All the Years Combine is perhaps the first truly great book chronicling The Grateful Dead through the band’s live shows.

In Goth: A History, Cure co-founder Lol Tolhurst presents a personalized history of the genre that his band was so instrumental in creating.

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) is a great work of self-revelation and at least a bit of reflection on the harder times Stone has seen since his heyday.

Walter Everett’s Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music takes a studied look at how sex and gender have been dealt with in music throughout the ages.

In the 117th volume of Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 pocket-sized album examinations, writer Ben Apatoff takes on Body Count’s infamous 1992 debut.

Will Sergeant’s new book “Echoes” documents the making and subsequent touring of Echo and the Bunnymen’s first two albums.

All-Night Pharmacy follows the story of a young woman who is entangled in a life of drugs, partying, and risky pursuits with her older sister, until a violent event changes the course of her life.

Jonathan Scott’s Into the Groove tells the story of the vinyl record, from humans’ first inclination to try to record sound up to the resurgence of the LP in the 2000s.

Scott Blackwood’s The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, subtitled A Great Migration Story 1917-1932, chronicles the history of Paramount Records, the first major record company to explode in the United States, focusing on largely blues, jazz, and folk music.