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War For The Oaks

A fantasy novel by Emma Bull and one of the pioneering works of Urban Fantasy, War for the Oaks is the story of Eddi McCandry, a Minneapolis rock singer who's just been kicked out of her band and breaking up with her boyfriend. There's also the matter of The Fair Folk moving in — quite literally — with her, and an impending war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts into which she's just been drafted.

Contains examples of:

A Good Name for a Rock Band: Eddi & the Elves.
The Baroness: the Queen of Unseelie Court.
Black Best Friend (and a Muggle Best Friend): Carla.
Bodyguard Crush: Eddi and phouka.
Dancing Is Serious Business.
Duet Bonding: Eddi and Willy.
Elemental Barrier: around the battle area.
Elvish Presley.
The Fair Folk: Two courts: the Seelie and Unseelie courts, roughly corresponding to good and evil.
Fairy Companion: phouka and Meg to Eddi.
Fairy Sexy: many examples.
Gender Blender Name: An offbeat one, too.
Ice Queen: two of them.
Interspecies Romance.
In The Style Of: Eddi and her band like to try it as a kind of exercise.
Invisible to Normals.
Killed Off for Real: Willy Silver.
Like Reality Unless Noted.
Loveable Rogue: Most of the (non-evil) faeries, but the Phouka in particular.
Magic Music: True to folklore, the music of the faeries is impossible to resist, as audiences soon find.
The Mole: Hedge.
Mundane Utility: the magic of phouka and Meg.
Myspeld Rökband: InKline Plain.
Nature Spirit: glaistig and many other fairies.
Never Trust A Title: there are no strategically relevant oaks in the novel.
Not Quite Saved Enough: Poor, poor Willy.
The Power of Friendship: the special bond between Eddi and phouka, created by Eddi's answer to the Queen, gives her a special power over fairies' fate.
The Power of Rock: Present throughout the novel including the final battle.
Twin Cities: The setting of the book; all the places mentioned in the novel are real.
Urban Fantasy: One of the Trope Codifiers.
Your Mind Makes It Real: that is why phouka warns Eddi against doubt.