A Mary Chain newbie and an expert discuss the band’s new biography.
Randal Doane explores The Clash’s story as nobody else has before.
The Mountain Goats frontman turns his celebrated pen to fiction — and the results are stunning.
The Allman Brothers story, straight from the band.
Patti Smith before she became the “Godmother of Punk.”
The Book Club crams into a touring van with J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph.
This month’s Book Club turns the page on one of the first intellectual studies of hip-hop.
A lifetime of loving music expressed in 31 songs
Our new book club kicks it old-school.
Welcome to the third installment of Aux.Out. Book Club, where a group of us tackle a new or renowned book of the music canon and lay down some of our thoughts. Last time we slogged through the 2012 R. Kelly diary/autobiography/memoir/Yearbook Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me. Today, a “biopic” by the author Touré on the music industry’s most enigmatic, paradoxical, and funkiest people: I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon. Please read along with us in the future (our next book is at the bottom).
Welcome to the second installment of Aux.Out. Book Club, where a group of us tackle a new or renowned book of the music canon and lay down some of our thoughts. For our first book, we chose Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life, and now we arrive at the 2012 R. Kelly diary/autobiography/memoir/Yearbook Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me Please read along with us in the future (our next book is at the bottom).
Welcome to the first installment of Aux.Out. Book Club, where a group of us tackle a new or renowned book of the music canon and lay out some of our thoughts. Please join us in the future (our next book is at the bottom). Our clutch of readers are:
