I just got the epub for The Oxford History of Western Music, Volumes 1-5.
The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the context of each stylistic period--key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific events--influenced and directed compositional choices.

It's on libgen.

I forget the name of the book but grandmaster flash's biography was good.

Lou Reed: A Life by Decurtis
Kinda helps explain why he acted the way he did, I've still got to finish it but good read

Each questlove release is fire

you like Drone music?

i have listened to tim hecker before?

i also heard the two sunn 0))) which came last came out

Most of this material is centered around deep listening and electronic/experimental music.

listen to this: open.spotify.com/album/2qLeLtVxS5N9A9B0qd1BC5

then read the book: lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7465

currently reading this book myself and it's so good, highly rec. Elaine is my goat when it comes to Drone.

also look up Pierre Schaeffer's Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across Disciplines & In Search of a Concrete Music

goodreads.com/book/show/8868451-listening-through-the-noise

This one does explain experimental electronic as a whole and with that musique concrete

also talks about Eliane Radigue

intersting i will forsure check them out

amazon.com/Blink-182-Tales-Beneath-Your-Mom/dp/0743422074

you already know this s*** gonna be fire from the title

I Want My MTV.

Has anyone read Dilla Time? Thinking about picking it up (even though I haven’t listened to much Dilla (I know )) to understand drums some more

Recently read the Mozart biography Reign of Love earlier this year.

Highly recommend it.

The World of duke Ellington by Stanley dance

Bob Spitz Led Zeppelin and Beatles books are great and J Dilla (dilla time) probably the best biography I’ve read

It’s amazing but really more biography than drum/rhythm stuff. Still worth a read and there’s a listening guide included (the playlist is on YouTube) so you could listen to some stuff in the process and maybe get a new perspective on drums