book Archive
24 Feb 2023
Hundred-word Reviews, February 2023: Books
These books are all worth your time. ‘Nuff said, but then here’s more. Michael Goldberg – Addicted to Noise Goldberg is a widely acclaimed music journalist who has been at […]
16 Jan 2023
Joel Selvin and ‘Sly & the Family Stone: An Oral History’
In 1998, Joel Selvin was well into his third decade as pop music critic/journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle; he had also authored several books. But his 1998 book, Sly […]
09 Jan 2023
Book Review: Pink Floyd: The Animals Tour – A Visual History
With both the recent 45th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd’s Animals and the reissue of that album in upgraded format, now is the perfect time to revisit the […]
14 Dec 2022
Musoscribe’s Best of 2022: Books
2022 has been a stellar year for music-related books. For much of the pandemic era( and a good chunk of this year) it looked as if the well had, if […]
13 Dec 2022
Books by Bill Kopp
Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave by Bill Kopp / Published 2022 / HoZac Books San Francisco-based 415 Records was a groundbreaking independent record label […]
30 Nov 2022
Book Review: The Who: Concert Memories from the Classic Years, 1964 to 1976
Author: Edoardo Genzolini Schiffer Publishing 2022, 306 pp. $59.99 (and well worth it) In the third decade of the 21st century, it’s challenging to come up with a book that […]
21 Oct 2022
Taping the Grateful Dead (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… Complete as Can Be It’s not as if Rodriguez is any kind of a newcomer to the Grateful Dead and their work. “I’ve been researching the […]
20 Oct 2022
Taping the Grateful Dead (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Tale of the Tapes Rodriguez made sure to maintain an open mind while researching for the book, but he admits that he began with at least […]
19 Oct 2022
Taping the Grateful Dead (Part 1 of 3)
After All is Said and Done: Mark Rodriguez and Taping the Grateful Dead Deadheads didn’t invent audience recording of concerts. As Clinton Heylin chronicles in his exhaustive 1994 book, Bootleg: […]
11 Jul 2022
Bay Area Book Tour This Week
The Disturbing the Peace book tour is coming to the Bay Area this week. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it: Three events in two days. Come join the fun. Signed […]