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And Party Every Day – The Inside Story of Casablanca Records / Larry Harris

(Backbeat Books)   www.backbeatbooks.com   BY ROBERT MAY   In the Summer of 1978 I was working for a tiny, Nashville-based independent record label.  We produced no memor more...

Jack Bruce: Composing Himself / Harry Shapiro

(Jawbone) www.jawbonepress.com   BY LEE ZIMMERMAN   For an artist as proficient and as accomplished as the brilliant Jack Bruce, there's been a surprisingly scant number of volumes more...

Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love and Porn / Tera Patrick and Carrie Borzillo

 (Gotham)   http://us.penguingroup.com/   BY ROXANA HADADI   In Tera Patrick's Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love and Porn (Gotham Books) she often reiterates how she, t more...

Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital / Mark Anderson and Mark Jenkins

(Akashic Books)   www.akashicbooks.com   BY ROXANA HADADI   There is basically nothing wrong with the updated version of Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's C more...

Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music / Marisa Meltzer

(Faber and Faber Inc.)   http://us.macmillan.com/faberandfaber.aspx     BY CRYSTAL K. WIEBE   One part memoir, two parts cultural history book, Marisa Meltzer's Girl more...

Black Music / LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)

(Akashi Classics Renegade Reprint Series)   www.akashicbooks.com   BY STEVE PICK   It was a time when music fans seriously argued about questions of technique vs. creative more...

Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell / Michael Gray

(Chicago Review Press)   www.chicagoreviewpress.com   BY RICK ALLEN   By the third page of Michael Gray's Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell (p more...

Bomp! 2 – Born In The Garage / Suzy Shaw & Mike Stax, eds.

(Bomp!/Ugly Things Publishing)   www.bomp.com   BY REV. KEITH A. GORDON   OK, listen up kiddies! Back in the dark days before the electron-pushers moved all the even remote more...

Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found / Joe Bonomo

 (Continuum)   www.continuumbooks.com   BY DAVID GREENBERGER   This book started out as a title in the 33 1/3 series that Continuum has been publishing over the course more...

The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side / Jim DeRogatis

(Voyageur)   www.voyageurpress.com   BY JIM ALLEN   For a band whose picture might as well pop up in Webster's under the definition for "seminal," it's a little surprising th more...


