In Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars, Mark Ribowsky presents a terrifically detailed and wonderfully engaging portrait of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Michael Stewart Foley’s Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is a must read not only for punks young and old, but for anyone who has ever felt even the slightest revolutionary pang in their soul.

VHS: Video Cover Art contains over 240 full-page, full-color sleeve scans, divided into categories as all-encompassing as those you’d have found in the local rental shop: Action, Comedy, Horror, Kids, Sci-Fi, and Thriller.

In a few weeks, the Grateful Dead will cap a 50-year anniversary with five concerts, split between California and Chicago. In Deal, founding drummer Bill Kreutzmann details the long strange trip that began in 1965.

Finally, Genesis’ tale is told by one of the band’s founders, with anecdotes to spare.

Kim Gordon’s memoir, Girl In A Band, begins with the end of Sonic Youth, and right out of the gate, Gordon is giving fans and readers exactly what they came for.

Peter Bebergal presents a nuanced examination of how the occult influenced rock and roll, from its inception to present day.

Groove is a studied philosophical examination of how and why we respond to music and the groove.

At a time where rock bios have settled into a safe place of delivering shocking moments with mostly filler, Marky Ramone delivers a book that’s as intriguing as it is smile-inducing.