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Book Review: Rainbow In The Dark
By Ronnie James Dio (hardcover) $28.00 This posthumous publication of the metal musician’s memoir finds Dio reflecting on not only his start in music, but ... -
Book Review: Touching Greatness
By Ted Sobel (paperback) $24.95 While his thoroughly entertaining memoir is primarily a chronicle of the longtime author-sportscaster’s interractions with some of our greatest athletes, ... -
Book Review: Major Label Mastering
By Evren Goknar (paperback) $42.95 Beginning with the requisite competencies every mastering engineer must develop, Major Label Mastering delves into the particulars of the mastering studio, as ... -
Book Review: The Ultimate Guide to Music Publicity
By Ariel Hyatt (paperback) $17.99 Hyatt breaks down everything you need to know to master an effective and well rounded communication strategy for your music. ... -
Book Review: The Blueprint
By Frank Demilt (hardcover, Kindle) $20.00 Here’s a terrific primer on how to be a successful artist today, from A to Z. And since the ... -
Book Review: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
By Miles A. Copeland III (paperback) $22.95 The son of a CIA operative, manager of the Police and founder of IRS Records (R.E.M., Go-Go’s, Cramps) ... -
Book Review: Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl
By Mercy Fontenot (hardcover) $27.00 Written just prior to her death in 2020, Permanent Damage shows us the wild world of the 1960s and 1970s music scenes ... -
Book Review: Rock Me On The Water
By Ronald Brownstein (hardcover) $29.99 There have been some terrific books written about key years in the music world, but in Atlantic magazine senior editor ... -
Book Review: Top Rankin’
By Howard Paar (paperback) $20.00 It’s the dawn of 1980 in Los Angeles and everything’s changing. Punks, dopers and assorted miscreants play in the decaying ... -
Book Review: Innovation In Music—Future Opportunities
Edited by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Justin Paterson and Rob Touson (paperback) $68.95 Innovation in Music brings together cutting-edge research on new innovations in the field of ... -
Book Review: Broken Horses
By Brandi Carlile (hardcover) $28.00 The multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter opens up her life to the reader, warts and all, chronicling her troubled, impoverished upbringing on ... -
Book Review: Stories to Tell: A Memoir
By Richard Marx (hardcover) $27.00 Marx, one of the most accomplished singer-songwriters ever, shares a cavalcade of stories from his life, including the challenges of ... -
Book Review: Folk Springs Eternal
By Andy Beck (paperback) $5.35 The plot of this vivid, colorful novel tells a tale that any career-driven musician can relate to. Gus, Lin, Herman ... -
Book Review: The Magic Years: Scenes From A Rock-and-Roll Life
By Jonathan Taplin (hardcover) $28.00 As a college student in the early ‘60s, author Taplin parlayed his passion for music into a part-time gig working ... -
Book Review: It’s About Time–Jeff Porcaro, the Man and His Music
By Robyn Flans (hardcover) $16.66 One of the most recorded drummers in history, Porcaro became a music superstar held in equal esteem by fans and ... -
Book Review: Gender In Music Production
Edited by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Liesl King and Mark Marrington (paperback) $48.91 The field of music production has for many years been regarded as male-dominated. Despite ... -
Book Review: Decoding “Despacito”–An Oral History of Latin Music
By Leila Cobo (paperback) $14.95 From the salsa of the streets of New York City, to Puerto Rican reggaeton and bilingual chart-toppers, this is an ... -
Book Review: Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker
By Harry Manaka (paperback) $20.00 If you think you know all there is to know about L.A.’s music history, you need to check this book ... -
Book Review: DJ Method
By DJ Bizzon (paperback) $12.99 A thorough, illustrated and easy-to-follow primer for the beginning DJ, this handbook includes everything from setup to scratching techniques to ... -
Book Review: Hollywood Eden
By Joel Selvin (hardcover) $28.00 Selvin captures the early ‘60s Los Angeles pop-music scene, its highs and lows, its hits and misses, its epics and ...
