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Book Review: Decoding “Despacito”–An Oral History of Latin Music
By Leila Cobo (paperback) $14.95 From the salsa of the streets of New York City, to Puerto Rican reggaeton and bilingual chart-toppers, this is an ... -
Book Review: Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker
By Harry Manaka (paperback) $20.00 If you think you know all there is to know about L.A.’s music history, you need to check this book ... -
Book Review: DJ Method
By DJ Bizzon (paperback) $12.99 A thorough, illustrated and easy-to-follow primer for the beginning DJ, this handbook includes everything from setup to scratching techniques to ... -
Book Review: Hollywood Eden
By Joel Selvin (hardcover) $28.00 Selvin captures the early ‘60s Los Angeles pop-music scene, its highs and lows, its hits and misses, its epics and ... -
Book Review: Book on the Dance Floor
In the Spring of 1997, the promotion of the HIStory album seemed as if it would continue for quite a while, especially since Michael Jackson’s ... -
Book Review: Taylor Swift 'evermore' Piano • Vocal • Guitar Songbook
Here are 17 songs for piano, voice and guitar from the second album created during the pandemic lockdown by Taylor Swift. The songs, a conceptual ... -
Book Review: The Last Soul Company: Malaco Records
Having marked its 50th anniversary, Malaco is the oldest continuously-run indie label in America, and the world’s biggest and most important gospel label. The Malaco ... -
Book Review: How to Build an Excellent Child
Meredith Day distills her lifelong experiences as a mom and a child entertainment talent manager into this compact advice book, a “parenting operations manual,” which ... -
Book Review: Dan Alexander Audio–A Vintage Odyssey
Dan Alexander Audio reveals the origins and history of vintage recording gear, told by the man who coined the term. It discusses the products of 22 ... -
Book Review: Deep Cuts Trivia: Intelligence Test for the Musically Obsessed
The author, aka Bobby the Beerslayer, brings a consistent sense of fun and imagination to his book, a collection of 400 authoritatively curated music trivia ...