Before alternative music, there was “college rock” – a term used in the 80s to describe anything that wasn’t Top 40 and found its genesis in the universities of the time. 

These bands capture the post-punk, new-Wave sound that epitomized this underground movement.

Thank the 80s for MTV,...

In Love is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, reflects on music and love, his marriage and on being a widow. How to tell if you might like this book...Did you ever (publicly or secretly) love pop music? How clearly do you remember the day that Kurt Cobain died? Have you ever made or received a mix tape? Do you sometimes miss the nineties? When the singers ask "What is love?" Rob Sheffield knows the answer. Love is a mix tape.

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After recenty hearing many of Woody Guthrie's decendants perform together, I was reminded how much musical talent and inspiration can be traced back to this one folk singer.

Best known for his ballad "This Land is Your Land", Woody Guthrie wrote hundreds of political, traditional folk and children's songs and inspired countless other artists.

Learn more about his legacy and check out music by Woody Guthrie, his family and friends from your library!

As digital music files become larger and higher definition, some folk are getting creative using old school technology to make music. Check this out!

About ten years ago, I first heard Tom Zé's Com Defeito de Fabricação (1998) and subsequently discovered the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s. I had heard and enjoyed bossa nova and other Brazilian-inspired jazz in my earlier college years, but the psychedelic tinges of Tropicália artists...