Our favorite books this year (in no particular order) included definitive memoirs by music figures as varied as Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, and Cameron Crowe; chronicles of bands long gone and those ...

When it comes to books about music, there's a vast array out there that would take a lifetime to read through. So with World ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We say it every year: There are way too many music books for any human to keep track of, let alone read. Yet this year has seen a ...

What does music have to do with joy? Daniel Chua explores the durable relationship between the two in “Music & Joy.” Mr. Chua, a professor of musicology at the University of Hong Kong, observes that ...

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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 ...

If you’ve got a holiday season gift card burning a hole in your pocket and would like some new (or new-ish) music books to read, here are some potential choices for your reading list. While visiting ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week we speak with Rolling Stone pop music critic Rob Sheffield about ...

Every year, we read a lot of new music books, and it’s not only so that music-loving readers have holiday gift ideas for their loved ones, or just themselves; it also saves you time reading the bad or ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...