Books about Music, Artists and Vinyl Records

Description Release details Released in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a ...

Description Release details By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio t...

Description Release details One of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record (featuring sto...

Description Release details Two kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the propri...

Description Release details In 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released The Gilded Palace of Sin on A&M Records,selli...

Description Release details In 20 Jazz Funk Greats Drew Daniel (of the experimental band Matmos) creates-through both his o...

Description Release details In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo ...

Description Release details Loveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release - an album so influential and groundbrea...

Description Release details "Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and p...

Description Release details In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a d...

Description Release details Carole King's Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosi...

Description Release details Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept w...

Description Release details New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare: destitute, dirty, and dangerous. As the cou...

Description Release details It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynami...

Description Release details The Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and throu...

Description Release details Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott ...

Description Release details The Pixies have had a career unlike any other in alternative rock, disappearing as not-quite-th...

Description Release details Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's o...

Description Release details Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutra...

Description Release details Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influence...

Description Release details Seemingly granted 'classic album' status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transf...

Description Release details Issued on America's premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer's contro...

Description Release details Finally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio art-rockers Devo had plainly...

Description Release details Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdub...

Description Release details The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. An...

Description Release details Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire hi...

Description Release details "I had to leave town for a little while--" with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to ...

Description Release details Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced ...

Description Release details Joy Division's career has often been shrouded by myths. But the truth is surprisingly simple: ...

Description Release details In recent years, Björk's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With ...

Description Release details In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive At...

Description Release details Formed in 1968, Jethro Tull are one of rock's most enduring bands. Their 1971 album Aqualung, w...

Description Release details What could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched ou...

Description Release details When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on...

Description Release details Pet Sounds is, rightly, one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released. It has also been ...

Description Release details Conceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die, 'For...

Description Release details Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybr...

Description Release details This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of...

Description Release details From the "War on Hippies" to the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a ...

Description Release details Daydream Nation is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity (born of extremes, rife with difficulties, ...

Description Release details The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewa...

Description Release details Of all the seminal albums to come out in 1991-the year of Nevermind, Loveless, Ten, and Out of...

Description Release details In the fall of 1980 Richard and Linda Thompson (of Fairport Convention fame) had recently been...

Description Release details Rid of Me joins Music From Big Pink by John Niven and Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice as one of ...

Description Release details This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to fo...

Description Release details Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influ...

Description Release details He is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happ...

Description Release details Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's sma...