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Book Store: "Live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop" By Peter Alan Lesser
McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, CA is a beloved local store, and it’s been hosting live shows since 1969. Their room is just spacious ... -
Book Store: "Slow Stories" By Bette A.
Dutch artist, activist and author Bette A. has released this book of short stories, simultaneously dropping a vinyl record 2 Short Stories that sees the ... -
Book Store: "Pete's Beat" By Matt Robinson
Drummers like to get young drummers drumming early, or at least that’s what we can take from Matt Robinson’s Pete’s Beat, a children’s book about ... -
Book Store: "Raised On Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine, and Payola" By Paul Rees
Paul Rees has penned well-received biographies of Robert Plant, John Entwistle, John Mellencamp, and Elliott Smith, and he was previously the editor at Kerrang! and ... -
Book Store: "Tastykakes, Soul Songs & Shining Stars" By Joe McEwen
Industry veteran Joe McEwen has long had a passion for all things jazz, soul, and R&B, and that calling led him to write for the ... -
Book Store: "Screen Gems: Pop Music Documentaries & Rock and Roll TV Scenes" By Harvey ...
Frequent MC contributor Harvey Kubernik is a well-respected music historian across the genres, a scholar with a firm grasp for what makes these characters, the ... -
Book Store: "Hello George" By Jon Fried
Oh, this is fun. Jon Fried of power-pop project the Cucumbers has written this novella, and then his band’s new album As You Heard Me ... -
Book Store: "Speakeasies to Symphonies: The Jazz Genius of James P. Johnson" By Scott E. ...
According to this book’s blurb, “James P. Johnson (1894–1955) is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American music. However, few people other than ... -
Book Store: "Rhythm of My Heart: The Authorized Biography of Marc Jordan" By Don Breithaupt
Canadian singer and songwriter Marc Jordan is one of those “if you know him, you really know him” sort of artists. As well as an ... -
Book Store: "Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians" By Larry Ruttman
Attorney and author Ruttman has written a “deep dive into the minds of celebrated composers, conductors and performers, written not by a trained musician but ... -
Book Store: "Descenes and Discords: An Anthology" By Howard Wuelfing
Any fans of Washington D.C. punk rock and hardcore need, genuinely need, to own this incredible anthology of work originally published in the two separate ... -
Book Store: "Music Industry Internships: The Ultimate Guide for Students" By Bobby Borg
Borg has a number of excellent music industry reference guides under his belt; only last month, we reviewed the second edition of his book Introduction ... -
Book Store: "What Mattered Most" By Ty Herndon with David Ritz
Ty Herndon is a special kind of country artist, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights at every opportunity because he knows that human rights aren’t political. This, ... -
Book Store: "Willie Nelson: All the Albums" By Geoffrey Himes
On one hand, this book feels like it’s one for the Willie Nelson completists, as author Himes leads us through the living legend of country’s ... -
Book Store: "All Roads Lead to Punk" By Genny Schorr
A lot of pleasure can be had by diving into a scene and, once you’ve familiarized yourself with the main players, going back and digging ... -
Book Store: "In the Hour of Chaos" By Chuck D
“This book is not an autobiography,” a statement from the publisher reads. “It’s not a manifesto. It’s a razor-sharp investigation into hip-hop and rap music ... -
Book Store: "Introduction to Music Publishing for Musicians – Second Edition" By Bobby Borg and ...
Back in 2021, MC reviewed the first edition of this book and said, “Worth every penny, this is a down-to-earth new book written by two musicians ... -
Book Store: "David Gilmour: Luck and Strange, Studio/Live" Photographs by Polly Samson
Photographer Polly Samson has done a quite glorious job of documenting the studio process and then the tour for former Pink Floyd man David Gilmour’s ... -
Book Store: "Pearl Jam Live: 35 Years of Legendary Music and Revolutionary Shows" By Selena ...
While books have been written about Seattle giants Pearl Jam before, it’s the “live” angle that music journalist Fragassi has leaned into here, actually structuring ... -
Book Store: "Alternative for the Masses" By Greg Prato
As he mentions in his introduction, author Prato is determined to prove to his readers that Nirvana didn’t “come out of nowhere” in ‘91. The ...
