The rock critic’s newest book, More Real Life Rock: The Wilderness Years, 2014–2021 collects his Top 10 columns published between 2014 and 2021. Anything, anywhere it can be, is culture is his argument: Everyone’s a critic, including performers and colleagues and family members and, indeed, other critics.

In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, singer-songwriter Margo Price remembers the early days of motherhood and marriage, their chaos compounded by a late-living musical lifestyle.

The artist builds on the Afrofuturistic world from her 2018 album in a new short story collection titled The Memory Librarian. She tells NPR about her nightmare that inspired the project.

Charles R. Cross’s 'Room Full of Mirrors' takes a detailed look at the fascinating, all-too-short life of the legendary Jimi Hendrix.

In honor of Black History Month and our ‘00s theme day, the Rock and Roll Book Club is highlighting the 2017 memoir subtitled ‘TLC ‘n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage.’

In honor of Black History Month, we’re revisiting 'Lady Sings the Blues,' the autobiography Billie Holiday wrote with William Dufty in 1956.

A new band biography by the author of Beatles and Julia Child books may not be the Led Zeppelin book we need, but it certainly gets the job done.

'The Work' collects the complete lyrics the late Scott Hutchison wrote for his band Frightened Rabbit, along with some never-before-seen art.

'Lightning Striking,' by the Patti Smith Group’s Lenny Kaye, is a combination of memoir and history with an emphasis on the latter.

Clover Hope’s new book reads like an encyclopedia of extraordinary artists.