History & Criticism
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Iron Maiden: Album by Album, Updated Edition
$35.00 Read moreRequired reading for any metalhead, this updated compendium of in-depth, entertaining, and profusely illustrated conversations spanning all of Iron Maiden’s studio albums includes 2021’s Senjutsu.
In- Series: Album by Album
- Author: Popoff, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0760389276
- Language: English
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Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive and fascinating biography of the musical trailblazer who wrote the classic “Blue Suede Shoes” and was the influence behind countless other legendary hits, a rock and roll legend in his … [more below]
- Author: Apter, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543523
- Language: English
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McU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
$19.99 Add to cartMarvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the … [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 132409558X
- Language: English
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Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean
$29.95 Read moreA fresh and long-overdue reassessment of James Dean, examining his life and legacy as a queer man.
Although he died at a heartbreakingly young age and appeared in only a handful of movies, James Dean r
- Author: Colavito, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085654
- Language: English
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Modest Mouse’s the Moon & Antarctica
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1999, Modest Mouse struck out for Chicago to record their major-label debut for Epic Records. Amid indie circle cries of “sellouts,” a largely untested producer, and a half-built studio, the trio r
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Petit, Zachary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765106754
- Language: English
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The Little Guide to the Sopranos: The Only Ones You Can Depend on
$8.95 Add to cart“Buy land, ’cause God ain’t making any more of it.”
When The Sopranos aired in 1999, it was at the forefront what is now known as the Golden Age of TV. Revolving around a suburban New Jersey gangster- Series: Little Books of Film & TV
- Author: Orange Hippo!
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1800695594
- Language: English
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The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music
$19.99 Read moreA veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, with dire consequences for the future of our culture… [more below]
- Author: Rowell, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 168589139X
- Language: English
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Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
$18.99 Add to cartTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Fe
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062366696
- Language: English
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Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love
$14.95 Add to cartHounds Of Love invites you to not only listen, but to cross the boundaries of sensory experience into realms of imagination and possibility. Side A spawned four Top 40 hit singles in the UK, ‘Running
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Kardos, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765106990
- Language: English
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House of Psychotic Women: Expanded Edition: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
$39.95 Add to cartHOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN has attained canonical status, having ushered in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse’s acclaimed book is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in hor… [more below]
- Author: Janisse, Kier-La
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 191305134X
- Language: English
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Dolly Parton’s White Limozeen
$14.95 Add to cartA discussion of White Limozeen, from Dolly’s self-fashioning to a rigorous critique of her genre.
White Limozeen (1989) was a commercial recovery after Dolly Parton’s first major failure two years prev- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Easton, Steacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1501390406
- Language: English
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Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night: The Tale of the Stray Cats
$40.43 Add to cartA comprehensive guide to the band with praise from Booklist saying “Stray Cats fans and music lovers in general will appreciate this exhaustively researched document of the group’s influential and len
- Author: McKittrick, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1493074822
- Language: English
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Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartAlbertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and t
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 132408622X
- Language: English
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Two-Headed Doctor: Listening for Ghosts in Dr. Johns Gris-Gris
$24.95 Read moreA forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper’s Gris-gris.
Two-Headed Doctor is a forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper’s Gris-gris. Though rele- Author: Toop, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1913689603
- Language: English
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Lost: Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to the Classic TV Series
$30.00 Read moreA comprehensive and critical companion to the blockbuster TV show LOST, revisiting its core themes, lore, and impact on culture
Before it premiered in the fall of 2004, LOST looked doomed to be an e- Author: St James, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 141975050X
- Language: English
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60 Songs That Explain the ’90s
$21.99 Add to cartONE OF PITCHFORK’S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2023
Now in paperback, a companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decad- Author: Harvilla, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1538759470
- Language: English
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In Defense of Ska: Expanded 2nd Edition
$24.95 Add to cartOne of Pitchfork’s 11 Best Music Books of 2021
Recommended book in Rolling Stones June 2021 Issue
With an additional 30,000 words of compelling stories, research, and analysis, music journalist and In
- Author: Carnes, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1955904715
- Language: English
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Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis
$35.00 Add to cartNo one played like Jesse Ed Davis. One of the most sought-after guitarists of the late 1960s and ’70s, Davis appeared alongside the era’s greatest stars–John Lennon and Mick Jagger, B.B. King and Bob
- Author: Miller, Douglas K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324092092
- Language: English
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
$20.99 Add to cartThe “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling b… [more below]
- Author: Eyman, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1982176369
- Language: English
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Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music
$24.95 Add to cartDown On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.
One day around 197
- Author: Baker, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1916829104
- Language: English
