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  • Dilla Time

    The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

    by Dan Charnas ...
    **WINNER OF THE PEN/**JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” —QUESTLOVEEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Fanatic!

    Songs Lists and Notes from the Harmony In My Head Radio Show

    by Henry Rollins ...
    In 2004, when legendary Los Angeles radio station Indie 103.1 asked Henry Rollins to host a show, he jumped at the chance. He chose the name Harmony in My Head,” based on his favorite Buzzcocks tune. As lead man for Black Flag, Rollins was present at the raw beginnings of punk and knew many of its stars. But Rollins’ taste encompassed more than punk, and the show became a cult favorite featuring ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Jeff Buckley

    His Own Voice

    Edited by Mary Guibert, David Browne ...
    The journals, notebooks, musings, and early song drafts of Jeff Buckley, the late singer best-known for the definitive version of "Hallelujah" and his classic album Grace, including dozens of evocative photos of his personal effects and ephemera.After the release of his acclaimed debut album, Grace, in 1994, Jeff Buckley quickly established himself as one of the decade's most defining talents in ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Jeff Buckley

    From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye

    For the first time since Jeff Buckley’s untimely death on May 29, 1997, Dave Lory reveals what it was like to work alongside one of rock’s most celebrated and influential artists. Go on the road and behind the scenes with Buckley, from his electrifying first solo shows in New York to the difficult sessions for the second album he never completed.Lory opens up about their struggles with the record ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Meet Me in the Bathroom

    Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

    by Lizzy Goodman ...
    Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQJoining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Runnin' with the Devil

    A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen

    The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music.Van Halen’s rise in the 1980s was one of the most thrilling the music world had ever seen—their mythos an epic party, a sweaty, sexy, never-ending rock extravaganza. During this ... Read more

    $13.99 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

    $14.99 USD

  • Bon: The Last Highway

    The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC’s Back In Black, Updated Edition of the Definitive Biography

    by Jesse Fink ...
    An affectionate, honest tribute now updated with new revelations about the rock and roll icon who helped make AC/DC an international sensationThe second edition of Bon: The Last Highway includes a brand new 16-page introduction. Fink examines…New information from French media that changes what we know about who was with Bon Scott the night he diedThe London drug-dealing connections of the late ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Anvil!

    The Story of Anvil

    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

  • Reckless

    My Life as a Pretender

    Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure.Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all-around kick-assedness into such a potent and alluring package. From “Tatooed Love Boys” and “Brass in Pocket” to “Talk of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • John Lennon: The Life

    by Philip Norman ...
    For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom being a Beatle was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, Norman presents the comprehensive ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Love Him Madly

    An Intimate Memoir of Jim Morrison

    Chronicling a young woman’s four-year relationship with the lead singer of the Doors, this intensely intimate memoir provides a direct and unprecedented view of the late-1960s Los Angeles subculture. When Judy Huddleston's parents got divorced, she spent her last year of high school attending concerts. Transformed from a perceptive child into a rebellious teenager bent on attracting boys and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Spice Girls: The Story of the World’s Greatest Girl Band

    by Sean Smith ...
    ‘Get the inside scoop on all things Spice!’OK! Magazine'A compelling new book' Daily ExpressFrom the moment they burst into our lives, the Spice Girls have inspired millions around the world.Emma, Geri, Melanie C, Mel B and Victoria were adored and admired in equal measure. Their determination, fierce independence and Girl Power philosophy have motivated generation after generation of young ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Last Chance Texaco

    Chronicles of an American Troubadour

    A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning “premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation” (Hilton Als), Rickie Lee Jones.This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.Last ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory | Summary

    “Hook - First Verse - Chorus - Second Verse - Chorus - Bridge - Chorus - Outro.” Cleverly laid out as the chapters in John Seabrook’s newest title is the algorithm for the “hit track.” The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory is all about the hit track: Who writes them, how they are made, their emergence into mainstream culture and their relevance in today’s society. In the First Verse, John ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Deep Purple - Uncensored On the Record

    by Jerry Bloom ...
    This is a comprehensive in-depth exploration of the career and work of one of the worlds greatest hard rock bands.With the likes of Richie Blackmore, Ian Gillan and David Coverdale passing through their ranks, Deep Purple was always destined to produce extraordinary music - what was less predictable was in the incredible story of the bands formation, rise to fame and struggle to cope with the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

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    Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock 'n' roll history-relegated to cult status among post-punk and indie rock fans. Their lasting appeal owes itself to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hit So Hard

    A Memoir

    by Patty Schemel ...
    A stunningly candid portrait of the Seattle grunge scene of the '90s and a memoir of an addict during the last great era of rock 'n' roll excess, by Hole drummer Patty SchemelPatty Schemel's story begins with a childhood surrounded by the AA meetings her parents hosted in the family living room. Their divorce triggered her first forays into drinking at age twelve and dovetailed with her passion ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The London Boys

    David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream

    by Marc Burrows ...
    Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths. From the day they met in 1965 as Davie Jones and Mark Feld, rock 'n' roll wannabes painting their manager's office in London’s Denmark Street, they would remain friends and rivals, each watching closely and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Cars - Almost Complete Greatest Hits: Drum Sheet Music

    by Evan Jaslow ...
    Drum tab sheet music transcriptions for 18 of the 20 tracks on The Cars Complete Greatest Hits album. Drums by David Robinson. Overall difficulty 3/5. Includes Just What I Needed, My Best Friend's Girl, Good Times Roll, Bye Bye Love, Moving in Stereo, Let's Go, It's All I Can Do, Dangerous Type, Touch and Go, Shake it Up, Since You're Gone, You Might Think, Drive, Magic, Hello Again, Why Can't I ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Magic Years

    Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life

    Jonathan Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band in the 60s, producer of major films in the 70s, an executive at Merrill Lynch in the 80s, creator of the Internet’s first Video-on-Demand service in the 90s, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Capitol Contingency

    Post-Punk, Indie Rock, and Noise Pop in Washington, D.C., 1991-99

    Capitol Contingency chronicles a unique time in a uniquely vibrant music scene: Washington, D.C., 1991-1999. Punk was broken; the Internet had yet to engulf society; the major label compact disc marketing system was in its greatest -- and final -- era of dominance before its file-sharing-imposed collapse. And the nation's capital, already ground zero for some of the nation's best hardcore punk and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Girls to the Front

    The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

    by Sara Marcus ...
    “Not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement. . . but also a rousing inspiration for a new generation of empowered rebel girls to strap on guitars and stick it to The Man.” — Vanity FairGirls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement—the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Come Up

    An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop

    The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture—from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire“The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful.”—Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author ... Read more

    $13.99 USD