Grammy-winning music producer Ian Brennan, How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts, in conversation with Kevin Army, East Bay punk musician and producer who engineered Green Day's second major label album, Insomniac, on Brennan's new book, Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00 (www.moesbooks.com)