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A new DVD documents the "Tommy"-era Who onstage, just as the group's career as a fiery live act was peaking.
Lucas and Spielberg reedit their films if there's money to be made. But increasingly, it's the audience doing the reengineering.
A new book from "Billboard" and England's "Computer Music" magazine provides a step-by-step, illustrated guide to help anyone get started making music on a personal computer.
Roger Craig, the San Francisco 49ers' star running back of the 1980s has written an enjoyable new book about the team's glory days, and the players who made it possible.
Shipping this month is Sonar 4, Cakewalk's latest version of its flagship PC-based recording program. We'll take a look at some of its new features and provide an audio clip of Ed putting Sonar through its paces.
"Melody: How To Write Great Tunes" by British musician-historian-journalist Rikky Rooksby explains why melody has become a dying art in popular music--and how songwriters can fix that.
Coming in late October is the long-awaited DVD release of "No Quarter: Unledded", the 1994 MTV special that reunited Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. Engineer Kevin Shirley explains the difficulties of remixing the project for 5.1 surround sound, and his efforts in helping to create last year's best selling Led Zeppelin DVD.
Well--more or less. (Hint: Don't expect to see Led Zeppelin.)
Ayn Rand and her Objectivist movment had little truck with conservatives, but the two shared a love of classical form in the arts. A book co-written by two art critics takes a favorable but critical look at her opinions on art.
Back in the early days of "Blogcritics", we linked to Weblog-like electronic diary of an album being recorded. The author of that diary, a veteran recording engineer, has since transformed his off-the-cuff online notes into a new hard cover book.
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