The bestselling music reference book for music lovers, from those who know best: The editors of Rolling Stone.
For the first time since 1992, Rolling Stone's definitive classic returns to the scene, completely updated and revised to include the past decade's hottest trends in popular music, as well as today's newest artists and sounds.
When it comes to sorting out the truly great from the merely mediocre, the classic from the fleeting, 'The New Rolling Stone Album Guide' provides music buffs and amateurs alike with authoritative guidance from a well-respected voice in the field. Filled with insightful analyses and critical judgment , this first-rate consumer reference not only reviews the most influential albums of all time, it also features biographical overviews of key artists' careers, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the personalities behind the music and their musical achievements.
Without compromising the indispensable information in the original volume, this fourth edition contains an impressive seventy percent of new material. Readers will find an introduction detailing significant changes in the industry, such as Internet music downloads, fresh updates to existing entries on classic artists, and hundreds of brand new entries on the people and recordings that epitomize the beats of the 1990s and the incipient sounds of the 21st century, including: Beck, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Outkast, Dave Matthews Band, Eminem, Pavement, Radiohead, Coldplay, Evanescence, Wilco, and many more.
Celebrating the diversity of popular music and its constant metamorphoses, with thousands of entries and reviews on every sound from Blues to Techno, 'The New Rolling Stone Album Guide' is the only resource music lovers need to read.
