Goodbye 20th Century
A Biography of Sonic Youth



The definitive biography of Sonic Youth, architects of noise rock and the most beloved, longest-running house band of Alternative Nation

Re-make/Re-model
Becoming Roxy Music
Michael Bracewell


The generously illustrated inside account of how Bryan Ferry invented the legendary rock band Roxy Music, by “perhaps the most accomplished writer of his generation” (GQ)

Song Man
A Melodic Adventure, or, My Single-Minded Approach to Songwriting
Will Hodgkinson


Song Man is the endearing sequel to Will Hodgkinson’s Guitar Man, wherein our hero, having learned to play the guitar (badly) in six months, endeavors to unlock the process of songwriting and ultimately record a single.

To Live’s to Fly
The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt
John Kruth


To Live’s to Fly is the bracing, fully authorized biography of singer-songwriter-guitarist Townes Van Zandt (1944–1997), who wrote such classic songs as “If I Needed You” and “Waitin’ ’round to Die.”

Lonely Avenue:
The Unlikely Life & Times of Doc Pomus
Alex Halberstadt
Introductory note by Peter Guralnick

The “taut and affecting” (New York Times) story of the music legend who wrote “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” and “Viva Las Vegas”

Johnny Cash:
The Biography
Michael Streissguth


Insightful, thorough, and profound, Johnny Cash: The Biography is the truest portrait yet to emerge of this American icon.