John Lennon Box Of Vision – Book Review

Riding in on the coattails of 2009’s Beatles reissue madness, EMI celebrated what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday with spiffy remasters of the singer’s catalog. As with the Beatles,...

Babysitting A Band On The Rocks – Book Review

It seems like everyone who ever worked in and around the music business is writing a book. As if it isn't enough to post pictures of rock stars on...

Rush: Album By Album – Book Review

If we were to compare famed music journalist Martin Popoff’s Rush: Album By Album latest work to a Rush album, it would likely be Presto. In other words, it’s...

Patch & Tweak With Moog – Book Review

In the annals of synthesizer innovation, pros and amateur musicians both bow to the Moog. The synthesizer that bears its inventor’s name — Robert Moog...

Matt Sorum | Double Talkin’ Jive – Book Review

Sure, he has played with The Cult, Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, and most recently joined Billy Gibbons on the ZZ Top guitarist’s “Big Bad Blues” tour. But we...

A Devil On One Shoulder And An Angel On The Other: The Story Of...

Not many guys get the well-researched, behind-the-scenes dirt that Greg Prato does for his new book: A Devil On One Shoulder And An Angel On The Other: The Story Of Shannon...

Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, And Drugs With The Grateful Dead –...

I first saw the Grateful Dead at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, September 1977. At that time in my life, as a junior in high school, my musical...

Jerry Weintraub | When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead – Book Review

Did you know that former rock manager, film producer and chairman and CEO of United Artists Jerry Weintraub went to Leonid Brezhnev's funeral at the Kremlin and had better seats than...

Waiting On The Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, And Goddesses – Book Review

Peter Wolf may be best known as the lead singer for the J. Geils Band. His colorful life, however, has always outstripped his rock star persona. His long-awaited memoir,...

Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers: The Rise Of Motörhead – Book Review

Martin Popoff’s Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers: The Rise Of Motörhead is a smack-you-in-the-face, pound-the-point-home, warts-and-all bio about what is arguably the heaviest metal band to ever plod across...