Rolling Stone editors review the best music books of 2025, including books about Cameron Crowe, Ozzy Osbourne, Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Tupac Shakur, and Bruce Springsteen.

"Lo Fi" author Liz Riggs rounds up two handfuls of novels, memoirs and nonfiction with music as the central theme Liz Riggs holds an MFA from NYU, and her work has been featured in "The Atlantic," ...

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Country music reached an inevitable crossroads in 2022. The dialogues around the genre's history of exclusion — from the disappearance of women from country radio beginning in the early 2000s to the ...

Books Dancing about architecture: Some great new books on music It's a great time to be a music fan that likes to read as titles related to all genres and eras seem to be flying off the presses, from ...

Teachers of all subjects and grade levels are facing unprecedented times, but music teachers have had to get especially creative with lessons. Because studies suggest that singing and playing wood ...

If you want to know the feeling of constantly failing… well, yes, you can read any number of musicians’ memoirs about their early years, but you can also try to keep up with the vast number of music ...

Award-winning journalist Danyel Smith has released an impressive blend of cultural commentary, history, and personal memoir with Shine Bright. Smith highlights how Black women’s voices have been ...

Every year, we read a lot of new music books, and it’s not only so that music-loving readers have holiday gift ideas for their loved ones, or just themselves; it also saves you time reading the bad or ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...