(PHOTOS: Daniel Coston) Excerpt from RYAN ADAMS: LOSERING, A STORY OF WHISKEYTOWN by David Menconi, Copyright © 2012. By permission of the University of Texas Press. Purchase the book here and check out the author’s book blog. ***** In the fall of 1994, shortly before his twentieth birthday, Ryan Adams had settled into his latest [...]

The excellent new book Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock ‘n’ Roll examines the heartland rocker’s iconic discography in rich detail, while providing interesting biographical details along the way. In this exclusive excerpt (featuring two passages from chapter 9), author Marc Dolan writes about how the birth of Springsteen’s first child would inspire his [...]

The following is an excerpt from Jay Frank’s  Hack Your Hit: Free and Cheap Marketing Tips For Musicians, available January 31. Frank is also the author of Futurehit.DNA, and the Owner and CEO of DigSin, a music company which provides its subscribers with free music. Before creating DigSin, Frank served as the Senior Vice President of [...]

The late, revered rock critic Paul Nelson got to know many of his subjects intimately. Whether it was Leonard Cohen or Warren Zevon, Nelson’s aesthetic tastes and insistence on integrity endeared him to many of the artists he wrote about. Says Bruce Springsteen: “He is somebody who played a very essential part in that creative [...]