What We’re Reading: Music Books

Take a break from the headphones to dive into pages about Philip Glass and vinyl heads

After you’ve listened to album after album on Spotify, recovered from a weeknight concert, bombasted by music at the local bar, it’s sometimes nice to let the ears rest. There’s still another way to get your music fix, however—in the form of bound pages. And books, lest you forget, can be far more insightful and impactful than the latest stream of Tweets from your favorite …

Foals: What Went Down

Since their global debut in 2008, English band Foals has released raucous, nuanced and thoughtful music worth moving one’s body to. Today, 28 August 2015, they’ve dropped their fourth full-length album, What Went Down, featuring 10 blistering tracks that unfold with power and potency. Title track “What Went Down” conveys the essence of what the album offers: angular, emotive force.

Risky Business: The Teenage Brain

“Nothing—whether it’s being with your friends, having sex, licking an ice cream cone, zipping along in a convertible on a warm summer evening, hearing your favorite music—will ever feel as good as it did when you were a teenager,” says Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University. From weak frontal lobes to enlarged nucleus accumbens and extra more dopamine receptors, adolescents’ brains are …