Dutton, November 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. The singer, guitarist, and songwriter--best known for his work with Wilco--opens up about his past, his songs, the music, and the people who have inspired him in this personal memoir. This ideal addition to your Wilco collection also makes a perfect gift for music..... More
Dover Publications, May 2013. Oversize Softcover. The dramatic overture had its beginnings in Renaissance court entertainments, which often began with a flourish of trumpets. It reached a high point of inspiration in the overtures that George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composed for his operas and oratorios. This volume presents 60 Handel..... More
Faber & Faber, September 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Set adrift by his wife's suicide and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. To his son, waiting patiently in the car..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Named a Fall Read by Vogue, Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME, Vanity Fair and O, the Oprah Magazine. One of Daily Mail and Financial Times's Best Books of 2018. "There are very, very few people who..... More
Knopf, May 2023. Hardcover. An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art. Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists (along..... More
Knopf, May 2023. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time--intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more. The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1997. Trade Paperback. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as "Take the 'A' Train." Yet all..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Two Dollar Radio, November 2022. Hardcover. * 2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" --TODAY (Elizabeth Acevedo) * A "Best Book of 2017" --Rolling Stone (2018), NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books..... More
Anthology Editions, September 2022. Hardcover. "A breathtakingly impressive work, After All is Said and Done represents the kind of creative fanaticism that could only come from a Deadhead." - Good Times, 2022 If any one musical act of the rock and roll era can be said to have transcended the..... More
Random House, October 2019. Hardcover. The two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville traces her life and career in a genre-bending memoir in stories about the pivotal moments that haunt her. "Honest, original and absolutely remarkable."--NPR (Best Books of the Year) When Liz Phair shook things up..... More
Da Capo Press, October 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 Schemel Patty Schemel's story begins with a childhood surrounded by..... More
The MIT Press, September 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. The first book to explore the extraordinary career of musician and performance artist Charlotte Moorman, whose work combined classical rigor, avant-garde experiment, and madcap daring. The Juilliard-trained cellist Charlotte Moorman sat nude behind a cello of carved ice, performed while dangling from..... More
Da Capo Press, 1979. First Thus. Paper Back. First Da Capo paperback edition. Heavy shelf wear. Vertical crease down center of spine. [394 pages]. More
Bloomsbury Academic, March 2023. Paper Back. ESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs. The band's signature guitar sound from iconic single 'UFO' has been sampled in hundreds of hip hop records, and..... More
Bloomsbury Academic, April 2022. Paper Back. We all know the Boxer. The fighter who remembers every glove but still remains. That grisly, bruised American allegory who somehow gets up more times than he's knocked down. This is the fight that nearly broke The National. The one that allowed them to..... More
Faber & Faber, May 2023. Paper Back. The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition. At the end of 1994, musician, producer and artist Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go..... More
Lawrence Hill Books, August 2009. Trade Paperback. For fifty years The Jazz Book has been the most encyclopedic interpretive history of jazz available in one volume. In this new seventh edition, each chapter has been completely revised and expanded to incorporate the dominant styles and musicians since the book's last..... More
Bloomsbury Academic, March 2023. Paper Back. This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to hip-hop. Written from the alternating..... More
Bloomsbury Academic, June 2022. Paper Back. Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997. Spirits violently swam up around her house, looming at the windows, beckoning her to join them. Her and her acoustic guitar warded..... More
Plexus Publishing (UK), October 2005. Paper Back. No one embodied the Sex Pistols raw, anarchic excesses like bassist Sid Vicious. Told from an insider's perspective, Sid Vicious: Rock 'n' Roll Star covers the brief life of punk's original poster boy including everything from Vicious's lowly beginning as the only child..... More
Ecco, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century.... In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgeable perspective." -Patti Smith An insider's take on the evolution and..... More
Pocket, March 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. Moderate cover wear. More
Taschen32, January 2014. Oversized Hardcover. 2016 Edition; Solid binding; Gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards w/ some edge-wear present including one corner repaired with clear tape; Pages free of markings; A solid copy, despite cosmetic flaws. More
Codex Books, January 2001. Paper Back. After splitting up with British punk band the UK Subs, Alvin Gibbs received a call from his old friend, Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy, "How would you like to be on a world tour, playing bass for Iggy Pop?" What seemed like any rock..... More
