Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
I'm Your Fan: the Songs of Leonard Cohen (33 1/3) by Ray Padgett
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John ...Show more
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
The Last Holiday : A Memoir by GIL. SCOTT-HERON
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Canons
Raised by his grandmother in Tennessee, Gil Scott-Heron's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one. In this, his heartfelt, beautifully written and posthumously published memoir, we are given bright insigh ...Show more
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp - An Autobiography by Richard Hell
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Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll...From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. His father died when he was se ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators--along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists--Byrne shows ho ...Show more
Tao of Wu by RZA
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
From the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan--celebrating their 25th anniversary this year--an inspirational book for the hip hop fan. The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he's learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A devout student of know ...Show more
Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks 33 1/3 by Clare Nina Norelli
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-loving FBI agent's investigation into the murder of a small town teen queen, Twin Peaks brought the aesth ...Show more
DJ Shadow Entroducing by Eliot Wilder
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
What resonated about "Endtroducing" when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted territory that seems to exist both in and out of time. Josh Davis is not only a master sampler and ...Show more
Swooning: A Classical Music Guide to Life, Love, Lust and Other Follies by Christopher Lawrence
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music
The history of classical music is littered with murder, sado-masochism, adultery, bigamy, fraud, riches, poverty, nervous breakdowns, bizarre habits, gluttony and terrible, terrible toilet humour (Mozart was the prime exponent of the latter). Classical music - nice? Not at all. It's the most immediate e ...Show more
Looking To Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing by Peter Guralnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed the full sweep of blues, gospel, country, an ...Show more
The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond by Karl Bartos
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Newly published in paperback, in The Sound of the Machine, Bartos speaks candidly and with wit and humour about his life in Kraftwerk, a band widely acknowledged as being one of the most important in modern music. A Rough Trade Book of the Year 2022 Some of the most beautiful, era-defining music has bee ...Show more