Genres & Styles
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Autonomy: Portrait of a Buzzcock
$30.00 Add to cartFrom bass player to lead guitarist, singer and last remaining founding member, Steve Diggle has been the driving force keeping Buzzcocks alive since he first met Pete Shelley in 1976. Together they wo
- Author: Diggle, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1915841089
- Language: English
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Make: Electronic Music from Scratch: A Beginner’s Guide to Homegrown Audio Gizmos
$39.99 Add to cartDon’t just play music, make music!
Make: Electronic Music from Scratch is a crash course in the joys of musical circuitry that teaches makers to become musicians, and musicians to become makers. Writ… [more below]
- Author: Pearson, Kirk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 365
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1680458094
- Language: English
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D. O. Double G: The Little Guide to Snoop Dogg
$8.95 Add to cartAmerica’s Original Gangsta.
Snoop Doggy Dogg fired up the burgeoning U.S. rap scene in 1993 with his outstanding debut, Doggystyle. It not only revolutionised a genre, it also put West Coast ganstas a
- Series: Little Books of Music
- Author: Orange Hippo!
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1800696272
- Language: English
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A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman
$34.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of songwriter Randy Newman, told with his full cooperation, by acclaimed biographer and longtime Los Angeles Times music critic, Robert Hilburn
Randy Newman is widely hailed- Author: Hilburn, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0306834693
- Language: English
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Patti Smith: Before Easter After
$65.00 Add to cartA new trade publication of Before Easter After, originally published in a limited edition at $1,000.
Hundreds of rarely seen images by legendary photographer Lynn Goldsmith offer an intimate portrait- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0847874087
- Language: English
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James Brown’s Live at the Apollo
$14.95 Read moreIn this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem – an evening at the height of Cold War tensions. In great detail, Wolk pieces together … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #13
- Author: Wolk, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0826415725
- Language: English
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Bad Moon Rising: The Unauthorized History of Creedence Clearwater Revival
$22.99 Add to cartRightly called the saddest story in rock ‘n’ roll history, this Creedence biography–newly updated with stories from band members, producers, business associates, close friends, and families–recounts… [more below]
- Author: Bordowitz, Hank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 155652661X
- Language: English
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Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters Volume 10
$28.99 Add to cartFleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning–their first album was the UK’s bestselling album of 1968. After some low points–when founder Peter Green left, some fans felt that the band continuing … [more below]
- Series: Musicians in Their Own Words
- Author: Egan, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1613732341
- Language: English
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Different Every Time: The Authorized Biography of Robert Wyatt
$19.95 Read moreRobert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He brought a jazz minds… [more below]
- Author: O’Dair, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1593766165
- Language: English
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Cross the Tracks: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartFrom one of rap’s most evocative writers comes a stirring memoir and “masterpiece of a book” (Snoop Dogg) about how Boosie Badazz, one of the industry’s most controversial figures, was able to overcom… [more below]
- Author: Badazz, Boosie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1982131365
- Language: English
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The Martin Ukulele: The Little Instrument That Helped Create a Guitar Giant
$35.00 Add to cart(Book). The Martin Ukulele is a detailed look at the ukuleles built by the C. F. Martin Co. of Nazareth, PA, and at how the instruments’ success forever changed the company that made them. Martin’s uk… [more below]
- Author: King, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1476868794
- Language: English
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101 Classical Themes for Violin
$16.99 Add to cart(Instrumental Folio). This huge collection offers instrumentalists the chance to play 101 classical themes, including: Ave Maria * Bist du bei mir (You Are with Me) * Canon in D * Clair de Lune * Danc… [more below]
- Author: Hal Leonard Corp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1495056317
- Language: English
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The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs
$14.95 Add to cartA fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields’ 1999 triple album, 69 Love Songs – an album that was afforded “classic” status by many almost as soon as it was released. LD Beghtol’s book is
- Series: 33 1/3 #69
- Author: Beghtol, LD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0826419259
- Language: English
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Carole King’s Tapestry
$14.95 Add to cartCarole King’s Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sound and scene. And these two elements of the album’s historic s
- Series: 33 1/3 #153
- Author: Glass, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355627
- Language: English
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Nightfly: The Life of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen
$19.99 Read moreDonald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972.
The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo’s songs made Steely Dan i- Author: Jones, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0913705292
- Language: English
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Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock ‘n’ Roll
$16.95 Add to cartThe son of a sheet-metal worker who led a big band on weekends, Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most distinctive and popular vo… [more below]
- Author: Gramm, Lou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1629377589
- Language: English
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Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop
$24.95 Read moreFirst book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword
Winner of IASPM’s 2005 International Book Award
Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Schloss, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0819574813
- Language: English
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I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Nineteenth Edition (1923) of the Little Red Song Book
$5.95 Add to cartA RADICAL LABOR CLASSIC
Undoubtedly the most popular book in American labor history, the I.W.W.’s Little Red Song Book has been a staple item on picket lines and at other workers’ gatherings for gener
- Series: PM Pamphlet
- Author: Industrial Workers of the World (I W. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: February 24 2014
- ISBN10: 160486950X
- Language: English
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Britney Spears’s Blackout
$14.95 Read moreBritney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In the midst of her public breakdown, she managed to
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Lasky, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1501377590
- Language: English
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A History of Heavy Metal
$15.99 Add to cart‘Absolutely hilarious’ – Neil Gaiman
‘One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read . . . loud and thoroughly engrossing’ – Alan Moore ‘A man on a righteous mission to persuade peop- Author: O’Neill, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1472241452
- Language: English
