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 ...

"Water Boy” was already an old song when the folksinger Odetta performed her version of it at Carnegie Hall in 1960. Originating with African American convicts in Jim Crow Georgia, or so the story ...

Sometimes listening to music isn’t enough. The most passionate music fans want to be integrated even further into the world of their favorite artists. If you count yourself among that pack, check out ...

Justin Bieber’s mom, Pattie Mallette recently signed a deal to publish a tell-all memoir about her role in her son’s rise to fame called Nowhere But Up: The Story of Justin Bieber’s Mom.

Music has provided a deep well of inspiration for comics artists ever since KISS appeared in the first Marvel Comics Super Special (printed in real KISS blood!) in 1977. Music subcultures and fandoms ...

We’re very familiar with words and music. But words about music can be just as exciting. There is never a shortage of books about music -- memoirs, biographies, large-scale histories, critical ...

It may seem counterintuitive, but not all musicians are music buffs. Peter Wolf is. A short interview will turn into a long one, because he’ll go off on an interesting tangent about a coveted record, ...

Yesterday, Tony and Emmy winner Billy Porter released his new autobiography, Unprotected. As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Porter's debut book is already a best seller, hitting #1 on the Amazon ...