Playing with Matches
RAM U.S.A., Publications and Distribution, October 1998. Oversize Softcover. More
RAM U.S.A., Publications and Distribution, October 1998. Oversize Softcover. More
Grand Central Publishing, March 2024. Hardcover. For readers of Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us comes a fiercely feminist, heartwarming story of friendship and music about The Liverbirds, Britain's first all-female rock group. The idea for Britain's first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory..... More
Backbeat, April 2023. Paper Back. In an age of ubiquitous music and countless new songs releasing every minute, the Great American Songbook endures. After all, the Songbook--that sprawling canon of popular songs, standards, and show tunes from roughly the 1920s through the 1950s--is a foundational text of American pop music..... More
Melville House, March 2024. Paper Back. Throwing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh meditates on the future of her craft in this wry, existential and passionate addition to Melville House's new series, FUTURES. Over a long, hot Christmas in Australia, Throwing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo..... More
Hachette Books, November 2023. Paper Back. **Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** ?**Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely..... More
Soft Skull, October 2023. Paper Back. A canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by generations of Black punks--featuring both new voices and those from the not-so-recent past Black Punk Now is an anthology of contemporary nonfiction, fiction, illustrations, and comics that collectively..... 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
Diversion Books, February 2024. Hardcover. The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking Crew to redefining rock on the Seventies' biggest hits and outrageous tours, and ultimately to the most shocking crime in rock history--a story of musical genius, uncontrollable madness, and..... More
Fireside, January 1979. Oversize Softcover. More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history. With his horn-rimmed glasses, goatee, jive talk, and upraised trumpet bell, he was the hipster who most personified bebop. The musical heir to Louis Armstrong, he created..... More
Canongate Us, April 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Elvis Costello is undoubtedly one of the most important and challenging musicians of the last thirty years. "Complicated Shadows paints a detailed portrait of an intensely private, complex, and creatively restless individual. It draws on a wealth of new research, including exclusive interviews..... More
Penguin Books, March 2024. Paper Back. "In this authoritative, unsparing history of the biggest rock group of the 1970s, Spitz delivers inside details and analysis with his well-known gift for storytelling." --PEOPLE From the author of the iconic, bestselling history of The Beatles, the definitive account of arguable the greatest..... More
University of California Press, October 2018. Trade Paperback. Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924-1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II, he is renowned for both his compositions..... More
Penguin Adult HC/TR, May 1955. Trade Paperback. As is . Binding is tight, and all text clear, but there is heavy foxing on the edges of the print block and the cover. More
Da Capo Press, November 2000. Trade Paperback. "Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist."--New York Times Book Review Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2005. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan."I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2004. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction--a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time. Written in 1966, Tarantula is..... More
Intellect Ltd, December 2023. Paper Back. Drawing on archives and live performances, this book traces the impressions and reverberations of UK punk band Throbbing Gristle. This book looks at late 1970s Britain, before, during, and immediately after the Winter of Discontent, to situate the activism of Throbbing Gristle in this..... More
Knopf, February 2024. Hardcover. A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon "A book written as only one artist could view another, with insight and sincere compassion." --Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of Woman Without Shame In the first biography of Billie Holiday in..... More
Hachette Books, September 2023. Hardcover. The co-founder of The Cure and author of Cured delivers a fascinating deep dive into the dark romanticism of Goth music, a misunderstood genre and culture. GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir, and a journey through Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants..... More
Wesleyan University Press, July 1999. Trade Paperback. A lively comparison of musical meaning in Ohio's Jazz, metal, and hard rock scene.This vivid ethnography of the musical lives of heavy metal, rock, and jazz musicians in Cleveland and Akron, Ohio shows how musicians engage with the world of sound to forge..... More
Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 2021. Paper Back. In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed..... More
Univ Of Minnesota Press, November 2023. Trade Paperback. How the creative use of pop music in film--think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now--has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s Quick: What movie do you think of when you hear "The Sounds of Silence"? Better yet, what song comes..... More
Rutgers University Press, October 2023. Hardcover. Born four months apart, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel both released their debut albums in the early 1970s, quickly becoming two of the most successful rock stars of their generation. While their critical receptions have been very different, surprising parallels emerge when we look..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2023. Paper Back. The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie "A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind..... More