This is a real-world, down in the trenches tutorial on how to produce a record-whether you are a home-studio musician, or lucky enough to work in a big recording studio. The interesting aspect is it's not a how-to book that deals solely with the technology of making music. It is written from my perspective as a musician and band leader, and, as a result, it focuses on the inter-personal, psychological, and collaborative elements of audio production...

In Grippando's Goodbye Girl, Jack Swyteck's latest client is Grammy-winning popstar Imani Nichols, who urges fans to pirate her music because her royalties go mostly to ex-husband Shaky Nichols; the result is blazing litigation and the indictment of both for the long-ago murder of Imani's extramarital lover.

Cate Le Bon's third album was made with the type of clarity that comes with a change in perspective. Its sound is woozily melodic, dreamily confident, and wrapped in a hazy psychedelic gauze.

Volume I covers the period from Neil Young's earliest recordings with the Squires in Winnipeg, 1963, through to his classic 1972 album, Harvest and beyond. It includes rare performances of the legendary Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Neil Young with Crazy Horse.