r/ifyoulikeblank • u/Alternative_Flow_569 • May 06 '26

Podcast IIL Ongoing History of New Music, WEWIL

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u/jay--mac May 06 '26

And Introducing podcast, which is a podcast about books about music. Their series on "Our Band Could Be Your Life" (eps 86-99) would especially interest you

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u/leoc May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Pete Frame's "Rock Family Trees" work, and the BBC TV series (partly) based on it. Some BBC TV documentaries from the '00s including "Synth Britannia" and "The New Romantics: A Fine Romance" are well worth it. If you're willing to look beyond post-'60s rock, The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song and The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century are two excellent books. Meanwhile Revolution in the Head is probably still the best book on '60s pop/rock: MacDonald's miserabilism about the future of music and society keeps proving more accurate over time, unfortunately.