This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl – A Biography by Paul Brannigan

On January 21, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, It's all about music..., Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

This Is a Call, the first in-depth, definitive biography of Dave Grohl, tells the epic story of a singular career that includes Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, and Them Crooked Vultures.

Irish Songbook: Inishbofin Ceili Band – The Dear Little Isle

On December 29, 2011, in Articles, Irish Songbook, It's all about music..., Wilfried F. Voss, by Wilfried F. Voss

Usually known in Ireland as The Dear little Isle or There’s A Dear Little Isle, it is commonly referred to as My Own Dear Native Land. Presumably written abroad by an exile in the early to mid 20th Century, is now accepted as traditional.

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes

On December 14, 2011, in Book Reviews, Entertainment, History, It's all about music..., Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented—all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another.

Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny by Nile Rodgers

On December 3, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, It's all about music..., Music, Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Today’s pop music—genre-crossing, gender-bending, racially mixed, visually stylish, and dominated by dance music with global appeal—is the world that Nile Rodgers created.

The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus

On November 16, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, It's all about music..., Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

A fan from the moment the Doors’ first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over.

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music by Judy Collins

On November 14, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, It's all about music..., Music, Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about her alcoholism, her lasting love affair with Stephen Stills, her friendships with Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Fariña, David Crosby, and Leonard Cohen and, above all, the music that helped define a decade and a generation’s sound track.

Pandora Favorites: The Music Of Rosie Thomas

On November 13, 2011, in It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Wilfried F. Voss

Rosie Thomas is an American singer-songwriter, originally from Michigan. It was through mutual friends that she met Trey Many and began playing shows with Velour 100. They recorded one EP together and played a few short tours, where she met Damien Jurado and Pedro the Lion. She then moved to Seattle to briefly attend Cornish College before deciding to focus on a solo recording career.

Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism by Chuck Eddy

On November 13, 2011, in Book Reviews, Entertainment, It's all about music..., Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Rock and Roll Always Forgets features the best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by this singular critic. Essential reading for music scholars and fans, it may well be the definitive time-capsule comment on pop music at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Pandora Favorites: The Music Of Plumb

On November 11, 2011, in It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Wilfried F. Voss

Tiffany Arbuckle Lee (born March 9, 1975, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter who uses the stage name Plumb. She has performed several different genres of music, including alternative rock and Christian alternative rock and a few of her remixes have appeared on dance charts.

Pandora Favorites: The Music Of Evanescence

On November 11, 2011, in It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Wilfried F. Voss

Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording private albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003.