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Mar 10
And Party Every Day – The Inside Story of Casablanca Records by Larry Harris
03/17/2010
Jack Bruce: Composing Himself by Harry Shapiro
03/12/2010
Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love and Porn by Tera Patrick and Carrie Borzillo
03/09/2010
Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital by Mark Anderson and Mark Jenkins
03/03/2010
Feb 10
Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music by Marisa Meltzer
02/25/2010
Black Music by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
02/22/2010
Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell by Michael Gray
02/16/2010
Jan 10
Bomp! 2 – Born In The Garage by Suzy Shaw & Mike Stax, eds.
01/26/2010
Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found by Joe Bonomo
01/19/2010
The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side by Jim DeRogatis
01/08/2010
Starting Point: 1979-1996 by Hayao Miyazaki
01/04/2010
Dec 09
Vagabond Holes: David McComb & the Triffids + Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb by Chris Coughran & Niall Lucy, eds.
12/17/2009
Led Zeppelin: Shadows Taller Than Our Souls by Charles R. Cross
12/09/2009
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
12/03/2009
Nov 09
Trust: Photographs of Jim Marshall by Jim Marshall
11/27/2009
Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records by John Cook with Mac McCaughan & Laura Ballance
11/20/2009
Wire's Pink Flag by Wilson Neate
11/13/2009
Bowie: A Biography by Marc Spitz
11/05/2009
Oct 09
Man of Constant Sorrow: The Life and Times of a Music Legend by Dr. Ralph Stanley with Eddie Dean
10/27/2009
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
10/22/2009
The Impossible Dream: The Story of Scott Walker And The Walker Brothers by Anthony Reynolds
10/14/2009
White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day By Day by Richie Unterberger
10/08/2009
Sep 09
Will Work for Drugs by Lydia Lunch
09/30/2009
The Rough Guide to Nirvana by Gillian G. Gaar
09/23/2009
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
09/18/2009
Black Tooth Grin (Dimebag Darrell Abbott) + To Live Is To Die (Cliff Burton) by Zac Crain + Joel McIver
09/14/2009
Poisoned Heart: A Punk Love Story by Vera Ramone King
09/07/2009
Aug 09
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives by Peter Terzian, ed.
08/27/2009
The Portable February by David Berman
08/19/2009
Kill The Music by Michael G. Plumides, Jr.
08/17/2009
Michael Jackson: Unmasked + The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story by Ian Halperin + J. Randy Taraborrelli
08/12/2009
The Road to Woodstock + Woodstock Revisited by Michael Lang w/Holly George-Warren + Susan Reynolds (ed.)
08/06/2009
Jul 09
The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage
07/29/2009
No Certainty Attached: Steve Kilbey and The Church by Robert Dean Lurie
07/29/2009
Family: Photographs by Lauren Dukoff by Lauren Dukoff (foreword by Devendra Banhart)
07/21/2009
The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal by Mark Ribowsky
07/07/2009
Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead by Peter Conners
07/01/2009
Jun 09
Radio City by Bruce Eaton
06/30/2009
Cat Power: A Good Woman by Elizabeth Goodman
06/23/2009
No Depression: Instruments Of Change by Grant Alden & Peter Blackstock (Editors)
06/17/2009
Waiting For The Sun by Barney Hoskyns
06/12/2009
Please Step Back by Ben Greenman
06/09/2009
May 09
Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music by Greg Prato
05/27/2009
Like a Black Rose: An Autobiography of a Dominatrix by Yadi Pearl
05/13/2009
The Song Is You by Arthur Phillips
05/07/2009
Apr 09
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography by Bill Bruford
04/24/2009
Infinity Blues by Ryan Adams
04/17/2009
The Hip Hop Wars by Tricia Rose
04/09/2009
Mar 09
Sonic Boom! The History of Northwest Rock, from “Louie Louie” to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Peter Blecha
03/24/2009
Songs From A Dutch Tour by Chip Taylor
03/13/2009
It Shined: The Saga of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils by Mike "Supe" Granda
03/10/2009
A Wished-For Song: A Portrait of Jeff Buckley by Merri Cyr
03/05/2009
The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists by Joel McIver
03/03/2009
Feb 09
1 of 1500: A Ten-Year Poster Retrospective by Higher Ground, Iskra Print Collective & JDK Design
02/25/2009
Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake
02/16/2009
Notable Moments of Women in Music by Jay Warner
02/12/2009
I Hate New Music by Dave Thompson
02/09/2009
Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB by Jaime Lowe
02/09/2009
Jan 09
The Album Cover Album by Storm Thorgerson & Roger Dean
01/27/2009
Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents by Mikal Gilmore
01/22/2009
Jeffrey T. Roesgen by Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
01/16/2009
So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star: The Byrds Day-By-Day 1965-1973 by Christopher Hjort
01/06/2009
Dec 08
Richard & Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights by Hayden Childs
12/09/2008
When I Grow Up by Juliana Hatfield
12/03/2008
Nov 08
Sing Me Back Home by Dana Jennings
11/26/2008
Hot Burritos: The True Story of the Flying Burrito Brothers by John Einarson with Chris Hillman
11/14/2008
No Depression 76 by Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, eds.
11/06/2008
Oct 08
I Want to Take You Higher: The Life & Times of Sly & the Family Stone by Jeff Kaliss
10/31/2008
Old Rare New: The Independent Record Shop by Emma Pettit & Nadine Käthe Monem, eds.
10/31/2008
Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline by Ellis Nassour
10/27/2008
He Is… I Say: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond by David Wild
10/24/2008
Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside The Rock And Roll Business by Danny Goldberg
10/14/2008
Sep 08
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich
09/30/2008
1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die by Tom Moon
09/16/2008
Goodbye 20th Century + Psychic Confusion by David Browne + Stevie Chick
09/12/2008
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go by Mike Edison
09/03/2008
Aug 08
No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980. by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley
08/27/2008
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats by Grandmaster Flash and David Ritz
08/25/2008
Making Notes by Ann Wicker (ed.)
08/20/2008
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Drew Daniel
08/13/2008
No Wave + New York Noise by Marc Masters + Stuart Baker/Paula Court
08/01/2008
Jul 08
Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul
07/23/2008
Horses by Philip Shaw
07/02/2008
Jun 08
Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now! by Nadine Monem (ed.)
06/23/2008
The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard by Peter Benjaminson
06/20/2008
Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk by Phil Strongman
06/16/2008
Bowie In Berlin by Thomas Jerome Seabrook
06/10/2008
Northline by Willy Vlautin
06/10/2008
The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Yahowa 13 and the Source Family by Isis Aquarian with Electricity Aquarian
06/09/2008
Wax Poetics Anthology Volume 1 by Wax Poetics Anthology Volume 1
06/09/2008
CREEM: American's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine by Robert Matheu and Brian J. Bowe (eds.)
06/09/2008
Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste by Carl Wilson
06/06/2008
W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose by Mick Wall
06/06/2008