Books like Rocking the classics by Edward Macan

In 1976 David Bowie moved to Berlin, where he overcame personal turmoil to create the seminal albums Low, Heroes and Lodger with collaborators Brian Eno, Tony Visconti and Robert Fripp, shaping rock's electronic era.

In 1986, it was unimaginable that death metal and grindcore would ever impact popular culture. Yet this shockingly fast and barbaric amalgam of hardcore punk and heavy metal would define the musical threshold of extremity for years to come. Initially circulated through an underground tape-trading network by scraggly, angry young boys, death metal and grindcore spread faster than a plague of undead zombies as bands rose from every corner of the globe. By 1992, the genre's first legitimate label, Earache Records, had sold well over a million death metal and grindcore albums in the United States alone. Choosing Death, featuring an introduction by John Peel, conquers the lofty task of telling the two-decade-long history of this underground art form through the eyes and ringing ears of the artists, producers, and label owners–past and present–who propelled the movements.

Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.

Ian Glasper chronicles the early 1980s UK anarcho‑punk movement, detailing bands like Crass, Poison Girls, Amebix, Chumbawamba, Flux of Pink Indians and Zounds through exclusive interviews and rare photographs.

Novelists and musicians alike, contribute their efforts to this literary collection of essays featuring the subject of progressive rock.

Black‑comedic memoir of 1990s Britpop from the perspective of Luke Haines, frontman of The Auteurs, tracing his rise, setbacks, and the shifting landscape of British rock.