The music business can make dreams come true and it can destroy someone in a heartbeat. While the limelight is dazzline, behind the scenes there are darker stories to be told and that’s the business of Hit Men: Power Brokers…
If you love rock’n’roll, you’re going to love Mystery Train. There’s nothing quite as American, in the eyes of the world, as Rock’N’Roll. Why We Love Mystery Train Greil Marcus, in 1975, wondered how the relationship between this contemporary art…
This awesome book won the American Book Award so it’s got street cred. Hip-hop is one of the most complex and vibrant music scenes. It’s come a long way since its birth in the 1960s and undergone a process of…
It’s not easy to make a living as a musician but Ari Herstand can certainly make it easier for you to do so. When you need practical tips on how to succeed, you need How to Make It In the…
Inevitably, rock and politics run into each other and bump heads occasionally, but is it possible that rock promotes the patriarchy? And is it possible that the alternative presentation of masculinity in Indie Rock helps to combat that? That’s the…
Indie and Roots has become such a huge scene that it can take a little bit of work to get your head around it all. Fortunately, David Ensminger’s excellent Mavericks of Sound is on hand to make that an easy…
Environmentalism isn’t as new as the modern movement might have you believe and the idea of merging sound and art with the environment really took off in the 1960s. Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words is a deep dive…
We confess we love a bit of death metal here in the office, but we get why some people don’t. Michelle Phillipov appears to have started in the “hate it” camp but in Death Metal and Music Criticism they make…
Talking Heads’ music has changed many people’s lives and their founding member David Byrne began to wonder, how is it that music does this? How Music Works is the result of his research. Due to his position within the industry,…
Sonic Youth was the band that paved the road that would be followed by the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and the grunge scene. Girl in A Band by Kim Gordon is a tale from the heart of Sonic Youth and it’s…
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