Barney Hoskyns’ Led Zeppelin Top 30

Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin, by Barney Hoskyns is out this month via Faber. To accompany its release, Barney has compiled a list of his own Zep favourites, which will, we’re sure, create some healthy debate…

Here Comes Everybody

James Fearnley is a founding member of The Pogues. Thirty years on, with the band now part of music folklore and still touring, we have Here Comes Everybody, a warts-and-all, riotous history. But how would it go down with the band?

Richard King on How Soon is Now?

Richard King’s How Soon Is Now? is a landmark survey of the record labels that make up the backbone of the independent music industry and the hugely inspirational, eccentric, impulsive and visionary figures who created them.

Pop Culture’s Addiction to its Own Past

Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is… its past?

An extract from Simon Reynolds’ Retromania, out this month in paperback via Faber.

One Very Funny Group of People, by Mark Yarn

One of the enduring myths of the 1990s is that grunge musicians were a bunch of miserable bastards…

Win a Faber music book bundle! [closed]

The generous folks at Faber have given three musically-inclined Bookhugger readers the chance to win three shiny and, er, banging, titles!

Nicky Wire on Lipstick Traces

A cult classic, Greil Marcus’s history of punk is this month published in a new edition with a Foreword from Nicky Wire, who explains why the book was a pivotal text for him and his Manic Street Preachers bandmates …

Nick Kent on Apathy for the Devil

Legendary NME rock journalist Nick Kent discusses his memoir of the 70s, Apathy for the Devil, which features his encounters with the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Chrissy Hynde, David Bowie and the Sex Pistols.

Introducing Loops

What is Loops? Launched last year, Loops is the collaboration between Faber and Domino Records – two independents who have combined forces with the aim of bringing together the best in music and writing, providing an outlet for longer-form music journalism and an alternative to the dwindling offerings found elsewhere in print form.