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  • Cher

    The Memoir, Part One

    by Cher ...
    Series Book 1 - The Cher Memoir
    The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • On Bowie

    by Rob Sheffield ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fans.Innovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January 2016, David Bowie created art that not only pushed boundaries, but helped fans understand themselves and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heartbreak Is the National Anthem

    How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

    by Rob Sheffield ...
    ***The Instant New York Times Bestseller!***An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There’s no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world’s favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Songs In The Key of MP3

    The New Icons of the Internet Age

    by Liam Inscoe-Jones ...
    It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay.Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of a button. New forms of musical discovery open up before your very eyes. This evolving digital landscape exists beyond the radio, HMV and even the most extensive record collection. You've entered a whole new world and, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $11.99 USD

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  • My Effin' Life

    by Geddy Lee ...
    The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and New York Times bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass.Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an essential part of the ... Read more

    $21.49 USD

  • On Streisand

    An Opinionated Guide

    by Ethan Mordden ...
    She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of dramatic vocalism in which each song is like a miniature three-act play. And Streisand's films changed forever the ideal of how a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Gwen Stefani and No Doubt: Simple Kind of Life

    by Jeff Apter ...
    The eclectic Orange County band No Doubt was formed in 1986 by Eric Stefani and John Spence who soon recruited Eric’s younger sister Gwen as co-vocalist. With the addition of Tony Kanal on Bass, they launched a 20 year career that would fuse ska, grunge, alt. rock and shades of several other musical genres into a unique mix.The 1987 suicide of John Spence resulted in the battlefield promotion of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Anvil!

    The Story of Anvil

    by Lips Reiner, Robb Reiner ...
    In the early seventies, when Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath ruled the world, Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner, two young Jewish boys from the northern suburbs of Toronto, vowed to rock together forever. A decade later, their band Anvil released one of the heaviest records in music history, Metal on Metal, which influenced a whole musical generation, including the world-dominating bands ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dreaming Japanese

    by Marty Friedman ...
    The rollicking autobiography of the iconic guitarist who took thrash metal behemoths Megadeth from the edge of collapse to their highest peak before departing to Japan for the joy of J-Pop.Marty Friedman’s upbringing was as atypical as his career. Growing up in a Jewish household in Maryland, the son of an NSA executive, he lacked motivation until he accidentally discovered the guitar and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Folk City

    New York and the American Folk Music Revival

    by Stephen Petrus, Ronald D. Cohen ...
    From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Café to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. Folk City explores New York's central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America. It involves the efforts of record company ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Black Punk Now

    Edited by Chris L. Terry, James Spooner Spooner ...
    A canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by generations of Black punks—featuring both new voices and those from the not-so-recent pastBlack Punk Now is an anthology of contemporary nonfiction, fiction, illustrations, and comics that collectively describe punk today and give punks—especially the Black ones—a wider frame of reference. It shows all ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Pink Floyd

    Album by Album

    by Martin Popoff ...
    Series series Album by Album
    An in-depth discography filled with facts, photos, and conversations with musicians, rock journalists, and fans of the band.This stunning look back at Pink Floyd’s discography comprises a series of in-depth, frank, and entertaining conversations about all of the band’s studio albums, including their soundtrack efforts and the instrumental/ambient The Endless River. Inside, prolific rock journalist ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls

    Women's Country Music, 1930-1960

    by Stephanie Vander Wel ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    A PopMatters Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020From the 1930s to the 1960s, the booming popularity of country music threw a spotlight on a new generation of innovative women artists. These individuals blazed trails as singers, musicians, and performers even as the industry hemmed in their potential popularity with labels like woman hillbilly, singing cowgirl, and honky-tonk angel.Stephanie Vander Wel ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Traveling

    On the Path of Joni Mitchell

    by Ann Powers ...
    *An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.“What you are about to read is not a standard account of the life and work of Joni Mitchell. Instead, it’s a tale of long journeying through a life that changed popular music: of a homesick ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Mars the Bringer of War Easy Piano Sheet Music with Colored Notes

    by Gustav Holst ...
    From Holst's famous "Planets Suite" for Easy PianoA SilverTonalities Arrangement!With Colored Notation to enable Beginner Pianists to read Music quickly and accurately! ... Read more

    $3.59 USD

  • The Blues Brothers

    An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

    by Daniel de Visé ...
    The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture“They’re not going to catch us,” Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. “We’re on a mission from God.” So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Totally Wired

    Postpunk Interviews and Overviews

    by Simon Reynolds ...
    With his critically acclaimed Rip It Up and Start Again, renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds applied a unique understanding to an entire generation of musicians working in the wake of punk rock. Spawning artists as singular as Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Specials, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Gang of Four, and Devo, postpunk achieved new relevance in the first decade of the twenty-first ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Roomanitarian

    by Henry Rollins ...
    In Roomanitarian, popular author, actor, musician, and spoken-word artist Henry Rollins returns to the combative prose that has won him critical acclaim and a legion of devoted fans. The book is divided into three parts: The first section, "Walking the Chasm,” written in the form of a poem, epitomizes Rollins’s beautifully stark, hard-hitting style. The second part, "Ended," is a series of short ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • And the Roots of Rhythm Remain

    by Joe Boyd ...
    Series Book 6 - ZE Series
    From the legendary producer of Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, REM, and Taj Mahal and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a riveting, world-spanning tour of the artists, histories, controversies, and collaborations that shaped global music.When Paul Simon first heard the Zulu accordion flourish that would open his multi-platinum album Graceland, he told Joe Boyd that it seemed to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • American Hardcore (Second Edition)

    A Tribal History

    by Steven Blush, George Petros ...
    "American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"-Paper magazineSteven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classicsdistributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Labelle Matters

    by Adele Bertei ...
    Series series Music Matters
    “A smart, shrewd, joyful read, as piercing as any top C shriek from the woman who gave Labelle their name.” —Barney Hoskyns, author of Glam! Bowie, Bolan, and the Glitter Rock RevolutionPerforming as the Bluebelles in the 1960s, Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash wore bouffant wigs and chiffon dresses, and they harmonized vocals like many other girl groups of the era. After a decade on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rhythm Man

    Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America

    by Stephanie Stein Crease ...
    Series series CULTURAL BIOGRAPHIES SERIES
    The first comprehensive biography of the Swing Era's pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader William Henry "Chick" Webb (1905-39) was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader dubbed the "Savoy King," who reigned at Harlem's world-famous Savoy Ballroom. Along with the likes of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Cab Calloway, Webb helped create the popular ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cursed Questions

    On Music and Its Social Practices

    by Richard Taruskin ...
    Richard Taruskin’s sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insider awareness of relevant debates in all areas of music studies, including historiography and criticism, representation and aesthetics, musical and professional politics, and the sociology of taste. Cursed Questions, invoking a famous catchphrase from Russian ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • 101 discos de tango para la discoteca

    by Héctor Ángel Benedetti ...
    Una guía indispensable, la mejor herramienta para encontrar el camino ala discoteca de tango ideal.No es fácil comprar un disco de tango. No porque no haya; más bien todo lo contrario: hay demasiados. La oferta es múltiple, pero también tramposa. Y puede derivar en una experiencia frustrante si al llegar a casa y poner el disco (ese gran momento para todo melómano) no aparece lo que estábamos ... Read more

    $4.99 USD