Rhino's Single Notes ebook series

LINER NOTES FOR THE DIGITAL AGE: Rhino has just launched Single Notes, a new line of short-form ebooks about music and pop culture. A new ebook will be released every week starting at $1.99. To mark the launch, My Life in the Ghost of Planets: The Story of a CBGB Almost-Was, written by Binky Philips of The Planets, who never quite managed to surpass opening for the New York Dolls, is available for a limited time as a free download at the iBookstore and Amazon’s Kindle store. Also published this week were Dark Stars and Anti-Matter: 40 Years of Loving, Leaving and Making Up with the Music of the Grateful Dead by veteran music writer Gene Sculatti, Every Day I Take a Wee: The Beastie Boys and the Untimely Death of Suburban Folklore by Spin senior editor Chris Weingarten, Careless Memories of Strange Behavior: My Notorious Life as a Duran Duran Fan by Yahoo Music managing editor Lyndsey Parker, and We Won’t Settle For Less: Chic at the End of Disco by freelance writer Michaelangelo Matos. Future stories will cover the Ramones’ collaboration with Phil Spector and the making of David Bowie’s Hunky Dory, as well as essays about Van Halen, Fleetwood Mac, Todd Rundgren, Nirvana, Rick James and the Shangri-Las. (6/14a)