Featured Stories
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Scott Weiland @ the Galaxy
20 December 2011 11:04 PM | No CommentsWeiland is notorious for his ever-changing looks and persona, but when he finally came out on stage at 10:40, he revealed an alter ego that no one was expecting.
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Dan Vickrey & Tender Mercies: The First Fresh Batch
20 December 2011 10:49 PM | No CommentsYou might remember a little band called Tender Mercies we folks at OCMM fell in love with last month, thanks to the band’s stellar debut album.
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Headshine @ House of Blues, Anaheim
17 December 2011 11:33 PM | No CommentsWhen you hear about a local band opening for legendary Bob Marley’s The Wailers, presumably you have high expectations for that band’s talent.
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Musical Reading Archive
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[Musical Reading] Bob Dylan in America
Posted on October 29, 2010 | No CommentsOne of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years. -
[Musical Reading] Music Law: How to Run Your Band’s Business
Posted on October 22, 2010 | No CommentsThe No. 1 bestselling business book for bands! -
[Musical Reading] Listen to This
Posted on October 8, 2010 | No CommentsAlex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, showcases the best of his writing from more than a decade at The New Yorker. -
[Musical Reading] Glow in the Dark
Posted on October 1, 2010 | No CommentsAre you ready to glow in the dark? Crash landed alone on an unknown planet for the entirety of his Glow in the Dark set with huge space scapes behind him, Kanye West takes you on a musical and visual odyssey that no antihero has taken you on before. -
[Musical Reading] Composed: A Memoir
Posted on October 1, 2010 | No CommentsFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence. -
[Musical Reading] The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Posted on September 24, 2010 | No CommentsOrder now from Amazon! Title: The Rose that Grew from Concrete Author: Tupac Shakur Product Description (Amazon): Tupac Shakur’s most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death... -
[Musical Reading] The Way I Am
Posted on September 24, 2010 | No CommentsOrder now from Amazon! Title: The Way I Am Author: Eminem Product Desecription (Amazon): Fiercely intelligent, relentlessly provocative, and prodigiously gifted, Eminem is known as much for his enigmatic persona... -
[Musical Readings] Slash
Posted on September 17, 2010 | No CommentsFrom one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. -
[Musical Reading] The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
Posted on September 10, 2010 | No CommentsIn one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself. -
[Musical Reading] All You Need to Know About the Music Business
Posted on September 10, 2010 | No CommentsSince the advent of file-sharing technology in the late 1990s, the music industry has been challenged to reinvent itself. What has it done? -
[Musical Reading] Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
Posted on September 3, 2010 | No CommentsGrowing up in the eighties, you were surrounded by mysteries. These were the years of MTV and John Hughes movies, the era of big dreams and bigger shoulder pads. -
[Musical Reading] Motley Crue: The Dirt – Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band
Posted on September 3, 2010 | No CommentsWhiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life of Mötley Crüe, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. -
[Musical Reading] Life
Posted on August 27, 2010 | No CommentsWith The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. -
[Musical Reading] Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
Posted on August 27, 2010 | No CommentsWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. -
[Musical Reading] My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses
Posted on August 20, 2010 | No CommentsAfter forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints, and a debilitating stroke, Steven Adler, the most self-destructive rock star ever, is ready to share the shattering untold truth in My Appetite for Destruction. -
[Musical Reading] You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup
Posted on August 20, 2010 | No CommentsThe world stopped in 1970 when Paul McCartney announced that he was through with the Beatles. His statement not only marked the end of the band's remarkable career, but also seemed to signal the demise of an era of unprecedented optimism in social history. -
[Book Club Review] Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Posted on June 11, 2010 | 1 CommentDan Millman’s Way of the Peaceful Warrior serves as a self-help book in disguise. Millman is the author as well as the protagonist. The book is based on his college experience at UC Berkeley. At the beginning, it appears as though Millman is Mr. All American. Big man on campus, accomplished gymnast, educated, etc., though something is missing. It isn’t until he wanders into a gas station in the middle of the night and meets Socrates, the gas attendant, that he realizes something in his life must change. -
[Nisha's Book Club] This is Your Brain on Music
Posted on May 5, 2010 | No CommentsThis is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession is a nonfiction work by Daniel J. Levitin that focuses on the science behind music and how our brain functions to both understand and enjoy it. As Levitin puts it, the book drives a neuropsychological perspective on how music affects our brain, our mind, our thoughts and our spirit.