“After having borrowed lines from Jimi Hendrix and English poets for all previous anniversary releases, Rune Grammofon struck out for this one until Kim Hiorthøy, well after the deadline, accidentally stumbled over Johnny Cash and Forever Words: The Unknown Poems (2016). Let's Put It To Music quite nails it when it comes to the basic idea of the book and how the label approach the whole process of making a record. As Tim Gane is quoted in Adrian Shaughnessy's introduction "a Stereolab record was never....

Sid is a fine writer and while he is most definitely a FAN, he also doesn’t write as a fanboy. There’s lots of interviews, insights, gossip and deep details. HUGE fun for those who admire the [on and off] 50 year run of this band and the musician(s) behind it.

“Sid Smith’s In The Court Of King Crimson: An Observation Over 50 Years traces King Crimson’s career from the 1960s underground scene to the present day, featuring interviews with all the principal musicians and people associated with...

“From trailer park punks to Pulitzer Prize winners, this is the untold story of a sleepy Navy town that became the unlikely gathering point for some of the most innovative, unclassifiable American artists of their time.
The late 60s arrival of Harry Partch -- hobo composer, iconoclast and inventor of instruments such as the Harmonic Canon and Quadrangularis Reversum -- jump started a revolution that was as much social as it was musical, drawing on the occult, self-realization and radical political...

Written by Steve & Alan Freeman, who wrote the legendary “Crack In The Cosmic Egg” book on German rock and “A Fistful Of Spaghetti” on Italian rock, this is a fun, in-depth, highly opinionated read!

Introduction, including: The French scene, Musique Concrète, The underground, The art of being French, etc., "Before it all began" by Jean-Jacques Birge, " A concise history " by Guigou Chenevier, "A voyage of discovery " by Andy Garibaldi, The French top 100, A short guided tour, including: setting...

“To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this much-loved LP, Bill Gubbins, the only photographer to document the Hot Rats sessions, to create The Making of Hot Rats, a deluxe, commemorative book packed with never-been-seen-before photos, interviews, and intimate insights into the creation of this masterwork.
"A movie for your ears" is how rock icon Frank Zappa first described his album Hot Rats, which remains, 50 years after its release, not only one of Zappa's most critically acclaimed and commercially..