Last week I wrote a post mentioning how I had been reading Guitar Man by Will Hodgkinson (and how it inspired me to start learning guitar again with Next Level Guitar.) I actually finished the book not long after making that post (this is probably the quickest I’ve read a book in a long time) […]

I read Music, The Brain, & Ecstasy by Robert Jourdain last month and I really enjoyed it. If you’re interested in both “thinking about thinking” and “thinking about music” like I am then I think you’ll enjoy this book as well. It is recommended.
What follows is clear evidence that I’m an even worse reviewer […]

EDIT: Now the Kindle DX also has global wireless service.
What’s Amazon’s Kindle have to do with music?
Well not too much directly, I suppose. But I read a lot of books about music and many of those books are available on the Kindle. On top of that, you can subscribe to some music blogs and […]

Bob Dylan Revisited is an interesting new (out on 11/16/09) Bob Dylan book in which 13 leading illustrators have made the lyrics to some of his greatest songs come to life as graphic art. Listed below are the artists and the songs they “visually interpreted” for this project.
Graphic Artist - “Song”
Thierry Muraty - “Blowin in […]

As a freakishly huge Beatles fan (not in weight, I’m only 160 pounds) I’ve read far more than my share of Beatles books, in fact I can’t remember a good number of the books I’ve read (I’m assuming they are the not so good ones, but maybe it’s just that I have a bad memory.) […]