There are the Unseen Moments, Too: A Guest Post from Amy Fleisher Madden, author of Negatives
My career in emo has, at this point, passed the two-decade mark, and if I’ve learned anything thus far, it’s…
Music
Five Minutes with Geddy Lee
You share a lot about your family’s history in your memoir, My Effin’ Life — how did knowing about their…
Shelves + Soundtracks: Fabulous Book and Vinyl Pairings for Right Now
*One**Two**Three* *Onetwothree* Whether you’ve been a fan of Dave Grohl’s since the Nirvana days or a die-hard fan of Foo…
Press Play on this Mixtape of Music Audiobooks
I’ve been a lifelong reader, but my other love has always been music (don’t tell books or my boss that…
“By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time.” Mary J. Blige
This year celebrates the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop and highlights the key people who have helped make the genre. From…
Build Your Midnights #TBR with These Taylor Swift Song to Book Pairings
Are you obsessively listening to Taylor Swift’s Midnights on repeat? So am I! And since it’s on repeat, I sat down with…
Books I Recommend Reading After Listening to Everything I Know About Love : A Guest Post from Laufey
Everything I Know About Love is an album for dreamers that see the beauty in the mundane — those who…
The Beauty of Movie Soundtracks Doesn’t Fade Over Time
Anyone who has ever sat through the credits of their favorite films and sees hundreds of names scroll past can…
GRAMMY Song of the Year Nominees As Books
I talked to a bunch of booksellers, and we have paired the Song of the Year nominees with great books…
10 Essential Books about The Beatles
This holiday season is a special year for The Beatles fan. At the center of it all is Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: 1956…
10 Essential Books About The Beatles
This holiday season is a special year for The Beatles fan. At the center of it all is Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: 1956…
Vinyl Day Returns to Your Local Barnes & Noble
Music lovers, mark your calendars: Barnes & Noble is bringing back Vinyl Day to stores nationwide from November 22-24. It’s…
10 Offbeat and Groundbreaking Musicals in the Criterion Collection
Singing and dancing…what’s not to love? Though the genre has had its ups and downs in film history, there’s a…
Your Soundtrack to Prince’s The Beautiful Ones
The night that Prince died, I went for a walk through my neighborhood in Minneapolis, the city of his birth.…
Your Guide to a Star-Studded Season of Music Memoir and Biography
A oft-repeated aphorism, frequently misquoted or mistakenly attributed, tells us that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” the…
These Vinyl Weekend Offers & Exclusives Are Record-Breaking (But Not Like That)
Listen up: Vinyl Weekend is back! From July 12-14, Barnes & Noble is celebrating the best format in music (don’t…
15 New Vinyl Releases to Spin This Spring
After what felt like an endless winter, spring is finally here! At last, we can put our coats and hoodies…
Fictional Musicians We Wish Were Real
You can’t read music. Okay, maybe you can read music, in the sense that you can look at sheet music…