Immediate Records Labels Unlimited by Spence Simon
$59.95 AUD
Category: Music
With text by Simon Spence, former writer for NME, i-D and The Face and a collaborator on Oldham's autobiography, "Immediate Records" tells the full story of the label that was "Happy To Be Part of the Industry of Human Happiness" and is published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of t ...Show more
Renegade : The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith by Mark E. Smith
$26.95 AUD
Category: Music
Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music - odd,spare, cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand. And Mark E. Smith Is The Fall - 47 members have come and gone over the years ...Show more
Complete 1975-2006 by Patti Smith
$39.95 AUD
Category: Music
An updated edition of the complete lyrics to Patti Smith's extraordinary catalogue.
Slash: The Autobiography by Slash with Anthony Bozza
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
The long-awaited, never-before-told, no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Guns N' Roses guitarist. Finally, all the lurid tales of sex, drugs and rock n' roll are revealed as Slash describes his incredible rollercoaster journey as part of the biggest rock band in the world, living life to the full ...Show more
Singing Australia History Of Folk & Country Music by Smith Graeme
$35.95 AUD
Category: Music
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones 33 1/3 by David Smay
$19.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 S.
Two entwined narratives run through the creation of "Swordfishtrombones" and form the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New York in 1979 to change his life. It wasn't working. ...Show more
A New History of Jazz by Alyn Shipton
$36.00 AUD
Category: Music
In this major update of the acclaimed and award-winning jazz history, Alyn Shipton challenges many of the assumptions that surround the birth and growth of jazz music. How was it that it took off all over the United States early in the 20th century, despite the accepted wisdom that everything began in N ...Show more
A New History of Jazz (2nd edition 2006) by Alyn Shipton
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
Aiming to challenge many of the assumptions that surround the birth and growth of jazz music, this book re-evaluates the transition from swing to be-bop, asking just how political this supposed modern jazz revolution actually was. It also includes names as John Medeski, Diana Krall, Django Bates, and Ma ...Show more
TURN THE BEAT AROUND by SHAPIRO PETER
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. Drawing on the music of Sly Stone and Parliament- Funkadelic, and the ethos of pleasure- ...Show more