Along with “Beatles ‘66,” “Revolution in the Head,” “Love Me Do!” and Sheffield’s glorious “Dreaming the Beatles,” there’s “Tune In,” the first volume of Mark Lewisohn’s proposed Beatles trilogy.
Boys, Boys, Boys,” by Viv Albertine “The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop” by Jonathan Abrams “Lady Sings the Blues” by Billie Holiday and William Dufty “Mystery Train” by Greil Marcus “This Is Memorial Device” by David Keenan “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk” by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain “Words Without Music” by Philip Glass and “Love Is a Mix Tape” by Rob Sheffield (his beautiful book about his late wife Renée Crist, a wonderful writer and absolutely delightful person I was fortunate to know when I was her editor at Option magazine).Īlong with these riches, there are a slew of biographies, memoirs, oral histories and sweeping genre overviews to check out (including the upcoming “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” a graphic novel-style Velvet Underground biography by Koren Shadmi I’m looking forward to). Here are some off the top of my head (and I know I’ll regret not including a bunch of others as soon as this posts): “White Bicycles” by Joe Boyd “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop” by Jeff Chang “Miles: The Autobiography” by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe “Just Kids” by Patti Smith “Raise Up Off Me” by Hampton Hawes “Rip It Up and Start Again” by Simon Reynolds “Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley” by Timothy White “Los Lobos: Dream in Blue” by Chris Morris “Girl in a Band” by Kim Gordon “Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest” by Hanif Abdurraqib “Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. I’m especially drawn to books about groups I know next to nothing about, like “The Big Midweek” by Steve Hanley and Olivia Piekars about Hanley’s chaotic years in the Mark E. I love a good band bio in fact, I love these bios even when the book (or band) isn’t all that great. Mystery, romance, self-help, poetry? There are some sorts of books I consistently return to, even lugging completely inappropriate books along on vacation or spending Christmas Day deep in a super-depressing novel.īut when in need of a mental break, I often reach for books about music, bands and musicians. What is your go-to genre – that section of the bookshelf you search for when you need something comforting to read?
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