All Music Guide to Rock: The Best CDs, Albums and Tapes: Rock, Pop, Soul, Randb and Rap

Rating more than 15,000 records by 2500 performers, the All Music Guide to Rock: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes-Rock, Pop, Soul, R&B and Rap, edited by All Music Guide (AMG) series creator Michael Erlewine, along with Vladimir Bogdanov and Chris Woodstra, is the latest addition to the AMG series. Featuring brief reviews by noted music critics, listings that include bootlegs, imports and out-of-print albums, as well as ``Music Maps'' charting recent subgenres in popular music, this guide presents a broad spectrum of information on a wide array of popular music. (Miller Freeman, $24.95 ISBN 0-87930-376-X)