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

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

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

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 Editor

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 Editor

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 Editor

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 Editor

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.

Musical Blast From The Past: “Take On Me” by A-Ha

On November 10, 2011, in It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Editor

Living in 1980s Germany, and loving contemporary pop music, I saw the release of a great number of songs that have not lost their popularity up to this day. One of these songs is Take On Me by A-Ha, which was also a great hit here in the United States (A-Ha is from Norway).

Musical Blast From The Past: “Eloise” by Barry Ryan

On November 10, 2011, in It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Editor

Growing up as a teenager in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and loving contemporary pop music, I saw the release of a great number of songs that have not lost their appeal up to this day. One of these songs is Eloise by Barry Ryan.

Pandora Favorites: The Music Of “A Fine Frenzy”

On November 10, 2011, in It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Editor

Alison Sudol (born 23 December 1984), known professionally as A Fine Frenzy (formerly Alison Monro, is a US alternative singer and songwriter and pianist. Her debut album, One Cell in the Sea, was released on July 17, 2007, and peaked at number 91 on the Billboard 200 chart.