History & Criticism
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Close to the Edge: The Story of Yes
$19.99 Add to cartThe 40-year story of the rock band Yes reveals the rows, bust-ups and personal tensions, the twists, surprises, humour and drama of their lives together. Welch talks to members past and present and tr… [more below]
- Author: Welch, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 184772132X
- Language: English
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Sonic Sewer Volume 1: A Vinyl Obsessive’s Guided Tour Through Music History
$19.95 Add to cartAfter 34 individual issues, 8 collected books, and 25 years, author Robin Bougie’s celebrated cult movie magazine Cinema Sewer came to a lamented finish — but out of the ashes rises a new titan of th… [more below]
- Series: Sonic Sewer #1
- Author: Bougie, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1913051390
- Language: English
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Search & Destroy: The Complete Archive
$24.95 Read moreThe collected run of the groundbreaking and iconoclastic zine.
From 1977 to 1979, Search & Destroy chronicled the birth of San Francisco’s punk scene with an intensity and vision that transformed musi- Author: Vale, V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1965874266
- Language: English
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Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting
$60.00 Add to cartReaders step into the history of Modeline, the brand that revolutionized midcentury modern lighting. Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting unveils Bernie Roberts’s journey from a penniles… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0764370286
- Language: English
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How to Watch a Movie
$24.00 Add to cartIn his most inventive exploration of the medium yet, David Thomson–one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema–shows us how to get more out of watching any movie. Guiding us through
- Author: Thomson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1101910844
- Language: English
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Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
$28.00 Add to cart“A stroke of genius! This is the definitive love letter to the film, written with such meticulous passion and demented glee that you feel yourself standing on the set during the shoot.” –Greg Nicoter… [more below]
- Author: Kraus, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1640097155
- Language: English
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The Animation Atlas: The Ghibliotheque Guide to the World of Animated Film
$29.95 Add to cartAnimation is a global artform, and The Animation Atlas is your essential guide to this exciting, expansive world.
From Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham, authors and hosts of the Ghibliotheque podcas- Author: Cunningham, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 103542729X
- Language: English
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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music
$14.95 Add to cartTough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away.
In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from- Author: Shipley, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1917516061
- Language: English
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Steven Wilson: Every Album, Every Song
$22.95 Read moreSteven Wilson has been described by The Telegraph as ‘probably the most successful British musician most people have never heard of’. His last three solo albums have made the top five in the UK, and h… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1789523176
- Language: English
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Jack White Complete Lyrics and Selected Writing
$55.00 Add to cartJack White Complete Lyrics and Selected Writings collects the artist’s lyrics for Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, his solo recordings and collaborations. The book also features never before seen poems a… [more below]
- Author: White, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992483802
- Language: English
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En Vivo Desde Am?rica: C?mo La TV Latina Conquist? Estados Unidos
$19.95 Add to cartLa investigaci?n es exhaustiva y no recuerdo haber le?do nada as? . –Jorge Ramos
Esta interesante obra tiene un tono de sabidur?a y drama al mismo tiempo; a veces es como una telenovela, a veces co
- Author: MarÃn, Javier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 6073931638
- Language: Spanish
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The Star Wars Archives. 1999-2005
$100.00 Add to cartFrom the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hybrid Darth Vader. In 1999, creator George Lucas began
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: November 29 2025
- ISBN10: 383659823X
- Language: English
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Long Take
$24.95 Add to cartA multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director
For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. “It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies,” he said. “In other words, tak
- Author: Kurosawa, Akira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1517903297
- Language: English
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Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle
$18.00 Read moreNewly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, Conquest of the Useless, the legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog’s diary of the making of Fitzcarraldo, one of his most revered and classic films
In 1982, the vi- Author: Herzog, Werner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0593832132
- Language: English
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Raised on Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola – The Aor Glory Years 1976-1986
$30.00 Add to cartA massively entertaining oral biography of the golden era of critically derided yet monumentally popular radio rock, when Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Toto, and more ruled the airwaves
Paul Rees’
- Author: Rees, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836041
- Language: English
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Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition
$18.99 Add to cart“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times
***Revised and updated with a new Afterword from the author.***
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. S
- Author: Thomas, Richard F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0062937987
- Language: English
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Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
$19.99 Add to cart“Smart and entertaining . . . Gefter shows why Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the ’60s like a torpedo.” –NPR, Fresh Air
“Delicious.” –New York Times Book Review The behind-the-scenes story of a p- Author: Gefter, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639736670
- Language: English
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They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
$29.95 Add to cartA deep dive into the grit and glamor of America’s favorite criminal couple and the nation’s love affair with guns.
On May 23, 1934, two borderline inept but ruthless criminals named Clyde Barrow and B- Author: Ellis, Kirk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369375
- Language: English
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Plunderphonics
$19.95 Add to cartFeaturing interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright and intellectual property, Plunderphonics explores the impact of a genre that made illeg
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Blackwell, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765119488
- Language: English
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Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
$18.99 Add to cart“Filled with hilarious stories and sweet observations, Welcome to Pawnee is a book for any Parks and Rec fan. It’s funny and straight from the heart. Jim did a great job of not Jerry-ing this book.” –
- Author: O’Heir, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 006329351X
- Language: English
