Faking It by Y. Taylor & H. Barker
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
In the last fifty years, the quest for authenticity, for the 'real', has become a dominant factor in musical taste - whether it be the folklorist's search for forgotten bluesmen, the rock critic's elevation of raw power over sophistication, or the importance of bullet wounds to the careers of hip-hop ar ...Show more
And They All Sang : Great musicians talk about their music by Terkel Studs
$29.95 AUD
Category: Music
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel hosted a legendary daily radio programme in Chicago - presenting listeners with his singular take on an eclectic range of music from classical, opera, and jazz to gospel, blues, folk and rock.
Psychic Soviet by Svenonius Ian
$22.00 AUD
Category: Music
The Psychic Soviet is indispensable reading for anyone who wonders where rock 'n' roll comes from, where it is going and what it really means. Includes 19 essays by musician Ian Svenonius, who has long been leading the light in underground rock 'n' roll's attempts to define itself against bourgeois cult ...Show more
So What:The Life of Miles Davis by John F. Szwed
$32.95 AUD
Category: Music
Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the one record people who own no other jazz records possess, and still sells 250,000 copies a year in the US alone. But Miles regular ...Show more
The Clash by Strummer, Jones, Simonon & Headon
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music
This title presents Strummer, Jones, Simonon & Headon, in their own words for the first time. It is the music book of 2008.From White Riot to Rock The Casbah , The Clash were a band like no other. Part of the original wave of British punk bands to emerge in the 1970s, their skilled musicianship, int ...Show more
Pretty Vacant: A History of Punk by Phil Strongman
$59.95 AUD
Category: Music
From the precursors of punk, through the famous Bill Grundy show when punk first hit the nation's consciousness to the modern-day heirs, such as Green Day and Busted, punk has evolved and taken over so many aspects of life that even banks now use punk lettering to appeal to their markets. In this brilli ...Show more
Ace Records Labels Unlimited by Stubbs David
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
From humble beginnings at a London market stall, Ace Records has gone on to change the face of popular music. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades. Ace ...Show more
The Great Rock Discography by Martin C. Strong
$69.95 AUD
Category: Music
Here is the tome that tells you everything you want to know about everyone you need to know about: with thousands of hits from the likes of the B52s, L7 and U2 to the Four Tops, Sevendust and 10cc. You can check out a whole spectrum of info on Living Colour and Rainbow; as well as Pink, the Red Hot Chil ...Show more
Pretty Vacant by Phil Strongman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
From the precursors of punk, through the famous Bill Grundy show when punk first hit the nation's consciousness to the modern-day heirs, such as Green Day and Busted, punk has evolved and taken over so many aspects of life that even banks now use punk lettering to appeal to their markets. In this brill ...Show more