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Band’s Music from Big Pink
$14.95 Read more“Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man’s cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy….Thi
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2005
- ISBN10: 082641771X
- Language: English
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Tom Petty’s Southern Accents
$14.95 Read moreBy 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like “The Waiting” and “Ref
- Series: 33 1/3 #139
- Author: Washburn, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501333445
- Language: English
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Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seeme
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Foley, Michael Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1623567300
- Language: English
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
$14.95 Read moreChristopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing –
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weingarten, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429130
- Language: English
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Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
$14.95 Read moreShelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding’s Live in Europe and James Brown’s Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums e
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Fleming, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355546
- Language: English
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American Recordings
$14.95 Read moreWhen Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin’s record label in 1993, he was already in the wax museum of memory, a fondly regarded but totally marginalized legend, unheard on the radio and unseen on the char
- Series: 33 1/3 #80
- Author: Tost, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2011
- ISBN10: 1441174613
- Language: English
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Cat Power’s Moon Pix
$14.95 Read more“Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997. Like all legends, the aura surrounding them is an impression, a sen… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Kozloskie, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1501377930
- Language: English
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Big Star’s Radio City
$14.95 Add to cartReleased when ELP and Elton John were plodding from one packed stadium to the next, Radio City was a radical album influenced by records that were already deemed oldies and yet sounding like a lean el… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #65
- Author: Eaton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826428983
- Language: English
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Guided by Voices’ Bee Thousand
$14.95 Add to cartMarc Woodworth’s book covers the album’s long and unorthodox period of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. It includes interviews with members of the band, manager Pete Jamison, web-master an
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Woodworth, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417485
- Language: English
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David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs
$14.95 Add to cartAfter his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits “Fame” and “Golden Years” David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic “Hunger City” popula
- Series: 33 1/3 #143
- Author: Hendler, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1501336584
- Language: English
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Pearl Jam’s vs.
$14.95 Add to cartVs. is the sound of a band on fire. The same confluence of talent, passion, timing, and fate that made “grunge” the world’s soundtrack also lit a short fuse beneath Pearl Jam. The band combusted betwe
- Series: 33 1/3 #154
- Author: Brownlee, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355309
- Language: English
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Wowee Zowee
$14.95 Add to cartPavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York. They took a step back and assessed the material. It was a wild scene. They had fully fleshe
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Charles, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429572
- Language: English
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LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver
$14.95 Add to cartWhen LCD Soundsystem broke up in 2011, they left behind a small but remarkable catalog of music. On top of the genius singles and a longform composition for Nike, there was a trilogy of full-length al
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Leas, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1501325612
- Language: English
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Court and Spark
$14.95 Read moreCourt and Spark is Joni Mitchell’s most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertso
- Series: 33 1/3 #40
- Author: Nelson, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0826417736
- Language: English
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Reign in Blood
$14.95 Add to cartIssued on America’s premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer’s controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal, a seamless 29-minute procession
- Series: 33 1/3 #57
- Author: Ferris, D. X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0826429092
- Language: English
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Janet Jackson’s the Velvet Rope
$14.95 Add to cartThe question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson’s career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just
- Series: 33 1/3 #148
- Author: Dozier, Ayanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1501355023
- Language: English
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Songs in the Key of Life
$14.95 Add to cartLike all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern – life – doesn’t exactly allow for rigid focus, it’s still a fiercely inspired collection of songs a
- Series: 33 1/3 #42
- Author: Lundy, Zeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419267
- Language: English
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Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me
$14.95 Read more1985. Dinosaur, still without the Jr. Not hardcore anymore, but not yet anything else either. First live shows: fearsomely loud. First record, a fearsome mess: a raw miscellany thrown together from sm
- Series: 33 1/3 #82
- Author: Attfield, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441187782
- Language: English
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Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden
$14.95 Read moreCome to My Garden (1970) introduced the world to Minnie Riperton, the solo artist. Minnie captivated listeners with her earth-shattering voice’s uncanny ability to evoke melancholy and exultance. Born
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Proctor, Brittnay L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1501379151
- Language: English
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Esg’s Come Away with Esg
$14.95 Read moreESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs. The band’s signature guitar sound from iconic single ‘UFO
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Percy, Cheri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501379194
- Language: English
