In the beautiful and moving biography Janis: Her Life and Music, Holly George-Warren paints a complex portrait of singer Janis Joplin. Drawing on archival materials as well as interviews with Joplin’s ...

Sometimes listening to music isn’t enough. The most passionate music fans want to be integrated even further into the world of their favorite artists. If you count yourself among that pack, check out ...

I’ve got my head on the curb and I can’t produce a word… but I’ll Pretend: The Chrissie Hynde StoryUntil these biographies are written, we’d recommend these five music biographies for summer reading.

We’re very familiar with words and music. But words about music can be just as exciting. There is never a shortage of books about music -- memoirs, biographies, large-scale histories, critical ...

Back in 2012, The A.V. Club asked if there was life left in the world of music memoirs. On one hand, it was obviously a rhetorical question—is anyone really going to say, “No, no more autobiographies ...

Music touches the soul in a way that other mediums just can’t. When a singer speaks to someone through a song, the people listening feel their lives change in unspoken ways. Because of this tremendous ...