Looking To Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing by Peter Guralnick
$26.99 AUD
Category: Music
By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed the full sweep of blues, gospel, country, an ...Show more
Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II by Stephen Morris
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . .Poised on the brink of success, the dizzying heights of the unknown lying ahead, Ian Curtis had taken his own life. Grieving yet determined, Stephen Morris emerged from the wreckage of Joy ...Show more
The Life and Times of Malcolm Mclaren - The Biography by Paul Gorman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Excellent . . . With this book, Gorman convincingly moves away from the ossified image of McLaren as a great rock'n'roll swindler, a morally bankrupt punk Mephistopheles, and closer towards his art-school roots, his love of ideas. Tiresome, unpleasant, even cruel - he was, this book underlines, never bo ...Show more
Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life by John O'Connell
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Category: Music
'What is your idea of perfect happiness?' 'Reading. ''What is the quality you most like in a man?'' The ability to return books.' Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Mada ...Show more
Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense by Ronen Givony
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Category: Music
The first full-length biography of the '90s preeminent band, Pearl Jam follows the band's origins, evolution, personalities, politics, failures, triumphs, and impacts. It starts with their serendipitous founding, and the birth of grunge, in late 1991-its achievements, and myths-and continues through the ...Show more
Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon by Jennifer Otter-Bickerdike
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Category: Music
A timely and unique portrait of one of music's most talented, troubled and talked-about modern icons, re-examining the prolific career, publicised life and continued cultural relevance of pop princess Britney Spears. With her canon of best-selling singles, electrifying stage performances and iconic mus ...Show more
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
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Category: Music
A rigorous and celebratory journey through the history of pop music, from the former New York Times music critic. From his own adolescence, when his allegiance was to punk rock, to his work as one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture at the New York Times and the New Yorker, Kelefa S ...Show more
Booze and Vinyl: a Music-And-Mixed-Drinks Matching Game by André Darlington; Tenaya Darlington
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Category: Music
Take your listening sessions to the next level with the game edition of the essential cocktail guide Booze & Vinyl, pairing groundbreaking albums with mood-setting mixed drinks in an entertaining new way. CARD PAIRING GAME: Includes 100 full-color printed cards to match 50 sets of great music + b ...Show more
Perfect Pitch -100 pieces of classical music to bring joy, tears, solace, empathy, inspiration (& everything in between) by Tim Bouverie
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Category: Music
'This is exactly the book I want to read at the moment. Presented with style and humour, the choice of 100 pieces immediately starts you off a hunt for your own favourites... It's a perfect introduction to classical music for a beginner, a companion for the music lover, and sheer entertainment for both. ...Show more
Hip-Hop (and other things) by Shea Serrano
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Category: Music
HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things. It's a smart, fun, funny, insightful book that spends the entirety of its time celebrating what has become the most dominant form of music over the past two and a half decades. From Tupac to Jay Z, Missy Elliott to Drake, ...Show more
Codex Metallum: The secret art of metal decoded by Alt236, Maxwell
$69.99 AUD
Category: Music
Decode the secret language of metal. Metal music has a rich and powerful visual language like no other genre. From death and the devil to mythology and the occult, the artworks of its greatest albums carry a complex hidden code of deeper meanings. Codex Metallum is your unique guide to these visual the ...Show more
Lightning Striking by Lenny Kaye
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
'A true testimonial and epic love letter to the soul saving power of rock & roll . . . Read it and be inspired, as I was' Bobby Gillespie Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool, 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984. Norway 1993 ...Show more