by Katie Richards | Apr 16, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Music, Pop Culture
Ann Powers, the well-known popular music critic that many readers will know from NPR, brings her famous voice to print in Good Booty. The book is a history of American popular music, with particular concentration on the ways that popular music works as a nexus point...
by Dick Weissman | Jan 22, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Music
Following up on his book about the legendary L.A. hit makers The Wrecking Crew, Hartman takes a different tack in this book about LA Rock in the 1970s. He weaves the story around producer Keith Olsen, his studio Sound City, and session guitar player Waddy Wachtel. The...
by Axie Barclay | Nov 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Music, Psychology, Self-Help
Our brains are assholes, according to Faith Harper, PHD, LPC-S, ACS. In her book, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-outs, and Triggers, she covers the ways our brains f*&# with us and what we can do to deal with it....
by Dick Weissman | Jun 30, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Music
John Doe has put together a history of L.A.Punk Music in the 1970s. The contributors include his band-mate Exene Cervenka, Charlotte Caffey, and Jane Weidlin of the Au Go-Go’s, and a half dozen other musicians, music critics, and record producers. The book does a fine...
by Dick Weissman | Apr 20, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Music
Rhodes has concocted an unusual format for this memoir, which is also in development as a feature film. The chapters are titled as “Tracks,” as one would find on a record album. Each track includes an introductory page that references a specific performance of a piano...
by Howard Leighton | Apr 12, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Music, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
This book contains twenty short stories written by twenty different authors. At the back of the book there is a short (two-to-four sentence) description of each author and their work. While the title of this anthology does imply music existing in the stories, to say...
