Regurgitator Unit (33 1/3/ Bloomsbury)
Many have claimed the album is dead. Since 2009, when Ian Astbury of band The…
Browsing: Book reviews
The Vanishing Acts Almanac – Olde Smiddy (self published)
Music is littered with mythical stories of outrageous personalities, ridiculous behaviour and earnest musical conceits…
The Miles Davis Lost Quintet And Other Revolutionary Ensembles – Bob Gluck (The University of Chicago Press/ Footprint Books)
There are lots of books out there blindly extolling the genius of Miles Davis. Not…
Herzog by Ebert (University of Chicago Press/ Footprint Books)
German filmmaker Werner Herzog loves an audience, and few audiences are as warm and welcoming…
2023: A Trilogy by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Faber/ Allen & Unwin)
Everything is slippery and everything is meta. Meaning and myth are virtually indistinguishable in this…
Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory. Edited by Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore and Sean Redmond (Bloomsbury)
The news of David Bowie’s recent passing was jolting and unexpected. The global response was…
The Golden Age of Independant Music- Kim Lajoie
Kim Lajoie is a Music Producer and artist mentor, now author who has been active…
Journey to The Centre of the Cramps – Dick Porter (Omnibus Press/ Pan Macmillan Australia)
The Cramps are one of the more unique American bands of the last thirty-five years.…
Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) – John Cage (Siglio Press)
I view this book as a conversation starter kit for your brain. Sure it’s a…
Animal Music: Sound & Song in the Natural World – Edited by Tobias Fischer & Lara Cory (Strange Attractor)
Naturalist sound music is a well-established form and amongst the types of practitioners is immersive…
Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild Obsessive Hunt For The World’s Rarest 78rpm Records – Amanda Petrusich (Scribner/ Simon & Schuster)
Early on in Do Not Sell At Any Price, the author Amanda Petrusich, a music…
Black Fire! New Spirits! Images of a Revolution: Radical Jazz in the USA 1960 – 75 (Soul Jazz Books)
Black Fire! New Spirits! arrives looking like the ultimate radical jazz boxset. Presented in a…
Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression – Richard Havers (Thames & Hudson)
Since 1939 Blue Note has established a reputation as the jazz purists label. For artists,…
On The Periphery: David Sylvian – A Biography: The Solo Years – Christopher Young (Malin Publishing)
The main issue for author/ journalist Christopher Young is how do you write a biography…
Der Klang Der Familie: Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall
Der Klang Der Familie is a book length oral history that went on to inform…