Tracking the books you read is well-trodden App Store ground. So is making music playlists. But what if you combined the two?

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 ...

Our favorite books this year (listed here in alphabetical order) included deep dives into groundbreaking groups like R.E.M. and De La Soul, explorations of scene’s like New York’s Greenwich Village ...

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 ...

We say it every year: There are way too many music books for any human to keep track of, let alone read. Yet this year has seen a backbreaking pile of welcome additions to the boundless stacks, just a ...

Our favorite books this year (in no particular order) included definitive memoirs by music figures as varied as Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, and Cameron Crowe; chronicles of bands long gone and those ...

When summarized, Taste in Music: Eating on Tour With Indie Musicians sounds pretty straightforward: a document of musicians’ snacking habits on the road. Across its essays, though, some of the biggest ...