The year’s most riveting music book came from a surprising source. ­Britney Spears: The Woman in Me ­(Gallery, £25) allows the ­embattled superstar to tell her own story, and it is not a pretty one.

Johnny Cash's Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat. But ...

Every year we start off this column in the same way, with a “so many books, so little time” caveat and noting that it represents just a fraction of the fine music tomes released over the past year.

If you want to know the feeling of constantly failing… well, yes, you can read any number of musicians’ memoirs about their early years, but you can also try to keep up with the vast number of music ...

The winners of the 56th annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards were announced on Oct. 30. Here's the full 2025 winners list.

The Beach Boys will tell their story in their own words in the first-ever official book from the surf-rock legends. In addition to the interviews, the book also features ephemera from the Capitol ...