Showing posts with label Best Music Books 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best Music Books 2015. Show all posts

Friday, January 1, 2016

The 45 Best Music Books of 2015

DEAR ME: Memoirs We've Been Waiting For Since the late-1970's
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde

DEAR YOU: Memoirs of Musicians from Other Musicians
Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chestnutt by Kirstin Hersh
Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes

BIZARRE BAZAAR: The Fiber Optics of the Music Industry
Piracy by Stephen R. Witt

SKULLS + ROSES: More Than You Will Ever Need to Know About the Grateful Dead

GET GROKKED: The Sixties, Man
by Doug Bradley & Craig Werner

THE PRICE OF THE TICKET: Music and America's Racial Divides
by Mark Ribowsky

GOTHAMISTS: "New Nork, New Nork"
ed. by Richard Kraft & Joel Biel

GURRLS

FOR THE HIPSTER COFFEE TABLE
It All Dies Anyway: L.A., Jabberjaw, and the End of an Era
by Brian Ray Turcotte, Michelle Carr & Gary P. Dent

INDIER THAN THOU

SUBBACULTCHA
by Oliver Wang

OUTLIERS
Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music ed. by Renee Levine Packer & Mary Jane Leach

SKIPPETY-BOP!
Free Jazz/Black Power (reprint) by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli,

FUTURE PULSES
by Michaelangelo Matos