DANNY GOLDBERG – SERVING THE SERVANT: REMEMBERING KURT COBAIN HARPERCOLLINS BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Releasing his latest book, Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s passing, [...]
JP AHONEN – BELZEBUBS (THE BOOK) TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS BOOK REVIEW BY STAN RASTOGI Upon the creation of black metal and throughout most of trve kvlt kvlture, there have been a net solid of zero individuals who would’ve referred to [...]
AARON TANNER – BUTTHOLE SURFERS: WHAT DOES REGRET MEAN? MELODIC VIRTUE BOOK REVIEW BY MERRY MERCURIAL Set to the color scheme of ’80s high-top sneakers, this keepsake book kicks off with a romantic vibe reserved for young crushes on weirdo [...]
PAUL McALPINE – IGGY POP – BARE & REAL TYRANT BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Few artists, if any, have enjoyed such a surprisingly long career full of various peaks which, on multiple occasions, have steered the course of [...]
IKA JOHANNESSON & JON JEFFERSON KLINGBERG – BLOOD FIRE DEATH: THE SWEDISH METAL STORY FERAL HOUSE PUBLISHERS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Originally written in Swedish in 2011, this update and translated version is one hell of a book [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – QUEEN: ALBUM BY ALBUM VOYAGEUR PRESS – NOVEMBER 13, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Without releasing an album or even touring, Queen very may well be the band of the year. Since the release of the trailer for [...]
MICHAEL DIAMOND AND ADAM HOROVITZ – BEASTIE BOYS BOOK SPIEGEL & GRAU BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Now here’s a little story that has got to be told – actually, it’s a story over thirty years in the making and it’s not so little; it results [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – IRON MAIDEN: ALBUM BY ALBUM VOYAGEUR PRESS – OCTOBER 16, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Following the release of his examination of Pink Floyd earlier this year, Martin Popoff has released Iron Maiden: Album By [...]
JERRY HAMMACK – THE BEATLES RECORDING REFERENCE MANUAL: VOLUME 3: SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND THROUGH MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (LATE 1966 – 1967) Createspace Independent Publishing Platform – October 11, 2018 ISBN – [...]
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 [...]
DEREK & DAVE PHILPOTT – DEAR MR. POP STAR UNBOUND – SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY LJUBINKO ZIVKOVIC The premise for this book is brilliant – a father somewhere in Britain keeps complaining to his son about the linguistic and [...]
Dave Thompson – The Ultimate Guide To Vinyl And More: All You Need To Know About Collecting Essential Music, From Cylinders And CDs To LPs And Tapes Backbeat Books September 1, 2018 Dave Thompson knows his music and collecting. He has [...]
Martin Popoff – Led Zeppelin: All The Albums, All The Songs – Expanded Edition Voyageur Press August 21, 2018 As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s debut, music journalist and author extraordinaire Martin Popoff [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – PINK FLOYD: ALBUM BY ALBUM VOYAGEUR PRESS – JUNE 26, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS For his latest release in what is truly an expansive collection of music driven literature, Martin Popoff has turned his attention [...]
Françoise Hardy (translated into English by Jon E. Graham)- The Despair Of Monkeys And Other Trifles: A Memoir Feral House Publishers May 15, 2018 Françoise Hardy has had quite a career. She rose to fame as a singer-songwriter in the 1960s. She [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – THE CLASH: ALL THE ALBUMS, ALL THE SONGS VOYAGEUR PRESS – MAY 15, 2018 BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY This is the kind of book about musicians that I love. Martin Popoff has written a book about the studio output of The [...]
SUSAN SHUMSKY – MAHARISHI & ME: SEEKING ENLIGHTENMENT WITH THE BEATLES’ GURU SKYHORSE PUBLISHING With the success of the recent reissue of The Beatles (The White Album), this book will be of interest to Beatle fans who are interested [...]
Quintron – Europa My Mirror Goner Records – December 1, 2017 ISBN – 978-0-999-5400-0-8 Book Review By Aaron Badgley Europa My Mirror is a memoir about a tour through Europe, written by Quintron, a [...]
AARON TANNER – FACE TO FACE: 25 YEARS OF SOCAL PUNK, THE VISUAL HISTORY Melodic Virtue – December 1, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0692786819 Book Review By Gerrod Harris Face To Face and their SoCal Punk Legacy. Having released their [...]
Wanda Jackson and Scott B. Bomar – Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl’s Journey To The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame BMG Publishing – November 14, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-947-0260-18 Book Review By Aaron Badgley This book [...]
Anthony DeCurtis – Lou Reed: A Life Little, Brown and Company October 5, 2017 Book Review By Ryan Sagadore Where does one begin when writing a biography about Lou Reed? How can you compact a life so grand into 500 pages? The legendary [...]
AXL ROSENBERG AND CHRIS KROVATIN – HELLRAISERS: A COMPLETE VISUAL HISTORY OF HEAVY METAL MAYHEM Race Point Publishing – October 2, 2017 ISBN-10: 1631064304 ISBN-13: 978-1631064302 Book Review By Gerrod Harris Coffee table books have [...]
DANIEL K. LONGMAN – THE BEATLES’ LANDMARKS IN LIVERPOOL Amberley Publishing – October 1, 2017 ISBN-10: 1445652331 ISBN-13: 978-1445652337 Book Review By Aaron Badgley A very short but very interesting and crucial book to add to [...]
David McPherson – The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: A Complete History Dundurn Press – September 23, 2017 ISBN – 10:1459734947 ISBN – 13:9781459734944 Book Review By Gabrielle Bossy The Horseshoe Tavern has been a dive bar [...]
