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“The only Lou Reed bio you need to read.” —The Washington PostA Rolling Stone best music book of 2023 | One of Pitchfork’s ten best music books of 2023 | A Variety best music book of the year | A Kirkus Reviews best nonfiction book of 2023“There have been many biographies of Lou Reed, but Will Herme... Read More about Lou Reed: The King of New York

A vivid, dramatic account of how half a dozen kinds of modern music--punk rock, art rock, disco, salsa, rap, minimalist classical--emerged in new forms and cross-pollinated all at once in the middle seventies in NYC. Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown compos... Read More about Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

“The only Lou Reed bio you need to read.” —The Washington PostA Rolling Stone best music book of 2023 | One of Pitchfork’s ten best music books of 2023 | A Variety best music book of the year | A Kirkus Reviews best nonfiction book of 2023“There have been many biographies of Lou Reed, but Will Herme... Read More about Lou Reed: The King of New York

Punk rock and hip-hop, disco and salsa, the loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists--in the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented, all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired, and borro... Read More about Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

Punk rock and hip-hop, disco and salsa, the loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists--in the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented, all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired, and borro... Read More about Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

Punk rock and hip-hop, disco and salsa, the loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists--in the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented, all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired, and borro... Read More about Love Goes to Buildings on Fire Lib/E: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever