Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

A thought-provoking exploration of the Black musicians who inspired Elvis Presley's music, primarily through the lens of four overlooked artists: ...

This value-priced reissue of Alice Cooper at 75 (2023) celebrates the godfather of shock rock with expert commentary, hundreds of images, and an il...

The eternal singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, and lyrics ...

In a career full of turning points, none was as sharp as the one David Bowie experienced after his 1983 album Let's Dance. The record gave Bowie th...

Few artists can legitimately claim to have created truly groundbreaking popular music, but Talking Heads is one of them. Like Elvis, the Beatles, B...

In the 1960s, brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine created the California Sound through contagious ...

Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony is one of the most beloved and frequently performed works in the orchestral repertoire. Despite this, a great deal...

An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life-one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in 'slummy, one-horse towns'; obsessive desire; ...

An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life-one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in 'slummy, one-horse towns'; obsessive desire; ...

Michael Jackson challenged the power structure of the American music industry and struck at the heart of blackface minstrelsy, Americas first form ...

A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swifts ongoing project of re...

A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swifts ongoing project of re...

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are one of the great contemporary cult American rock and roll bands. At the peak of their anarchic reign in the San F...

He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for m...

From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Cl...

'A charmingly modest tale of a long brush with stardom, with all its pleasures and frustrations' Kirkus'A captivating and intimate window into the ...

A reflection on the idea of the composer in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval...

Shortly before his second birthday, Allison Moorer's son, John Henry, stopped using the twenty-seven words he had learned. John Henry's diagnosis o...

Porcupine Tree began in 1987 as a solo project for Steven Wilson but became a four-piece band when Steven was later joined by Richard Barbieri, Col...

Sometimes acclaimed as Scotland's finest-ever singer-songwriter, Gerry Rafferty was born in 1947. After developing a passion for several genres of ...

In 1998, the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers seemed extremely uncertain. Once considered alternative rocks hottest act on the back of their tri...

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 19352020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellinis operas on stage, on screen, and in soun...

In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their...

Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews w...

In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, ...

Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a leper messiah, a more appropriate moniker might be rock god: someone whose influence ...