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Book Review: Book on the Dance Floor
In the Spring of 1997, the promotion of the HIStory album seemed as if it would continue for quite a while, especially since Michael Jackson’s ... -
Book Review: Taylor Swift 'evermore' Piano • Vocal • Guitar Songbook
Here are 17 songs for piano, voice and guitar from the second album created during the pandemic lockdown by Taylor Swift. The songs, a conceptual ... -
Book Review: The Last Soul Company: Malaco Records
Having marked its 50th anniversary, Malaco is the oldest continuously-run indie label in America, and the world’s biggest and most important gospel label. The Malaco ... -
Book Review: How to Build an Excellent Child
Meredith Day distills her lifelong experiences as a mom and a child entertainment talent manager into this compact advice book, a “parenting operations manual,” which ... -
Book Review: Dan Alexander Audio–A Vintage Odyssey
Dan Alexander Audio reveals the origins and history of vintage recording gear, told by the man who coined the term. It discusses the products of 22 ... -
Book Review: Deep Cuts Trivia: Intelligence Test for the Musically Obsessed
The author, aka Bobby the Beerslayer, brings a consistent sense of fun and imagination to his book, a collection of 400 authoritatively curated music trivia ... -
Book Review: Looking to Get Lost
Bestselling author Peter Guralnick (Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley) does it once again ... -
Book Review: Revolver
In this novel from Concord Free Press, it’s the end of the 1970s, and two star-crossed high school lovers from Long Island go on a ... -
Book Review: Your Van Is On Fire: The Miscellaneous Meanderings of a Musician
Singer-songwriter and visual artist Seth Walker’s Your Van Is On Fire sheds light on the ins, outs and what-have-you’s of life inside the mind of ... -
Book Review: Major Label Mastering
Grammy winner Evren Goknar, a long-time mastering engineer at legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, takes you inside the eyes, ears and mind of a ... -
Book Review: The Music Mixing Workbook
Award-winning author Bobby Owsinski’s The Music Mixing Workbook is designed to help anyone relatively new to or confused about the once mysterious process of mixing multiple ... -
Livestream Review: Alix
Livestream New Jersey Contact: ambitiousfuturerecords@gmail.com Web: alixmusic.com Players: Alix, vocals; Paul Sikoral, guitar, keys Material: Alix is a California girl—you can hear it in ... -
Book Review: The Straightforward Guide to the Music Biz–An Entertainment Lawyer Breaks Down The Industry
This brief (85-page) handbook is a useful resource for any young artist to own and keep handy. The author, a music industry scholar and attorney, ... -
Book Review: Transcendent Waves – How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives
What insights can we gain when we delve into the immersive world of sound, which permeates our every moment? In Transcendent Waves, sound healing practitioner, meditation ... -
Book Review: Sittin’ In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s & 1950s
In the two decades before the Civil Rights movement, jazz nightclubs were among the first places that opened to both black and white performers and ... -
Book Review: All Exce$$–Occupation Concert Promoter
A new book by this longtime concert promoter is 350 pages of stories and photos from Zelisko’s personal collection, giving a glimpse from “behind the ... -
Book Review: It Came From Memphis: Updated and Revised
This is the 25th anniversary edition of a special book that beautifully details how, in the 1950s, Underground Memphis embraced African American culture when dominant ... -
Book Review: Hanging Tree Guitars
For over 50 years, Freeman Vines has transformed materials culled from a forgotten landscape in his relentless pursuit of building a guitar capable of producing ... -
Book Review: John & Yoko Plastic Ono Band
WeldonOwen publishers have put together an artful and informative book that fully explores John Lennon’s first album after the Beatles’ breakup. Described by Lennon as ... -
Book Review: Jon B: Are You Still Down?
The blue-eyed soul artist gets a respectful tribute in this brief treatise by Dominique Carson, who makes the case for Jon B as an R&B ...
























