Our favorites include Kathleen Hanna’s riot grrrl memoir, a lively document of musicians’ snacking habits, and an essential ...

Meditations on the way songs affect us at the deepest level, and reflections on the joys of performing and composing.

It’s like we are back at the stage where the far right are strong enough and scary enough that it’s not possible to sit in a ...

It's never easy to pinpoint the exact origin of a musical genre — styles of music come into existence over the course of many ...

"If you choose to support this book, that’s your right," De La Soul write. "We just want it to be clear that we do not and we are exploring all of our legal options." ...

De La Soul brought a necessary playfulness to hip-hop in 1989, but battles with the music industry dimmed that light. Marcus ...

However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Graphic by Chris Panicker There are enough great books about music each year to fill a library.

Mr. Chua’s goal is to “retrofit” parts of these historical conceptions of music for use in our everyday lives. Running throughout the book is a note of playfulness that makes for lively ...

Alex Bleeker & Luke Pyenson: Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians Before Nashville singer-songwriter Alice Randall touched a pen to paper to outline a memoir, she knew her book ...

One program, however, has gone overlooked, and music scholar Sheryl Kaskowitz with her new book A Chance to Harmonize: How FDR’s Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great ...

For his latest book, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère ... the rise of an indispensable band and the evolution of its music. His blog, The Shatzkin Files, was an essential read for industry ...