Author Pat Thomas selects and annotates spreads from his new book built from the archive of American poet and writer Allen Ginsberg

This chapter from the book about the Swedish psych rock band provides an oral history of the realisation of Gärdesfesten – the free music festival that took place in Stockholm, 1970

Editor-compiler Richard Johnson shares an excerpt from his book-length Q+A with musician, Alternative TV founder and Sniffin' Glue editor Mark Perry. Chapter eight recalls 1979, when Perry joined musicians Nag and Bendle in the British art punk band The Door And The Window.

Rachel's exploration into Jerry Dammers's 2 Tone label explains how punk reggae evolved to become the “soundtrack of a generation”

Wolke Verlag share an excerpt from the new English language edition of Guillaume Belhomme’s Eric Dolphy biography, originally published by Lenka Lente. In this chapter Belhomme details how an article entitled “John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics” appeared in an issue of DownBeat magazine in 1962.

HoZac Books compiles the original six issues of Richard Langston's obscure fanzine Garage into book form with new interviews and essays from New Zealand underground musicians, including this contribution by The Clean's David Kilgour

A new anthology collects thoughts and experiences from Black music writers young and old. In this extract editor Willard Jenkins introduces Farah Jasmine Griffin, who goes on to detail her journey towards writing an unusual volume on Billie Holiday

Ecstatic Peace Library shares a chapter from Ignacio Julià's new compendium on the US art-rock group, in which Lou Reed discusses his 2003 album The Raven

Jen B Larson compiles interviews with women who made up local regional US punk scenes over forty years ago. Here Feral House press shares chapters on Chicago acts Kate Fagan and Bitch.

Primary Information shares a segment from this new analysis of techno as Black-led folk music for an industrial society

As part of her memoir of queer pre-and post-punk music and art life in London, Dorothy Max Prior recalls her involvement in the short-lived new wave outfit Rema-Rema

A new illustrated account of the life and work of Crass member and resident visual artist Gee Vaucher charts her influence through generations

A 740 page book reflecting on the life and work of saxophonist Sonny Rollins charts his musical evolution, including his little documented engagement with the avant garde

Equinox Publishing share a segment from a new translation of an extended interview between Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko and broadcaster Rafał Księżyk

In a new book written before his death in 2021, bassist Ubadah McConner recounts the evolution and history of his home based educational, cultural and music centre in Pontiac, Michigan, which held all night Friday sessions of music and conversation for over 30 years

In an extract from a new compendium about West Berlin’s M bands, Beate Bartel, Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster discuss the formation of Mania D

JR Moores shares his chapter describing the jinxes that followed the “heaviest and least celebrated grunge band” TAD

A new biography maps the life of the Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer through stories, poems, music charts, photos and illustrations

A new book from Strange Attractor includes the screenplay for “a horror film that never was” plus transcripts of its authors Mark E Smith and Graham Duff in conversation. In this extract the pair discuss British director Lindsay Anderson and German group Can

Their new book aims to broaden and destabilise the common perception of the meaning of sound arts