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A Beginner's Guide to Following the Live Music Business

Ticketing, touring economics and festival deals, read with the scepticism the headlines usually leave out.

Ismail Okafor

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The players who filled the studios wrote some of music writing's most revealing books. Here is how to read them well.

Javier Hughes

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Picture books that introduce instruments and rhythm work best when they are built to be spoken, not just seen. A guide to what makes one sing.

Javier Hughes

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A way to rank composer biographies by what they do well, when the shelf cannot hold everything.

Javier Hughes

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Van diaries, motel receipts and soundcheck boredom: the touring memoir tells the part of the music story the highlight reel leaves out.

Deshawn Carter

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A search for the right independent bookstore starts with knowing what a deep music shelf looks like — and where to look for one.

Javier Hughes

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Before a ranking can mean anything, the word at its center has to be examined.

Javier Hughes

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Email, the oldest delivery on the internet, is quietly reshaping how score news, sync deals and industry gossip reach the people who need them.

Amelie Rousseau

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Accuracy, sourcing, and separation of news from promotion: the checks that separate the trade press worth trusting from the rest.

Ismail Okafor

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Rock's most rebooted careers are less a record of events than a plot structure the media keeps reaching for.

Deshawn Carter