more.
For the second part, we put on our reading glasses and dug into the year’s best books for fans of classic rock and related music. The first segment of our survey is devoted to memoirs and biographies (arranged alphabetically by subject), including important new books on (or by) the ...
Lou Reed, Sly Stone, girl groups, Britney Spears' memoir, Johnny Marr's guitars and more are the subjects of our favorite music books of 2023.
Both books are excellent—warm, funny, unflinchingly honest, and clearly the work of a true music fan. But World Within a Song allows Tweedy to go full nerd, not as a tangent to a story but as the story itself. The effect is something like a book-length version of Pitchfork’s own ...
Label: Martha’s Music “Atum: A Rock Opera In Three Acts” is an epic and monumental sonic journey that artfully rekindles the spirit of the Smashing Pumpkins’ iconic albums, “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness” and “Machina/The Machines Of God” This ambitious concept album unfurls...
You're not alone. I know how you feel and a lot of guitar players have felt this way. What I've found is there are 5 main reasons why guitar players become frustrated when trying to learn music theory on the guitar. Here are the 5 big reasons other music theory websites, books, re...
There have been hundreds of thousands of books about music and here are some of the best music books you may never have read.
There have been numerous books aboutWillie Nelson– including his own 1988 publication,Willie: An Autobiography– but the most unvarnished is 2015’sIt’s A Long Story: My Life. This book captures Nelson’s humor and spirit and goes off at interesting tangents. The country music singer, an ...
Getting good at music production takes both practice and knowhow. Here's 11 music production books to help you get your knowledge up to par.
s best musicbooks. The 21 titles we came up with include biographies of musicians from Wagner to Kendrick Lamar, memoirs by greats likeRob HalfordandMariah Carey, and deep-dive explorations into topics like the history of sampling, gender and pop music, and the indie-rock scene of Athens, ...