Pop, Rock

Originally published in 1978 as The Beach Boys and the California Myth, this groundbreaking study was both the first full-length book on the band and the first to recognize Brian Wilson as one of the …

The cultural history of one of rock’s greatest masterpieces told through the eyes of its creator. Tommy, Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture traces the development of one of rock music’s central master …

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964–1967. Combining literature, social history, and …

Leeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five years, they would rise fr …

Summer 1984. I’ve got the back lounge of this tour bus all to myself, partly because I’m the lead singer but more likely because it means the rest of the band won’t have to deal with me for the rest …

Majorlabelland and Assorted Oddities is comprised of an essay about hard rock bands in the eighties and nineties and their struggles with major record labels which resulted in several albums that hav …

Canned Heat's Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival …

Punk Rock examines the history of punk rock in its totality. Punk became a way of thinking about the role of culture and community in modern life. Punks forged real alternatives to producing popular …

A complete history of Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern, “the Birthplace of Canadian Rock, ” to coincide with its seventieth anniversary. Like the Queen Street strip that has been its home for sev …

This exploration of rock ‘n’ roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama, is based on the oral histories of musicians, their fans and professionals in the popular music industry. Collected over a t …