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 ...

Music has provided a deep well of inspiration for comics artists ever since KISS appeared in the first Marvel Comics Super Special (printed in real KISS blood!) in 1977. Music subcultures and fandoms ...

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 ...

"Water Boy” was already an old song when the folksinger Odetta performed her version of it at Carnegie Hall in 1960. Originating with African American convicts in Jim Crow Georgia, or so the story ...

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.

Musicians Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) and June Carter (Reese Witherspoon) perform in WALK THE LINE. TM & 2005 Twentieth Century Fox / digital file Love & Mercy, based on the life of musician Brian ...

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 ...

There are as many ways to approach an artist’s story as there are to compose a song. But music memoirs and biographies typically follow a template — the humble beginnings, the meteoric rise and the ...

A new biography and film about Yoko Ono offer more opportunities to assess her contributions to culture. Two pop music critics debate if they’re worthy of their subject. By Jon Pareles and Lindsay ...

Music touches the soul in a way that other mediums just can’t. When a singer speaks to someone through a song, the people ...