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’ Relax Baby Be Cool is a trip into unraveling the mind and genius of one of the greatest artists of all time. Although Gainsbourg’s music has been discovered by new generations, his life has rarely …

Clinton Heylin’s biography No More Sad Refrains, draws on hours of interviews with Sandy’s closest friends and musical collaborators, access to her diaries and unreleased work, to produce a moving po …

Dylan: Disc by Disc features each of Bob Dylan’s studio LPs–thirty-six releases in all. Rock ’n’ roll musicians, songwriters, and critics sound off about each release, bringing from the shadows not …

Kirkus Reviews • Best Books of 2024 [Nonfiction] “I first met Jesse Ed Davis in the late ’80s. . . . [He was a] gentle yet intensely present giant who was a legend of an artist. . . . In Washita Love …

Led by indefatigable singer and songwriter Robert Pollard, Guided By Voices have been one of the most important rock groups of the past thirty years. After toiling for a decade in obscurity, they bro …

The book consists of three parts. The first is the background story providing a detailed context surrounding the writing of the works. It also gives details of methodology and the origins of each wor …

The first thorough examination of the most renowned and influential organist in early twentieth-century Germany and of his complex relationship to his country’s tumultuous and shifting sociopolitical …

This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner’s wife of 30 years, reveals her as a self-assured woman and artist who was vital to her husband’s creative life. When Richard Wagner first met Minna Pla …

Updated to include details of the group’s recent concerts under the direction of Ralf Hutter. David Buckley examines the cult enigma that is Kraftwerk, including their beginnings in the avant-garde m …

From her childhood in Detroit to her professional career in New York City, American composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (1925–2000) lived a life of relentless creativity as a poet and writer, composer for da …