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  • Kraftwerk

    Future Music from Germany

    by Uwe Schütte ...
    The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, expermenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • I Am Brian Wilson

    The genius behind the Beach Boys

    by Brian Wilson ...
    'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they'll get it right and sometimes they'll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are painful. Sometimes I don't like discussing them. Sometimes I don't even like remembering them. But as I get older, the shape of ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Roadies

    The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll

    by Stuart Coupe ...
    This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets.Roadies are the unsung heroes of the Australian music industry. They unload the PAs and equipment, they set it all up, they make sure everything is running smoothly before, ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Music Theory for Ukulele

    Master the Essential Knowledge with this Easy, Step-by-Step Method for Beginner to Intermediate Players

    by David Shipway ...
    Learn all you'll ever really need to know as a ukulele player in this step-by-step, easy-to-understand, entry level introduction to music theory (includes online video demos).No music reading necessary, just confusion-free language with diagrams and hands on examples to put theory into practice.This step-by-step guide is for you if:You've just picked up a ukulele and have learned to play a few ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Resilience & Melancholy

    Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism

    by Robin James ...
    When most people think that “little girls should be seen and not heard,” a noisy, riotous scream can be revolutionary. But that’s not the case anymore. (Cis/Het/White) Girls aren’t supposed to be virginal, passive objects, but Poly-Styrene-like sirens who scream back in spectacularly noisy and transgressive ways as they “Lean In.” Resilience is the new, neoliberal feminine ideal: real women ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Play It Again

    An Amateur Against The Impossible

    In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 – a piece that inspires dread in many professional pianists.His timing could have been better.The next twelve months were to witness the Arab Spring, the Japanese tsunami, the English riots, and the Guardian’s breaking of both WikiLeaks and the News ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • The Musician's Way

    A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness

    In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I, Artful Practice, describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, and more. Part II, Fearless Performance, lifts the lid on the hidden ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD

  • Texas Tornado

    The Times and Music of Doug Sahm

    Series series Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series
    A biography of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados founder, a rock and roll innovator whose Grammy Award–winning career spans half the twentieth century.Doug Sahm was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of legendary range and reputation. The first American musician to capitalize on the 1960s British invasion, Sahm vaulted to international fame leading a faux-British band called the Sir ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beethoven

    The Universal Composer

    by Edmund Morris ...
    Series series Eminent Lives
    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston.Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of Beethoven, brings the great composer to life as a ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music in the Castle of Heaven

    A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate?John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents' house ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Working Class Man

    The No.1 Bestseller

    by Jimmy Barnes ...
    THE SEQUEL TO THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER WORKING CLASS BOYIt's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan. In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class Boy, Jimmy picks up the story of his life ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Working Class Boy

    by Jimmy Barnes ...
    A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy whose family made the journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life.Working Class ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Pleasure and Pain

    My life

    Chrissy Amphlett is a true legend of Australian rock’n’roll. Here, the spellbinding performer who inspired and outraged as lead singer of the Divinyls tells her own amazing story.In this raw, gripping and searingly honest account, Chrissy spares no one – least of all herself. She reveals how she formed the Divinyls and, with a unique voice, steely ambition and an outrageous stage act powered them ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Seven Deadly Sins

    by Corey Taylor ...
    'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so'The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, systematically set about committing each of the Seven Deadly Sins. He has picked fights with douche bags openly brandishing guns. He has set himself on ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • What Does This Button Do?

    ‘I was spotty, wore an anorak, had biro-engraved flared blue jeans with “purple” and “Sabbath” written on the thighs, and rode an ear-splittingly uncool moped. Oh yes, and I wanted to be a drummer…’Bruce Dickinson – Iron Maiden’s legendary front man – is one of the world’s most iconic singers and songwriters. But there are many strings to Bruce’s bow, of which larger-than-life lead vocalist is ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Songlines

    by Bruce Chatwin ...
    Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and the secrets of its past. In this magical account, Chatwin recalls his travels across the length ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Las Vegas Elvis Presley

    by Thomas Chi ...
    Publisher Thomas Chi returned to Memphis six months each year to interview for the Elvis book. He spent more time in Las Vegas, Nevada interviewing Elvis's girlfriends, lovers, and the dancers with stories about Elvis. Listen to the stories about Elvis. Travel the Blues Highway from New Orleans to Memphis.Thomas Chi writes about Jazz along the Blues Highway from New Orleans to Chicago. Listen to ... Read more

    $1.36 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Appetite for Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns ‘N’ Roses

    by Steven Adler ...
    From original Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler comes the inside story of Guns N’ Roses through a new perspective and his own intense struggle with addiction.Guns N' Roses are one of America's most successful rock bands, with estimated sales of 90 million albums worldwide. Steven Adler is the original drummer, with an infamous past of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll that led to his removal from the ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll

    Collected Music Writings 2005-09

    Sometimes I play a game in my head: name the five best American rock bands of the ’60s. My list goes: The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Doors, and then I stall on the fifth. Creedence? The Band – although they’re mostly Canadian. Simon and Garfunkel? Jefferson Airplane? The Lovin’ Spoonful? But I plump for The Monkees.In The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll, Robert Forster takes ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Whole Notes

    by Ed Ayres ...
    Life Lessons through MusicShortlisted for The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year; People's Choice, Queensland Books of the Year; Booksellers' Choice Non-fiction Book of the Year.How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves?One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • Gudinski

    The Godfather of Australian Rock

    by Stuart Coupe ...
    **The real story of the man behind the bands - and a backstage pass to forty years of Australian rock music.**Known to many as GODinski, Michael Gudinski is unquestionably the most powerful and influential figure in the Australian rock'n'roll music business - and has been for the last four decades.Often referred to as 'the father of the Australian music industry', he has nurtured the careers of ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • Metallica: Enter Night

    The Biography

    by Mick Wall ...
    'A flaming juggernaut of heavy-metal biog' GUARDIAN'This is the definitive account of heavy metal's biggest band of all' CLASSIC ROCK'Truly enlightening' ROCK SOUND'ENTER NIGHT, Mick Wall's biography of Metallica confirms this grizzled veteran to be as engaged and waspishly authoritative a chronicler of metal's most hirsute behemoths as Barry Miles has been for the Beats' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY<... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Learn How to Play Piano Keyboard for Absolute Beginners

    A Self Tuition Book for Adults and Teenagers!

    Learn to Play Piano / Keyboard for Absolute Beginners - A Self Tuition Book for Adults and Teenagers!New Unique Book for 2015 - 180 A4 pages of Quality (Printable) InformationAs the name suggests, this book has been written for the absolute beginner and assumes no prior musical knowledge - just the desire to do it!You will not be disappointed with this superb new book which is probably the easiest ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • The Lost Pianos of Siberia

    A Sunday Times Book of 2020

    by Sophy Roberts ...
    A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021* Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize* A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020* Now with colour photography by Michael Turek'Richly absorbing... An impressive exploration of Siberia's terrifying past.' Guardian'Evocative and wond... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD