ANDREA SWENSSON – FLEETWOOD MAC AND RUMOURS: 50 YEARS MOTORBOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY BRYAN WILLISTON The creation of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album, Rumours, is the stuff of rock ‘n’ roll legend. It is a now-familiar tale of a British blues act who [...]
GILLIAN GAAR – GRUNGE! THE STORY OF THE MUSIC THAT REDEFINED ROCK MOTORBOOKS/QUARTO PUBLISHING GROUP BOOK REVIEW BY CHRIS X I never stood a chance of ignoring this book. The striking cover didn’t invite me in so much as it pinned me [...]
ALICE COOPER AND DANIEL RICHLER – DEVIL ON MY SHOULDER DE CAPO/HACHETTE BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY JULIE CORRELL For more than six decades, Alice Cooper has blurred the line between reality and illusion. With blackened eyes, a snake around his [...]
MIKE DALEY – YORKVILLE: HOW A 1960s COFFEEHOUSE SCENE REWROTE POPULAR MUSIC SUTHERLAND HOUSE BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY I was eager to read this book, as this is an era and place that has not had deep dives written about it. From 1954 [...]
RICHARD BOWES – GARY NUMAN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY SPENWOOD BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Tubeway Army, featuring Gary Numan, released their self-titled debut album in 1978. By 1979, Numan began dominating the charts in the U.K. both with [...]
KELLY CATLIN – KURT COBAIN: FOREVER IN BLOOM: THE LEGACY BEYOND THE TRAGEDY SKYHORSE PUBLISHING BOOK REVIEW BY CHRIS X Kurt Cobain. Grunge. For those of us that saw the events unfold in real time, we didn’t just listen to the music, we [...]
NIGEL DICK – MUSIC VIDEO MISCHIEF OZZY TO BRITNEY, OASIS TO GN’R, McCARTNEY TO CHER: A LIFETIME OF ROCK AND CHAOS TROUSER PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY CHRIS X I just want to preface this review by saying that I received an advance digital copy of [...]
RACHEL BRODSKY – LESSONS & LACE: EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT DREAMS, HEARTBREAK, AND MAGIC I LEARNED FROM STEVIE NICKS HARMONY/PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE BOOK REVIEW BY ROXY MACDONALD Dedicated Stevie Nicks fans are a bit deranged. We cloak [...]
