(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004, Paperback, Revised)

Key Details
Language:	English
Publisher:	Fireside
Format:	Paperback
ISBN-10:	0743201698
ISBN-13:	9780743201698

Additional Details
Edition Number:	4
Edition Description:	Revised; Updated

Size
Length:	927 pages
Height:	9 in
Width:	7.3 in
Thickness:	2 in
Weight:	54.4 oz

Publisher's Note
For the first time since 1992, Rolling Stone's definitive classic returns to the scene, completely updated and revised to include the past decade's artists and sounds. When it comes to sorting the truly great from the merely mediocre, the enduring from the fleeting, The New Rolling Stone Album Guide provides music buffs and amateurs alike with authoritative guidance from the best voices in the field. Filled with insightful commentary, it not only reviews the most influential albums of all time, but also features biographical overviews of key artists' careers, giving readers a look at the personalities behind the music.

This fourth edition contains an impressive -- 70 percent -- amount of new material. Readers will find fresh updates to entries on established artists, hundreds of brand-new entries on the people and recordings that epitomize the '90s and the sounds of the 21st century -- from Beck to OutKast to the White Stripes and beyond -- along with a new introduction detailing changes in the music industry.

Celebrating the diversity of popular music and its constant metamorphoses, with thousands of entries and reviews on every sound from blues to techno, The New Rolling Stone Album Guide is the only resource music lovers need to read.

Updated to include seventy percent new material, a reference to the past decade's top trends, performers, and sounds reviews the music industry's most influential albums, provides biographical overviews of key artists, and considers how technology and the Internet have impacted the industry.