New books about music to read this summer. (via @nytimesbooks )

Hear “Don’t Forget,” a dazzling return to form that is slated to appear on Sky Ferreira’s much-delayed second album, “Masochism,” on the Playlist.

Fanny put out five albums in the ’70s and counted David Bowie and Bonnie Raitt as fans. The filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart, dismayed its story hadn’t been told, took action.

“Harry’s House” is a light, fun, summery pop record, but there is a gaping void at its center, our critic writes.

XXXTentacion was a rapper whose brief life and career were ended in a 2018 shooting. Before that, his emotive music, incendiary persona and criminal notoriety earned him a fan base of America’s most disaffected children — and multiplatinum record sales.

Oliver Sim said he was inspired by musicians like John Grant and Mykki Blanco, who make challenging and nuanced work and are also open about their H.I.V. positive status. “For me, this is the opposite of shame,” he said.

"Pistol" tells Steve Jones’s story. With a touch of showbiz.

The Swedish superstars in Abba — or digital versions of them, at least — performed on Thursday to 3,000 enthusiastic fans with the help of 140 animators, four body doubles and $175 million.

On “Cruel Country,” Wilco ponders a genre and a nation. It's a Critic's Pick.