Marc Masters 🌵 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Write @Bandcamp @TheWireMagazine @Pitchfork / Co-host @SpindlePodcast / Host The Music Book Podcast / New book "High Bias" soon @UNC_Press / Nats fan / He/him

Marquee Moon
Bryan Waterman
.@_waterman's 33.3 book on "Marquee Moon" is easily one of the best in the series, very thorough and full of great info, go get it if you haven't read it yet. #RIPTom https://t.co/eZF8nNKTJG
Paperback, 2011
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yoko Ono: An Artful Life
Donald Brackett
Unexpected passage in Donald Brackett’s Yoko Ono bio. https://t.co/l3RAZe103e
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Song for Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
John Lingan
Episode 2 of the Music Book Podcast is up today - an interview with @johnlingan about his great book "A Song for Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival." Check it out here or on Apple, Spotify, and Google. Thanks! https://t.co/LJNMJfgdY6
Hardcover, 2022
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else
Jon Savage
One of the most brutally real paragraphs in any book ever (from Jon Savage’s Joy Division oral history) https://t.co/RIu7Uz8Zax
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything in Between
Michael Tau
new edition of the Music Book Podcast: a conversation with Michael Tau on his excellent @feralhouse book "Extreme Music: From Silence to Noise and Everything in Between." Lots of cool info on how Michael put together this awesome book! https://t.co/EPnMouonhE
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
L.A. Late @ Night: 5 Noir & Mystery Tales From the Dark Streets of Los Angeles
Paul D. Marks
This is a great short about how the bumper images on Late Night were created, and now I really want this book! Check out this bumper in which a Gang of Four/Bush Tetras/Bad Brains show flyer shows up: https://twitter.com/thedonz5/status/1488777186752581633 https://t.co/1jiDFfQEX7
Paperback, 2014
$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
Excellent episode of @seanmcarroll's mindscape podcast w/randall munroe of xkcd on his "what if" books. I met randall briefly at a wedding about a decade ago - I had never heard of xkcd. found out later how well known he is. cool guy! https://t.co/oLathhyaMl
Hardcover, 2014
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spiderland
Scott Tennent
Just took a late night walk to the entirety of "Spiderland", what a fucking album. My experience made bigger by having read @sctttnnnt's 33.3 book (my fave in the series) and seen that excellent doc on them. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/slints-spiderland-9781441170262/
Paperback, 2010
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dancing to the Drum Machine: How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World
Dan Leroy
New on the Music Book Podcast: I talk to @danleroy about "Dancing to the Drum Machine," his great history of the ways drum machines helped musicians invent new sounds, from Raymond Scott to RUN-DMC, Suzanne Ciani to Prince, Throbbing Gristle to ZZ Top. https://t.co/LBw5g8gE4R
Hardcover, 2022
$95.00$70.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live
Vashti Bunyan
ICYMI last week, I talked to Vashti Bunyan about her great memoir "Wayward: Just Another Life to Live" for my Music Book Podcast. She's incredible. https://t.co/mFDDeXTStv
Hardcover, 2023
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book