Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Gorillaz Almanac' celebrates 20 years of the world's biggest virtual band March 11, 2021 When you hear the word 'almanac,' who do you think of? Old farmers? Eric Eskola? Cathy Wurzer? Joe Mauer? It'll probably take you a while to get to Damon Albarn's animated band Gorillaz, but in fact, they now have their very own Almanac.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls: Women, Music and Fame' March 4, 2021 When you've hung out with Beyonce, Joni Mitchell, Rihanna, Adele, Mariah Carey, and Stevie Nicks, your book about 'women, music, and fame' is pretty much guaranteed to be worth reading.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey On + Off the Record' February 25, 2021 Neal Karlen, a Minneapolis journalist who hung out with Prince many times over the years, has written a Prince book like none other: a personal reminisce full of wide-ranging musings on the man and the mystery behind the music.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll' February 18, 2021 Maureen Mahon's essential new book chronicles decades of Black women making key contributions to a genre that's systematically erased their presence.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'The Big Life of Little Richard' February 11, 2021 Mark Ribowsky's new biography offers a concise summary of the life and career of a man who will forever resist being summarized.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s' February 4, 2021 'Soul is Black,' said Aretha Franklin, connecting two words that encompass vast worlds of meaning and experience. In her new book 'The Meaning of Soul,' scholar Emily J. Lordi explores the ways in which soul music has expressed Black resilience since the Civil Rights era.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Me and Sister Bobbie' chronicles Willie Nelson's closest bond January 28, 2021 In a joint memoir, Willie Nelson and his sister Bobbie celebrate a familial, personal, and musical relationship that's sustained them.
'This Thing Called Life' author Neal Karlen on Prince: The man and the myths January 21, 2021 Minnesota journalist Neal Karlen, who interviewed and spoke with Prince many times over the decades, is the author of a new memoir: 'This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey On and Off the Record.'
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics' January 21, 2021 In a sprawling oral history, Dylan Jones traces all the roads of '80s pop back to Britain's New Romantic subculture: a movement that retained the energy, but not the nihilism, of punk.
Rock and Roll Book Club: 'Let Love Rule' is Lenny Kravitz's origin story January 14, 2021 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.