HEARD IT IN A LOVE SONG
By Tracey Garvis Graves
Newly divorced and lonely, Layla cautiously gets to know a newly-separated dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where she teaches music. Equally cautious and confused about dating, Layla and Josh decide to be friends with the potential for something more. Sounds sensible and way too simple—but when two people are on the rebound, is it heartbreak or happiness that’s a love song away?
THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV
By Dawnie Walton
When Opal Jewel meets British singer-songwriter Nev Charles at an open-mike night, they start to ascend the rungs to rock stardom. But when a concert tragically ends in racial violence, they disappear from the spotlight. Years later, music journalist S. Sunny Shelton decides to curate an oral history about them in time for a hopeful reunion. When Sunny’s interviews unveil the truth behind the group’s troubled past, it seems like this story of a band lost to time may end in disaster.
UTOPIA AVENUE
By David Mitchell
Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, they embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho, a TV debut on Top of the Pops, the cusp of chart success, glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel, Laurel Canyon, and San Francisco during the autumn of ‘68.
LET ME HEAR A RHYME
By Tiffany D. Jackson
In 1998, hip-hop reigned supreme on the music charts and in the streets of Brooklyn. Unfortunately, the violence plaguing the community claimed the life of Steph Davis, an up-and-coming rapper. After discovering a treasure trove of Steph’s recordings and notebooks full of his rhymes, his sister and two best friends set out to make Steph famous posthumously. They catch the attention of a high-powered music executive who is all business and plays no games.
DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
By Taylor Jenkins Reid
When singer Daisy Jones meets Billy Dunne of the band The Six, the two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a producer puts them together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies.
THE UNSINKABLE GRETA JAMES
By Jennifer E. Smith
Right after the sudden death of her mother–her first and most devoted fan–and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. Struggling to recover, she agrees to join her father on a week-long Alaskan cruise, which becomes a journey of discovery for them both as they work to heal old wounds, giving her the confidence she needs to move forward.
CALLING ME HOME: GRAM PARSONS AND THE ROOTS OF COUNTRY ROCK
By Bob Kealing
Traces the entire arc of Parsons’s career, emphasizing his southern roots. Drawing on dozens of new interviews as well as unpublished letters and photographs provided by Parsons’s family and rare images from legendary photojournalist Ted Polumbaum, Kealing examines the remarkable array of musicians and friends with whom Parsons collaborated and from whom he gained inspiration. Even the most stalwart Parsons fans will find something new and revealing.
MAJOR LABELS: A HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC IN SEVEN GENRES
By Kelefa Sanneh
Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In “Major Labels,” Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music—as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities.
THE FIRST RULE OF PUNK
By Celia C. Pérez
There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school—you can’t fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On day one, Malú inadvertently upset the school’s queen bee, violates the school’s dress code, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better as long as she remembers the first rule of punk: be yourself.
GOLDI ROCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
By Corey Rosen Schwartz & Beth Coulton
Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear know how to rock! But they need a new singer, so they audition everyone—the Three Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and more. To their dismay, no one seems just right. Could the perfect lead singer be the mysterious girl sleeping on Baby Bear’s keyboard?
(0) comments
Welcome to the discussion.
Log In
Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.
Don't Threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
Be Truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything.
Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism that is degrading to another person.
Be Proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts.
Share with Us. We'd love to hear eyewitness accounts, the history behind an article.