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Roots: How Melbourne Became the Live Music Capital of the World by Craig Horne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Roots is the history of live music in Melbourne, from jazz to blues, country, folk, rhythm and blues to rock, and the socio-political stories of those musicians who played what they wanted, when they wanted, without a damn.
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine
$16.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Social Ser.
SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR. ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR. MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.A year later, she was the guita ...Show more
1965: the Most Revolutionary Year in Music by Andrew Grant Jackson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Music
A lively chronicle of the year that shaped popular music forever, with an all new Spotify appendix More than half a century ago, friendly rivalry between musicians turned 1965 into the year rock evolved into the premier art form of its time and accelerated the drive for personal freedom throughout the ...Show more
Please Kill Me The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil; Gillian McCain
$30.00 AUD
Category: Music
ATime Out andDaily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release,Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilist of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, Jim Carroll, and scores of other famous and infamous punk figures lend their voic ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time by Alex Jeffery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story, it is set in the then con ...Show more
Duran Duran's Rio 33 1/3 by Annie Zaleski
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a retr ...Show more
Roxy Music's Avalon by Simon A. Morrison
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered. Ferry parted ...Show more
The Hard Stuff - Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities by Wayne Kramer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and co-founder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5, tells his story in The Hard Stuff.
Two Beats Ahead - What Great Musical Minds Teach Us about Innovation by Panos A. Panay; R. Michael Hendrix
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
'A roadmap for innovators, entrepreneurs and those seeking new avenues for exploring and reimagining the future' Deepak Chopra 'Groundbreaking' Amy Cuddy, bestselling author of Presence Musicians know how to stay ahead of the beat. As Chance the Rapper said 'Technology moves faster than business and ...Show more
Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, fearless activism, and of the enduring power of song. Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinéad O'Connor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s ...Show more
Down the Highway - The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
The acclaimed biography substantially updated and revised, Howard Sounes's Down the Highway broke news about Dylan's fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard as the most comprehensive and riveting biography on Bob Dylan. Now, on the occasion of Dylan's seventieth birthday, this edition contin ...Show more