This Sunday is Mother's Day, and in honor of the occasion I talked with maybe the most famous rock star mom out there: Virginia Hanlon Grohl, mother of Dave Grohl. She's the author of the fascinating book 'From Cradle to Stage,' in which she profiles other moms of famous musicians. We talked about what she's learned over the course of the project.

Taylor Jenkins Reid's 'Daisy Jones & the Six' is a novel in the form of an oral history about a fictional '70s rock band. It will soon be a TV series, but in the meantime it makes juicy beach reading for fans of 'A Star is Born.'

As Mental Health Month begins, we're looking back at how ten past picks for the Rock and Roll Book Club have engaged mental health issues.

In 'Hijinx and Hearsay,' writer Martin Keller and photographer Greg Helgeson revisit their days as 'the Spud Boyz' covering Minnesota music for City Pages predecessor Sweet Potato.

In honor of Minnesota Music Month, we're revisiting a classic Prince book: Toure's 'I Would Die 4 U' (2013), which promises to explain 'why Prince became an icon.'

A lavish new book collects the photos Jerry Schatzberg took of Bob Dylan from 1965 to 1967 - most famously, the 'Blonde on Blonde' album cover.

'Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass' is accurately titled. It's not for bass beginners, but Rush fans and fellow bass collectors will love it.

You know Mark Mallman as a witty lyricist, but with 'The Happiness Playlist' he proves that he also shines as a prose writer. Here are several of the most memorable passages.

This week for our Rock and Roll Book Club, we're highlighting Wayne Kramer's memoir 'The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5 & My Life of Impossibilities.' How well do you know the history of Wayne Kramer and the MC5? Take our quiz based on information from the book.

Robin Green was the first woman writer to land on the masthead of Rolling Stone. In a freewheeling memoir, she looks back on an era that defined a generation.