Genres & Styles - Rock
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Smiths’ Meat Is Murder
$14.95 Add to cartA Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison),
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Pernice, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 082641494X
- Language: English
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Neil Young’s Harvest
$14.95 Add to cartNeil Young’s Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, de
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Inglis, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 127
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414958
- Language: English
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Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA
$14.95 Read moreWhen Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, “one, two, one, two, three, four,” followed by the droning synth chords of “Born in the U.S.A.” Max Weinberg
- Series: 33 1/3 #27
- Author: Himes, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416616
- Language: English
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Rolling Stones’ Some Girls
$14.95 Read moreIt’s October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They’re under siege. Keith Richards’s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band’s future, and t
- Series: 33 1/3 #81
- Author: Patell, Cyrus R. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441192808
- Language: English
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Pretty Hate Machine
$14.95 Add to cartWhat is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band’s 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine.
The alb- Series: 33 1/3 #78
- Author: Carr, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0826427898
- Language: English
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Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock–from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent–and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a gen
- Author: Deville, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1250363381
- Language: English
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Dressed in Black: The Shangri-Las and Their Recorded Legacy
$24.95 Add to cartThe first full-length history of the Shangri-Las, one of the most significant–and most misunderstood–pop groups of the 1960s.
Sisters Mary and Betty Weiss, together with twins Mary Ann and Marguerite
- Author: Mackinney, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1959163078
- Language: English
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No Rem?rse: The Illustrated True Stories of Lemmy Kilmister and Mot?rhead
$34.99 Add to cartNO REMORSE: The Illustrated True Stories of Lemmy Kilmister and Mot?rhead To celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the legendary Mot?rhead, Z2 has gathered some of the greatest living musicians (… [more below]
- Author: Moorcock, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886561340
- Language: English
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The Yardbirds: The Most Blueswailing Futuristic Way-Out Heavy Beat Sound
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of an iconic group, the advent of pop, and the birth of rock music in 1960s Britain.
The Yardbirds were trailblazers in the rapid development of pop music in Britain between 1963 and 1968.- Author: Stanfield, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390777
- Language: English
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Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection
$32.00 Add to cartThe first book to tell the full story of the Grateful Dead’s “Wall of Sound,” an unprecedented and since unparalleled speaker system.
Loud and Clear is the first book to tell the full story of the Gra- Author: Anderson, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1250319676
- Language: English
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Smile: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Brian Wilson
$37.00 Add to cart“Brain Wilson. SMILE: Excellent! The man is my
hero. I love him. I weep when I hear his band, I hear him sing. I love
him.” –Sir Paul McCartneyThe story of the Brian Wilson’s legendary SMiLE album
from- Author: Leaf, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1915841313
- Language: English
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Fleetwood Mac All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track
$60.00 Add to cartFleetwood Mac All the Songs dives deep into the unique and often fraught recording history of the mega-bestselling and hugely influential rock band. Packed with captivating photographs and fascinating
- Series: All the Songs
- Author: Roubin, Olivier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0762486309
- Language: English
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Abbey Road and Never a Dull Moment, the basis for AppleTV’s 1971 documentary, come the stories of how rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, and more have survi… [more below]
- Author: Hepworth, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895150061
- Language: English
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Goth: A History
$18.99 Add to cartFollowing his memoir Cured, a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a misunderstood genre and culture, by co-founder of The Cure, Lol Tolhurst
GOTH is an entertaining and enga- Author: Tolhurst, Lol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 030682843X
- Language: English
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Fountains of Wayne
$18.00 Add to cartFountains of Wayne, the first full-length biography of the beloved band, goes beyond their huge hit “Stacy’s Mom” to explore the group’s entire history and the lasting legacy of the group’s music. Wit
- Author: McQuarrie, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: March 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story: 20th Anniversary Edition
$25.00 Add to cartThe Seattle music scene burst onto the world stage as the 20th century ended.
But most accounts of this phenomenon, from Time magazine to MTV to uncountable “Cobain-sploitation” books, sucked.
Despit
- Author: Humphrey, Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: September 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1929069294
- Language: English
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The Cure – Pictures of You: Foreword by Robert Smith
$45.00 Add to cartA ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022
WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT SMITH
The definitive collection of renowned photographer Tom Sheehan’s images of The Cure – with photographs seen here for the very first ti
- Author: Sheehan, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1802793968
- Language: English
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From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
$30.00 Add to cartWritten by Virginia Grohl, the mother of Dave Grohl–former Nirvana drummer and current frontman for the Foo Fighters–From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of roc… [more below]
- Author: Hanlon Grohl, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 158005644X
- Language: English
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Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix 1942-1970
$19.99 Read moreBefore he became the legendary guitarist, Hendrix navigated a childhood reminiscent of Dickens, evolving into an obscure musician and facing a journey paved with hardships. In this intimate portrait b… [more below]
- Author: DuPont, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1990521274
- Language: English
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Flowers In The Rain: The Untold Story of The Move
$26.99 Add to cartIn the pantheon of rock history – The Move have been overlooked but no longer. How do you describe The Move – one of the greatest British bands to come out the 1960s beat boom? Who incorporated the hi
- Author: McCarthy, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1915246598
- Language: English
