Starting today, we have 12 recommendations for music books for your holiday list! We will add a new book each day until December 23 and include a link to Amazon to purchase each entry.
Happy holidays!
We're giving away books right and left for the holidays! Today's “Humpday Giveaway” ends Friday! Enter to win a book from the 33 1/3 series, this time Kanye West's ”My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” by Kirk Walker Graves.
James Parker, in the Sunday Times, wrote one of the best book review columns I've read in quite some time.
Today we're giving away “Dirty Rocker Boys,” the shocking and risque memoir from Bobbi Brown, the unforgettable face of Warrant's video “Cherry Pie."
Bobbie survived the party — barely — and her riveting, cautionary comeback tale is filled with the wildest stories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll ever told.
Enter here to win.
Amazon recently released their “100 Best Books of 2014” and, sadly, not a single music-related book, biography or memoir was on that list. And it wasn’t for lack of choices – trust us: 2014 has offered up a bounty of unique and fantastic reads for the music lover.
Here are 10 (in no particular order) that we think could have — and should have — made Amazon’s cut.
Today we are giving away of copy of legendary writer Greil Marcus' brand new book The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs.
If you read this space regularly, or as irregularly as I regularly write, you’ve no doubt noticed a trend that questions the “value” of music these days. I’ve not made secret that, in my opinion, there have been many factors that have contributed to the devaluing of music in today’s (primarily youth) culture: competition for leisure time, concert ticket costs, satellite and streaming radio, and the role shows like American Idol and The Voice have had in determining “pop” music.
Today, "Five Questions" are put to Mat Snow, author of
U2: Revolution. Snow is also the award-winning former editor
of the world-renowned Mojo magazine.
Everybody hates humpday, but we're going to make it better with out weekly "Humpday Giveaway" contest.
This week, enter to win a free copy of Michael Jackson "Dangerous" from the acclaimed 33 1/3 series.
To enter, click here.
Today, "Five Questions" are put to Mike King, author of
Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution, and Retail
