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 [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – METALLICA: ALBUM BY ALBUM MOTORBOOKS/QUARTO BOOK REVIEW BY MIKE MATTHEW Seasoned rock critic and prolific music writer Martin Popoff cranks out another epic tome, this time about Metallica’s discography. In it he [...]
CHARLIE HARPER – AN ANARCHY OF DEMONS EARTH ISLAND BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY JOHN PORTER There’s already a mystique around Charlie Harper, ever-present member and founder of the U.K. Subs – after all, there are few punks from his era around, [...]
MITCHELL COHEN – WAKE ME, SHAKE ME: NEW YORK CITY, THE ’60s & THE POP-ROCK YOUTHQUAKE TROUSER PRESS BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Wake Me, Shake Me: New York City, The 60s & The Pop-Rock Youthquake is a very specific [...]
LEONARD GRAVES PHILLIPS – THE DICKIES AND ME – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LEONARD GRAVES PHILLIPS CLEOPATRA RECORDS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Try to imagine, it is 1978, punk is at full force, and for the most part, a serious and angry [...]
TONY FLETCHER – POW! WHEN UK PUNK WENT POP 1980-84 TROUSER PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY LJUBINKO ZIVKOVIC The number of music books seems to be proliferating which at the same time means that there is quite some divergence in their quality. It can [...]
SEAN KELLY – BATTLE AXES: A HARD ROCKIN’ HISTORY OF POINTY GUITARS ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY JULIE CORRELL Rock ’n’ roll has never been particularly good at following the rules, and eventually its guitars stopped following them too. Pointy [...]
TIM SOMMER – DISPATCHES FROM THE KINGDOM OF OUTSIDERS: WRITING ON MUSIC, CULTURE AND MORE 1979-2025 TROUSER PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Tim Sommer has done pretty much everything in the music world. He was a writer for the Trouser [...]
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK AND RAINE MAIDA – I’M GOING TO BREAK YOUR HEART: A ROCK N ROLL LOVE STORY ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY I’m Going To Break Your Heart: A Rock N Roll Love Story is a fascinating and rather unique book. Chantal [...]
ADAM BERNARD – ONE HIT WONDERING: THE STORIES OF 40 ONE HIT WONDERS + OTHER TALES FROM THE CRATES INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW BY CHRIS X What if a musician’s greatest, most terrifying nightmare isn’t fading into absolute obscurity, [...]
BRAD TOLINSKI & CHRIS GILL – BLOW BY BLOW: THE JEFF BECK STORY DA CAPO BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS For his legendary status, Jeff Beck remains an understated and misunderstood tour de creative force among guitarist and popular music alike. [...]
TYLER SONNICHSEN – THE DEAD MILKMEN J-CARD PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY JOHN PORTER It’s hard to understand how one even begins to tell the story of The Dead Milkmen, being the incongruous fits even for the punk scene that they are, but credit to [...]
SUE FOLEY – GUITAR WOMEN: CONVERSATIONS & LIFE LESSONS WITH SIX-STRING HEROINES SUTHERLAND HOUSE BOOK REVIEW BY TRISH MELANSON Sue Foley, author of Guitar Women: Conversations & Life Lessons with Six-String Heroines, is no stranger [...]
KIM THAYIL – A SCREAMING LIFE: INTO THE SUPERUNKNOWN WITH SOUNDGARDEN AND BEYOND WILLIAM MORROW BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Little has been written about the ascent, songwriting, and legacy of perhaps the greatest band to emerge from the [...]
DON PYLE – ROUGH DESCRIPTION: LOVE LETTERS AND GHOST STORIES FROM A LIFE IN MUSIC ECW PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Don Pyle remains a consistent figure among Toronto’s vibrant creative communities as a musician, photographer, and [...]
ROB TOMLINSON – YOU CAN’T GIVE ME THE DREAMS THAT ARE MINE ANYWAY: THE MUSIC OF THE GALLAGHER BROTHERS INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW BY DIEGO UZAL Oasis has been written about enough times that another account of the Gallagher brothers’ rise and [...]
PAT GILBERT – PASSION IS A FASHION: THE REAL STORY OF THE CLASH AURUM/QUARTO GROUP BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Pat Gilbert’s Passion Is A Fashion: The Real Story of The Clash has stood out from other bios on The Clash since it was first [...]
