As extraordinary as Lenny Kravitz's career has been, the quarter-century leading up to his 1989 breakout may have been even more extraordinary. In 'Let Love Rule,' the rock star tells the first part of his life story.

The prompt might seem morbid, but Mike Ayers got some fascinating responses when he asked famous musicians to pick 'One Last Song' they'd want to hear before they die.

From penetrating biographies to fascinating time capsules to icons' memoirs, 2020 had no shortage of fantastic books about music. Jay Gabler picks the top ten.

There's never a bad time to learn more about legendary singer Darlene Love, but Christmas might be the most apt time. This week, Jay revisits the 1998 memoir by the artist who performed the most critically-acclaimed holiday song of all time - and many, many more hits, both as lead and as a backing vocalist.

Radiohead's 'Kid A,' regarded by many as one of the greatest albums of the 2000s, turns 20 this year. In a new book, Steven Hyden writes about how the album speaks to its tumultuous times.

Michael Jackson. Madonna. Prince. Every year has good music, but somehow 1984 reached an apex of pop excellence. In a wide-ranging new book, Michaelangelo Matos examines how the magic happened.

'I think if there's any person who can still bring this country together,' my aunt said on a recent family Zoom, 'it's Dolly Parton.'

Marcus J. Moore's new book comes billed as 'the first cultural biography' of Kendrick Lamar. It's certain 'The Butterfly Effect' won't be the last.

When Lucy O'Brien and her friends started a rock band in the punk era, they didn't know any women artists to serve as models. As a music journalist, O'Brien would go on to write a book to help ensure no future artists would lack for knowledge of women's foundational goal in rock, pop, and hip-hop.

A press release for Lana Del Rey's new poetry book, 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass,' approvingly quotes an NME review that describes the book as 'a new offshoot of the very specific world she's created as Lana Del Rey.'