100bookshelf: Pamela Des Barres, I’m With The Band

Pamela Des Barres is now very well-known for having been a prominent groupie to some of music history’s most famous (or infamous) rock stars during the cultural explosion of 1960s California, but her book I’m With The Band is a far more innocent affair than that reputation implies. Unlike some of her groupie contemporaries, Des [...]

100bookshelf: Mötley Crüe, The Dirt

Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band is, despite my initial assumptions, a really great music book. Even if you haven’t read it, I’m sure you’ve heard the stories about the band hanging out with Ozzy Osbourne, snorting ants and whatnot. Yes, it’s all in there and it is indeed [...]

100bookshelf: Brett Milano, Vinyl Junkies

Brett Milano’s Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting is one of my all-time favorite music books. To be honest, it’s not really all that much about music itself, but about the sub-culture of obsessive vinyl collectors. Milano journeys into the depth of the vinyl junkie world, meeting all sorts along the way and mostly asking [...]

100bookshelf: Rob Sheffield & Mark Oliver Everett

I’m a great big dork and love reading about music almost as much as I love listening to it. I’d like to tell you about some of the music books I’ve enjoyed, on a monthly basis, if you’d like to hear about them. To start things off this month, I’ve got two books I’ve recently [...]

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