Carl F Gauze slobbers over the juicy details of a rock star groupie’s Mad Men and LSD days.

Get your crazy font on, with Andy Miller’s collection of wall-ready poster art inspired by indie rock music.

A lively biography of the founders of Punk Rock.

The net result of plowing through a weighty tome like this is a sense of awe at how a bunch of kids created their own culture whole cloth, like the music industry on a Utopian, communal, microcosmic level.

Vintage interviews with the triumvirate of guitar gods.

Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave talks about her life right as she was exploding, in the good ways and the bad, in her memoir Rat Girl.

Nick Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zachary Lipez from Freshkills, and designer Stacy Wakefield create this modest chapbook. How is it? Well, it’s named accurately. James Mann spends 15 minutes so you don’t have to.

Ayun Halliday gathers the punk rock inside scoop on NYC. Read Zinester’s Guide to NYC from the comfort of your friend’s Brooklyn sofa – and don’t forget the hostess gift.

Carl F Gauze is overwhelmed by Rob Roth’s glossy, artsy rock and roll promotion obscurities.

Greg Graffin deposits a lot of three-dollar words into this mix of biography, punk history, and evolutionary biology.

Carl F Gauze thinks cloud sourcing T-shirts may be the next big plan to save the American Economy.

Bruno MacDonald aims for a paper wiki of rock history, showing the connections that casual fans might miss, in this interesting take on the history of rock ‘n’ roll.

Just because zombies eat brains, doesn’t mean they have any themselves.

A coffee table book, detailing SRV’s early career with pictures, reminiscences, posters and original lyrics sheets overwhelms Carl F Gauze but is probably perfect for the obsessive fan.

How does one make a book about Motorhead, hard-drugging and hard-thrashing metal godfathers, boring? Read on…

The history of teeny, tiny labels that launched some really big bands. Before the out-crowd became the in-crowd.

The distance between Eunice Waymon and Nina Simone is explained and explored for Jessica Whittington in this somewhat dry biography.

James Mann feels this guy knows more about Bob Dylan than Robert Zimmerman. Is that a good thing?

A creative genius, cultural icon, guitar hero, all of that and more. Keith Richards’s Life is as compelling as its subject.

Jeff Schweers suggests a greater purpose for Sid Griffin’s supposedly unique look at Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue.