Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams By Michael Allred, Steve Horton and Laura Allred

BOOK REVIEW: BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams By Michael Allred, Steve Horton and Laura Allred

The legacy of David Bowie’s death has been honoured with countless books, being chosen as the first solo artist to…

4 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: The Golden Sheep (part two) By Kaori Ozaki

In part one of “The Golden Sheep” we were introduced to Tsugu, a girl who loves her electric guitar so…

4 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk Rock and Mental Health By Reid Chancellor

Musician, hard-core and metal enthusiast Reid Chancellor initially conceived Hardcore Anxiety as a book about the venues and artists that…

4 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: Mozart in Paris by Frantz Duchazeua

Mozart was not Parisian, let alone French; he was German. Mozart’s time in Paris was brief (lasting just over six…

4 years ago

GAME REVIEW: Music Night Board Game

XS Noize has shown that there is so much more to music than live music and physical music releases. We…

4 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: The Song of the Machine By David Blot and Mathias Cousin

The history and development of The Song of the Machine is almost as fascinating as the book itself. Mathias Cousin…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: The Golden Sheep (part one) By Kaori Ozaki

The manga graphic novel is nothing new, it originated in Japan many decades ago. Unfortunately few manga graphic novels (especially…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: Heavy Vinyl: RIOT ON THE RADIO By Usdin, Vakueva, Flores and Nalty

Whether one is a fan of Charli XCX and Troye Sivan’s hit “1999” earlier this year or not; it inevitably…

5 years ago

REVIEW: David Bowie – Trump Card Game

Whilst digital and streaming consumption of music itself is increasingly outmanoeuvring physical music sales; XS Noize has shown that the…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: Theft! A History of Music By James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins & Keith Aoki

Whilst listening to music and discovering new artists and genres of music, along with the antics and personal lives of…

5 years ago

Moonhead and the Music Machine By Andrew Rae

Everyone knows or has one; a scatterbrain who would literally lose their head if it weren’t screwed on to their…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: Biographic Hendrix By Liz Flavell

Ammonite Press has released a biographic series of books telling the stories of famous musicians using infographics. Infographics use icons…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: 50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World By Will Larnach-Jones

50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World takes fifty icons across one hundred years to demonstrate how those from…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: John Lennon and Jean Jullien – Imagine

The 1971 hit “Imagine” is probably the most globally recognised solo hit by John Lennon following his career with The…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: Basquiat By Julian Voloj and Søren Mosdal

It is well known that Jean-Michel Basquiat aka SAMO was a renowned neo-expressionist artist who gifted the world with numerous…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: The League of Extraordinary Gentleman Century: 1969 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill

Alan Moore’s Watchmen is recognized in Time's List of the 100 Best Novels in the English language published since 1923.…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: How to Disappear Completely by Si Smith

Can you guess the band who made the song How to Disappear Completely? If you know, do you know the…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: Frank Turner – ‘Try This At Home’

'Try This At Home' is the second memoir in Frank Turner's literary adventure, preceded by 2015's 'The Road Beneath My…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: ELVIS – Philippe Chanoinat and Fabrice Le Hénaff

Forty-two years ago this year, “The King”, Elvis Presley died at just forty-two years old. Whilst his life was exceptionally…

5 years ago

BOOK REVIEW: Swan Song By the Cloudscape Comics Society

At XS Noize we have taken you on musical journeys one didn’t think was possible through books, particularly graphic novels.…

5 years ago