If you're like me, not only do you like to listen to music, you like to read about it as well. Get lost in this book and these amazing essays.

<img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418jNDusfcL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" alt="" align="left" />Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues, it is essential reading for anyone who loves great music and accomplished writing. Scribes of every imaginable sort—novelists, poets, journalists, musicians— are gathered to create a multi-voiced snapshot of the year in music writing that, like the music it illuminates, is every bit as thrilling as it is riveting.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/12/best_music_writing_2011_honorable_mention_links.php

<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2010/09/the_wrestler_and_the_cornflake_girl.html">Mick Foley</a>.

<a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-08/music/juggalo-gathering-insane-clown-posse/">This Juggalo essay is amazing</a>