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Five Hundred 45s: A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record / Spencer Drate & Judith Slavetz, eds.

(Collins Design)   www.collinsdesignbooks.com   BY FRED MILLS   "A single," writes guitarist and musicologist Lenny Kaye in his introduction for the truth-in-titling Five Hun more...

The Baseball Codes / Jason Turbow with Michael Duca

(Pantheon Books)   www.pantheonbooks.com   BY FRED MILLS   I'm the father of a 2A Little Leaguer, and the other afternoon he got his first hit of the new season; two batters l more...

The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: the 11½ Anniversary Edition / Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins

(Ballantine Books/ Delrey)   www.penny-arcade.com   BY CHRIS ZIMMERMAN   Having been a casual gamer for the majority of my life, I imagine that those in the know would find it more...

Me, The Mob, and The Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells / Tommy James with Martin Fitzpatrick

(Simon and Schuster)   http://books.simonandschuster.com     BY BILL HOLMES   Tommy James and the Shondells were one of the most consistent hit making groups of the &ls more...

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...


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Jan 12
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01/20/2012
Dec 11
Paul Brannigan by This is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
12/28/2011
Rock And Roll Always Forgets by Chuck Eddy
12/13/2011
Occupants by Henry Rollins
12/07/2011
Nov 11
Tom Waits On Tom Waits: Interviews And Encounters by Paul Maher Jr., ed.
11/10/2011
Sep 11
Have Not Been the Same: The Canrock Renaissance 1985-1995 by Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, and Jason Schneider
09/23/2011
Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
09/05/2011
Aug 11
Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good by Corey Taylor
08/24/2011
Preachin’ The Blues: The Life & Times of Son House by Daniel Beaumont
08/11/2011
Along the Cherry Lane by Milton Okun (as told to Richard Sparks)
08/04/2011
Jul 11
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music by Rob Young
07/26/2011
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould (with Michael Azerrad)
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Niceness in the ‘90s: An Indie Music Memoir by Jim Miller
07/19/2011
Skull Orchard Revisited by Jon Langford
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C’est la guerre: Early Writings: 1978-1983 by Byron Coley
07/05/2011
Jun 11
Rock & Roll...And the Beat Goes On by "Cousin Brucie" Morrow with Rich Maloof
06/29/2011
You Must Go and Win by Alina Simone
06/24/2011
Fire And Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor CSNY and the lost story of 1970 by David Browne
06/19/2011
Guitar Player Presents Guitar Heroes of the '70s by Michael Molenda, editor
06/13/2011
May 11
The Last Bandit: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Life by Nikki Sudden
05/27/2011
Keyboard Presents Synth Gods by Ernie Rideout, editor
05/05/2011
Apr 11
The Indie Cred Test by Ed. by Guion Bentley, Chad Baker, Shane Gillis, Henry H. Owings
04/26/2011
Won’t Get Fooled Again: The Who From Lifehouse to Quadrophenia by Richie Unterberger
04/07/2011
Mar 11
Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal by Jeff Wagner
03/30/2011
Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk by Jeanette Leech
03/21/2011
Larry Marion, ed. by The Lost Rolling Stones Photographs: The Bob Bonis Archive, 1964-1966
03/02/2011
Jan 11
Trademark Of Quality by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
01/07/2011
Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy by Ken Sharp
01/04/2011
Dec 10
Coltrane On Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews by Edited by Chris DeVito
12/28/2010
Husker Du: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock by Andrew Earles
12/20/2010
Mountains Come Out of the Sky: The Illustrated History of Prog Rock by Will Romano
12/14/2010
Soul Mining: A Musical Life by Daniel Lanois
12/06/2010
Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz’s First Platinum Album by Steven F. Pond
12/02/2010
Nov 10
A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio by Paul Myers
11/26/2010
Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir by Dave Mustaine
11/23/2010
Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Blues by Alan Govenar
11/17/2010
Jazz Matters: Sound, Place, and Time Since Bebop by David Ake
11/12/2010
A Dead Boy’s Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock by Cheetah Chrome
11/08/2010
Just Kids by Patti Smith
11/03/2010
Innerviews: Music Without Borders by Anil Prasad
11/01/2010
Oct 10
Listen To This by Alex Ross
10/25/2010
Fab: The Life of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes
10/18/2010
The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage
10/12/2010
Touch And Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83 by Tesco Vee & Dave Stimson
10/05/2010
Sep 10
They Came to Nashville by Marshall Chapman
09/24/2010
Public Enemy: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Christopher R. Weingarten
09/17/2010
Pavement: Wowee Zowee by Bryan Charles
09/01/2010
Aug 10
Shelter From the Storm: Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Years + Still On the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1974-2006 by Sid Griffin + Clinton Heylin
08/23/2010
Bob Marley: The Untold Story by Chris Salewicz
08/11/2010
Phish: The Biography by Parke Puterbaugh
08/04/2010
Jul 10
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinners Semester at America’s Holiest University by Kevin Roose
07/30/2010
Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter by Randy L. Schmidt
07/27/2010
Lips Unsealed by Belinda Carlisle
07/21/2010
Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book Of Love by John Einarson
07/19/2010
We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001 by Eric Davidson
07/13/2010
Every Rose Has Its Thorn: The Rock 'n' Roll Field Guide to Guys by Erin Bradley (Author) and Heather Bradley (Illustrator)
07/08/2010
Neil Young: Long May You Run – The Illustrated History by Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff
07/01/2010
Jun 10
Antonino D’Ambrosio by A Heartbeat And A Guitar: Johnny Cash And The Making Of Bitter Tears
06/25/2010
Return of the King: Elvis Presley’s Great Comeback by Gillian G. Gaar
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Five Hundred 45s: A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record by Spencer Drate & Judith Slavetz, eds.
06/15/2010
May 10
The Baseball Codes by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca
05/03/2010
Apr 10
The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: the 11½ Anniversary Edition by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins
04/02/2010
Mar 10
Me, The Mob, and The Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and the Shondells by Tommy James with Martin Fitzpatrick
03/22/2010
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
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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
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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
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Poisoned Heart: A Punk Love Story by Vera Ramone King
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Aug 09
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives by Peter Terzian, ed.
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The Portable February by David Berman
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Kill The Music by Michael G. Plumides, Jr.
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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.)
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Jul 09
The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage
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No Certainty Attached: Steve Kilbey and The Church by Robert Dean Lurie
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Family: Photographs by Lauren Dukoff by Lauren Dukoff (foreword by Devendra Banhart)
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The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal by Mark Ribowsky
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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
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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