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It recently came to our attention that two musicians with autobiographies coming out this year are huge Liverpool fans. One is Jim Sonefeld, best k...

'God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth' by David Leaf is published in the U.K. on the 30th June. Ahead ...

A six-part TV drama about the UK's two-tone music scene has been commissioned by the BBC from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight! The show will t...

As many David Bowie fans will be aware, 16 June 2022 marks 50 years since the release of his defining glam masterpiece The Rise and Fall of Ziggy S...

Pete Frame's Rock Family Tree series is one of the earliest titles published by Omnibus Press and they enjoy an outstanding longevity. On Saturday ...

We’re all still reeling at Omnibus from the news that Jordan died earlier this week. She was always so full of life and enthusiasm, that it hardly ...

Omnibus Press is delighted that The Velvet Mafia by Darryl W. Bullock has won the prestigious Penderyn Music Book Prize! The Velvet Mafia tells the...

A few weeks ago, NME turned 70. For seven decades, it has been an important presence in music journalism. Like many others, I grew up with it as a ...

It is interesting to wonder whether famous musicians and rock stars read music biographies. We recently heard author Joel McIver tell a story which...

Everyone has their own relationship to music, with milestones and memories. There is the first record you buy, the first gig you attend...  As publ...

Over the winter holidays, I took the opportunity to revisit Good Winter, Mark Beaumont's excellent 2013 book about Bon Iver, one of my favourite ar...

The great Freddie Mercury died of AIDS on this day in 1991, at the young age of forty-five. A dazzling showman and enormously talented songwriter a...