Fox, Anna and O'Brien, Lucy (2018) Country Girl: rural feminism in the performance of Alison Goldfrapp. In: 40 Years of Mute Records: through Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, New Order and more. Bloomsbury. (In Press) Item availability restricted.

O'Brien, Lucy (2018) Madonna: like an icon. Transworld.

O'Brien, Lucy (2017) Putting practice into theory: teaching undergraduate theory in music journalism. In: Popular Music Journalism. Routledge, London. (In Press) Item availability restricted.

O'Brien, Lucy (2016) I'm with the band: redefining young feminism. In: Voicing girlhood in popular music: performance, authority, authenticity. Routledge Studies in Popular Music . Routledge. ISBN 9781138916494 Item availability restricted.

O'Brien, Lucy (2016) Voicing girlhood in popular music. In: EMP Pop Conference, 14-17 April 2016, EMP Museum, Seattle, USA.

O'Brien, Lucy (2016) Finding Dusty: Pet Shop Boys and the disco divas. In: Pet Shop Boys Symposium, 24-25 March 2016, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. (Unpublished)

O'Brien, Lucy (2015) PJ Harvey records a new album in public. Frieze (170). pp. 29-30.

O'Brien, Lucy (2014) Not a piece of meat: Lady Gaga and that dress. Has radical feminism survived the journey? In: Lady Gaga and popular music: performing gender, fashion, and culture. Routledge, New York, pp. 27-43. ISBN 9780415824521 Item availability restricted.

O'Brien, Lucy (2013) She bop : the definitive history of women in popular music. Jawbone Press, London, UK. ISBN 9781908279279

O'Brien, Lucy (2012) Madonna: like a crone. In: 'Rock on': women, ageing and popular music. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 19-33. ISBN 9781409428411

O'Brien, Lucy (2011) Can I have a taste of your ice cream? Punk & Post Punk, 1 (1). pp. 27-40. ISSN 2044-1983