Here & Now ‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with author and musician Bob Spitz about his new book “ The Rolling Stones: The ...

As an artist, writing a bio for yourself can be a difficult task. As difficult as writing is, writing about yourself can be even harder, but an effective bio is key to communicating to the world why ...

If you want to make it as an independent artist in the music business, it's important to diversify. One avenue many may not consider is to go into publishing. Not music publishing, but actual ...

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 ...

Audio Books is a column focused on the latest books about music. Every month, Grant Sharples sits down with authors, journalists, and poets to discuss the latest music memoirs, biographies, essay ...

Biography: KISStory, will be a four-hour, two-night event that airs on Sunday, June 27 and Monday, June 28 from 9 to 11 p.m. ET KISS is gearing up to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at the band's ...

Even allowing for the fact that authors don't always get to choose their titles, Nancy Spada's new "Beyond the Handsomeness: A Biography of Thomas Schippers" (Universal Music) hits a sour note. Her ...

Holly George-Warren’s “Janis: Her Life and Music” teeters between tragedy and triumph even before singer Janis Joplin injects a lethal dose of heroin five times more pure than that to which she was ...

Stephanie Wicker has been a fixture in Northwest rock since the early ’90s, both as a musician and a self-taught sound engineer. A talented guitarist best known for co-founding the now-defunct Western ...

Most extraordinary of all musical geniuses was Austria’s Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Starting his career as a four-fold infant prodigy (harpsichordist, violinist, organist, composer), he wrote, during ...