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Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead
$14.95 Read moreReleased in 1970, Workingman’s Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold-water-shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late ’60s. It was the band’s most commercially and
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Poole, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1628929243
- Language: English
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Björk’s Homogenic
$14.95 Add to cartIn recent years, Bj rk’s artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New Yor… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: MacKay, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1501322745
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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Trip-Hop
$19.95 Read moreTrip-hop described some of the 1990s’ best music, and it was one of the decade’s most revealing bad ideas.
The music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid the social te- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Wheaton, R. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1501373609
- Language: English
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Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense
$20.95 Add to cartThere has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; sold some 85 million records; played over a thousand shows, in fifty countries; and had five differen
- Author: Givony, Ronen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1501360671
- Language: English
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Elvis Presley’s from Elvis in Memphis
$14.95 Read more“I had to leave town for a little while–” with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to rock and roll. A little over a month earlier he had staged rock’s first and greatest comeback in a televis
- Series: 33 1/3 #150
- Author: Wolfson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1501355384
- Language: English
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads
$14.95 Add to cartIn a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the small town of Millhaven, a teenage girl secretly and gleefully murders her neighbors. A serial killer tra
- Series: 33 1/3 #151
- Author: Holley, Santi Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1501355147
- Language: English
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Janelle Monáe’s the Archandroid
$14.95 Read moreIn Janelle Mon?e’s full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the authorities for the crime of loving a human. Living in 28th
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Favreau, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355708
- Language: English
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s BBC Radiophonic Workshop – A Retrospective
$14.95 Read moreIn 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of pe
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weir, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389157
- Language: English
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The National’s Boxer
$14.95 Read moreWe all know the Boxer. The fighter who remembers every glove but still remains. That grisly, bruised American allegory who somehow gets up more times than he’s knocked down. This is the fight that nea
- Series: 33 1/3 #162
- Author: Pinkard, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1501378015
- Language: English
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Lou Reed’s Transformer
$14.95 Add to cartTransformer, Lou Reed’s most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it’s often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album a… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #131
- Author: Furman, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501323059
- Language: English
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Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape
$46.67 Add to cartNadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first
- Author: Olaru, Stejarel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 06 2023
- ISBN10: 135032129X
- Language: English
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D’Angelo’s Voodoo
$14.95 Add to cartVoodoo, D’Angelo’s much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as “neo-soul,” a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a
- Series: 33 1/3 #144
- Author: Pennick, Faith A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1501336509
- Language: English
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Pencil
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destr- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Beggy, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1501392247
- Language: English
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Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy
$21.95 Read moreTHE TELEGRAPH’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOE BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL BOOK
“As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy no- Author: Powell, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501367315
- Language: English
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The Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat
$14.95 Read moreThe Go-Go’s debut album Beauty and the Beat was released on July 8, 1981. The album spent six weeks in the number one spot on the Billboard charts, produced two hit singles and sold more than two mill
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Whittington-Hill, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1501390287
- Language: English
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Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
$14.95 Add to cartWhen Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-l
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Norelli, Clare Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1501323016
- Language: English
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Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
$14.95 Add to cartKoji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-repla
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Schartmann, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1628928530
- Language: English
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Living Colour’s Time’s Up
$14.95 Read moreThe iconic Black rock band Living Colour’s Time’s Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Time’s Up is a mus
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Mack, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1501377515
- Language: English
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Little Richard’s Here’s Little Richard
$14.95 Read moreFrom male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a Black multimillionaire rock star, he was the most exci
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Bassett, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389114
- Language: English
