books
Jonny Banger
Sports Banger : Lifestyles of the poor, rich & famous
Gordon King
When Does the Mind-bending Start? The Life & Times Of World Of Twist
Jesmyn Ward
Let Us Descend
Dann McDorman
West Heart Kill
Melissa Broder
Death Valley
BRITNEY SPEARS
The Woman In Me
Chris Palmer
The Fresh Prince Project
RICHARD HOUGHTON
Wish You Were Here: A People’s History of Pink Floyd
Rick Rubin
A Way of Being
Daniel Rachel
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation
johnny marr
Marr's Guitars
Jean-Jacques Burnel
Strangler In The Light
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton, Songteller : My Life In Lyrics
Bethan Bide & Lucie Whitmore
Fashion City : How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style
Glen Matlock
Triggers: A Life in Music
Brian Bilston
And So This Is Christmas
Henn Kim
I Need Art, Reality is Not Enough: An illustrated memoir
Richard Toye
Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain
David Remnick
Holding the Note
Michael Cragg
Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party
Weird Walk
Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
George Saunders
Liberation Day
Mary Gabriel
Madonna: A Rebel Life - The Biography
Slavoj Zizek
Freedom
Demetrios Matheou
Mean Streets
Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner (20th Anniversary Edition)
Kristi Irene Mckim
Rushmore
Andrew Screen
THE BOOK OF BEASTS Folklore, Popular Culture, and Nigel Kneale’s ATV TV Series
Daisy Lafarge
Lovebug
Marshall Gu
Krautrock (33 1/3 book)
Alison Rumfitt
BRAINWYRMS
Jordan Peele
Out There Screaming – An Anthology Of New Black Horror
P.P. ARNOLD
Soul Survivor - The Autobiography
Lol Tolhurst
Goth: A History
Madeline Miller
Circe (5th Anniversary Edition)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before We Say Goodbye
Paul Simpson
Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism: The Teardrop Explodes, Care, The Wild Swans, And Beyond
Bernie Taupin
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me
Adeshina Afolayan & Toyin Falola
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy
will sergeant
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .
Douglas MacIntyre and Grant McPhee
Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984)
Miki Berenyi
Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success
Alex Pappademas & Joan LeMay
Quantum Criminals - Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan
Marie Fredriksson & Helena von Zweigbergk
Listen to My Heart : Life, Love & Roxette
Ian Glasper
Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans
bez
buzzin'
Frightened Rabbit
Living In Colour: The Art of Scott Hutchison
David Cavanagh
The Creation Records Story
tom hagler
We Could Be : Bowie and his Heroes
vashti bunyan
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live
Graeme Thomson
Themes for Great Cities - A New History of Simple Minds
Mid Year Staff Picks 2023
our favourite releases of the year so far
PAUL MCCARTNEY
1964: Eyes of the Storm
Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Graham Coxon
Verse, Chorus, Monster!
Nick Soulsby
Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations With Coil
Geezer Butler (black sabbath)
Into the Void : From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond
MOONBUILDING MAGAZINE
issue 3
RICHARD HOUGHTON
Tell Everyone: A People’s History of the Faces
Robin Pecknold (fleet foxes)
Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes
Jarvis Cocker
Good Pop, Bad Pop : The highly original memoir from Jarvis Cocker
simon goddard
Bowie Odyssey 73
Nige Tassell
Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? An indie adventure
LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
Susanna Hoffs (the bangles)
This Bird Has Flown
Michael Hann and The Hold Steady
The Gospel Of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels
William L. Weir
BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (33 1/3 book)
David Hepworth
Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney)
JANELLE MONAE
THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
Kae tempest
Divisible By Itself and One
Kate Bush
HOW TO BE INVISIBLE: Selected Lyrics
Steven Wilson
Limited Edition of One
Darryl W. Bullock
David Bowie Made Me Gay : 100 Years of LGBT Music
Copeland Forbes
Reggae My Life Is
John Cooper Clarke
I Wanna Be Yours
Michelle Zauner (japanese breakfast)
Crying in H Mart
Jonathan Scott
Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl
Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson
This Woman's Work : Essays on Music
Will York
Who Cares Anyway Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age
Kid Congo Powers
Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir
Adelle Stripe
Ten Thousand Apologies : Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure
Tony King
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of RockMusic
Dan Charnas
Dilla Time - The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
dee peyok
Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia
Ian F. Svenonius
AGAINST THE WRITTEN WORD - Toward a Universal Illiteracy
Bruce Adams
You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
VIVIEN GOLDMAN
Revenge of the She-Punks
Dafydd Rees
Beatles: 1963
Dylan Thomas and Cerys Matthews (Illustrated By Kate Evans)
Cerys Matthews' Under Milk Wood : An Illustrated Retelling
tom odell
Best day of my life (songbook)
Jon Savage & Stuart Baker
PUNK 45: The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80
MARGO PRICE
Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir
Tom Doyle
Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
Gavin Butt
No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk
Martin Celmins
Peter Green: The Biography
James Brown
Animal House
WARREN ELLIS
Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found (paperback edition)
david keenan (author)
Industry of Magic and Light (prequel to this is memorial device)
Josephine Jay
Whatever Next? : On Adult Adoptee Identities
Martyn Ware
Electronically Yours Vol. I: My Autobiography