TARA MACLEAN – SONG OF THE SPARROW HARPER COLLINS CANADA BOOK REVIEW BY BRYAN WILLISTON Canadian singer-songwriter Tara MacLean rose to prominence as a solo artist in the late 1990s, and also experienced success in the mid-2000s with the [...]
TIM MUDDIMAN – THE GEOMETRICAL SWING ALBANY PUBLISHING BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Tim Muddiman has made a name for himself in music. Besides his own solo career, he has played guitar with Gary Numan for many years and most recently he [...]
JOHN LENNON AND YOKO ONO – IMAGINE JOHN YOKO GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING – OCTOBER 9, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY 2018 has become the year of The Beatles. Not that 2018 is any different than any other year (remember last year with [...]
Kenneth Womack – Maximum Volume: The Life Of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1962-1966 Chicago Review Press – September 1, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-613-7318-95 Book Review By Aaron Badgley George Martin is one of the [...]
Billy Vera – Harlem To Hollywood Backbeat Books – April 25, 2017 ISBN – 978-1617136627 Book Review By Aaron Badgley I learned a great deal reading Harlem to Hollywood by Billy Vera. The first thing I learned is that Billy Vera [...]
RICH WEIDMAN – GUNS N’ ROSES FAQ: ALL THAT’S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE BAD BOYS OF SUNSET STRIP Backbeat Books – April 21, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-4950-2588-4 Book Review By Aaron Badgley The FAQ is an excellent book series. [...]
John Oates – Change Of Seasons: A Memoir (With Chris Epting) St. Martin’s Press – April 4, 2017 ISBN – 978-1250082657 Book Review By Gerry Young In John Oates’ riveting new memoir Change of Seasons, one half of the [...]
Kenny Aronoff – Sex, Drums, Rock ‘n’ Roll! – The Hardest Hitting Man In Show Business Backbeat Books – November 15, 2016 Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Backbeat Books Language: English ISBN-10: 9781495007934 [...]
Simon Wolstencroft – You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide Strata Books – November 13, 2014 Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Strata Books Language: English ISBN-10: 0957369077 ISBN-13: 978-0957369078 Product Dimensions: 14.4 x 2.2 x [...]
Gillian G. Gaar – Boss: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – The Illustrated History Quatro Publishing Group – July 1, 2016 ISBN – 9780760349724 Printed Laminated Cover 208 Pages 125 Colour & 43 B/W Photos $35.00 [...]
Matteo Guarnaccia & Giulia Pivetta – Bob Dylan Play Book ACC Editions – May 2016 ISBN – 9781851498215 96 Pages 25 colour, 75 B&W Illustrations Paperback £17.99 Bob Dylan Play Book – a collector’s colouring [...]
Thomas Edward Harkins & Bernard M. Corbett – Pearl Jam FAQ – All That’s Left to Know About Seattle’s Most Enduring Band Backbeat Books – May 24, 2016 ISBN: 9781617136122 6.0″ x 9.0″ 400 pages With [...]
Derek von Essen (Text by Phil Saunders) – No Flash Please – Underground Music In Ontario 1987-92 Anvil Press – May 10, 2016 ISBN 978-1-77214-037-8 7.5 x 9.5 | 256 pp $25 CAN / $25 US The music scene in the mid-eighties was in [...]
Greg Prato – ‘Scott Weiland: Memories of a Rock Star’ From late 1992 and throughout the remainder of the decade, if you spent any amount of time watching MTV or listening to rock radio, you were bound to come in contact with a [...]
Tim English – Sounds Like Teen Spirit Timothy English – January 11, 2016 ISBN-10: 0692593578 ISBN-13: 978-0692593578 Music plagiarism cases continue to pop up all over the news, the latest being Lady Gaga’s multi-million dollar [...]
Martin Atkins – Band:Smart Soluble LLC (June 1, 2014) ISBN-10: 0979731356 FROM THE AUTHOR: The nice people at CDBaby have put together a BookBaby page for a special deal of 75% off the list price of $40! Just $9.99 for a little while. Why [...]
Yellow Bird Project – The Indie Rock Coloring Book Chronicle Books – July 29, 2009 ISBN-10: 0811870944 Want a last minute gift for that person who has everything? Check this out! The Montreal-based nonprofit Yellow Bird Project has [...]
RON WOOD – HOW CAN IT BE?: A ROCK & ROLL DIARY Genesis Publications – 29 Sep 2015 ISBN10190566236X – ISBN139781905662364 ‘My own private world is in this diary.’ – Ronnie Wood Before he was a Rolling [...]
Scott Weiland – Not Dead & Not For Sale: A Memoir Scribner – July 10, 2012 ISBN – 10: 0743297172 ISBN – 13: 9780743297172 Today’s Spill Book Club post is brought to you with great sadness. Last night, Scott [...]
The Beatles in Canada – The Origins of Beatlemania David MacMillan Independent Music Marketing — Early 2016 A new book that finally tells the real story of The Beatles’ rise to fame in Canada in 1963… months ahead of their [...]
Randy Chertkow And Jason Feehan – The Indie Band Survival Guide, 2nd Ed.: The Complete Manual For The Do-It-Yourself Musician St. Martin’s Press – September 4, 2012 ISBN – 9781250017536 “[Chertkow and Feehan] are [...]
Martin “Youth” Glover – The Anarchist Colouring Book Bracket Press October 23 2015 Colouring books for grown ups have become a “thing”. Here’s one with an additional twist .. this book features original [...]
Jaimie Vernon – Life’s A Canadian Punk: Who Wants Guns?: The Swindled Story (1973-1983) (Life’s A Canadian Rock) (Volume 1) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – April 17, 2013 ISBN-10: 1478192933 ISBN-13: [...]
Sam Knee – The Bag I’m In: Underground Music And Fashion In Britain, 1960-1990 Cicada Books | December 8, 2015 | Hardcover ISBN – 10: 1908714263 ISBN – 13: 9781908714268 From the Publisher Youth subculture in [...]
