Silence: Lectures and Writings
The MIT Press, August 1966. Paper Back. More
Music
How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger
Villard, March 2008. Paper Back. How Can I Keep from Singing? is the compelling story of how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete Seeger himself, this is an inside..... More
Lee Scratch Perry: Black Ark
Patrick Frey Edition, May 2026. Hardcover. A massive photographic archive of Lee "Scratch" Perry's legendary recording studio A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer..... More
Lee Scratch Perry: Black Ark
Patrick Frey Edition, May 2026. Hardcover. A massive photographic archive of Lee "Scratch" Perry's legendary recording studio A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer..... More
Woody Guthrie's Wardy Forty
Self Publisher, November 2013. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. First printing; Sound binding, ever-so-gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
The Dead Book: A Social History of The Grateful Dead
Links, 1973. First Edition. Soft Cover. First printing; Sound binding; Moderate wear to covers and spine w/ some creasing/chipping present; Pages free of markings; A Good copy overall. More
Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter
Da Capo, June 2026. Paper Back. The legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s--a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of "the scene" in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia. "Strange..... More
Bicycle Diaries
Viking Adult, September 2009. Cloth. A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-the-handlebars view of the world s cities Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and..... More
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
Auwa, September 2025. Paper Back. "Greg Tate was my first, and in some ways truest, North Star . . . Greg was the first person who validated the art that I loved and made it intellectually viable." --Questlove, from the foreword "The velocity and volume of his exuberance, his demands..... More
Southern Music: Exploring the Karnatik Tradition
HarperCollins, December 2013. Hardcover. One of the foremost Karnatik vocalists today, T. M. Krishna writes lucidly and passionately about the form, its history, its problems and where it stands today T. M. Krishna begins his sweeping exploration of the tradition of Karnatik music with a fundamental question: what is music..... More
Just Kids
Ecco, November 2010. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Reading rocker Smith's account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it's hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding." -- People It..... More
The Show That Never Ends
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2017. Hardcover. The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Emerson Lake & Palmer, along with such successors as..... More
The Three Dimensions of Freedom (Faber Social)
Faber & Faber Social, August 2019. Paper Back. Musician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets from Faber. We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined..... More
Tristan Chord : Wagner and Philosophy
Henry Holt & Co, October 2002. Trade Paperback. Richard Wagner's devotees have ranged from the subtlest minds (Proust) to the most brutal (Hitler). The enduring fascination with his works arises not only from his singular fusion of musical innovation and theatrical daring, but also from his largely overlooked engagement with..... More
Love: Every Album, Every Song
Sonicbond Publishing, April 2026. Paper Back. As Love's most revered album is titled Forever Changes, it's little wonder that their superior back catalogue encompasses a multitude of genres: folk rock, garage, jazz rock, baroque, psychedelia, soul, funk, and reggae - or certainly Arthur Lee's does. But who can separate Love..... More
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
Knopf, November 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and..... More
A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary
Faber & Faber, May 2023. Paper Back. **Order WHAT ART DOES, the new book from Brian Eno and Bette A now** The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful paperback edition. At the end of 1994, musician..... More
Mr. Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of the Beatles
Da Capo, June 2026. Hardcover. "Captivating . . . . tells a great story . . . . a rip-roaring yet empathic rock history."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) The definitive, comprehensive biography of Brian Epstein--the man who built the Beatles--by eminent Beatles biographer Philip Norman There will never be another pop..... More
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Penguin Books, October 2022. Paper Back. One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 - Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year "One of the best books of its kind in decades." --The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire..... More
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
Da Capo, March 2026. First Edition. Hardcover. The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music that would follow. Alice Coltrane..... More
Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream
Liveright Publishing Corporation, February 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Jon Savage, the author of the canonical England's Dreaming, explodes new ground in this electrifying history of pop music from 1955 through 1979. In demonstrating that gay and lesbian artists were responsible for many of the greatest cultural breakthroughs in the last..... More
Deep Blues
Penguin Group USA Inc, 1982. Trade Paperback. A detailed history of the musical and social impact of the blues, the bedrock of rock and roll "A lucid . . . entrancing study."--Greil Marcus "Palmer has a powerful understanding of the music and an intense involvement in the culture."--The Nation In..... More
Life
Back Bay Books, May 2011. Trade Paperback. The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man..... More
No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene
Beacon Press, March 2026. Hardcover. Named one of the most anticipated nonfiction books of 2026 by the New York Times "I loved this book.... A revelatory perspective on a formidable artistic movement whose history has been left to a handful of (male) gatekeepers."--Tanya Pearson, author of Pretend We're Dead "A..... More
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
Simon & Schuster, September 2017. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "As wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself. " --Complex "A cautionary tale that ends in triumph." --GQ "A revelation and a welcome addition to hip-hop's literary legacy." --All Hip Hop The highly anticipated memoir from Gucci Mane, "one..... More
