Books about Music, Artists and Vinyl Records

Description Release details By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio t...

Description Release details One of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record (featuring sto...

Description Release details Two kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the propri...

Description Release details In 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released The Gilded Palace of Sin on A&M Records,selli...

Description Release details In 20 Jazz Funk Greats Drew Daniel (of the experimental band Matmos) creates-through both his o...

Description Release details In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo ...

Description Release details Loveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release - an album so influential and groundbrea...

Description Release details "Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and p...

Description Release details In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a d...

Description Release details Carole King's Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosi...

Description Release details Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept w...

Description Release details New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare: destitute, dirty, and dangerous. As the cou...

Description Release details Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott ...

Description Release details The Pixies have had a career unlike any other in alternative rock, disappearing as not-quite-th...

Description Release details Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutra...

Description Release details Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influence...

Description Release details Issued on America's premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer's contro...

Description Release details The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. An...

Description Release details Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire hi...

Description Release details "I had to leave town for a little while--" with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to ...

Description Release details Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced ...

Description Release details In recent years, Björk's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With ...

Description Release details What could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched ou...

Description Release details When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on...

Description Release details Conceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die, 'For...

Description Release details Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybr...

Description Release details This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of...

Description Release details From the "War on Hippies" to the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a ...

Description Release details The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewa...

Description Release details In the fall of 1980 Richard and Linda Thompson (of Fairport Convention fame) had recently been...

Description Release details Rid of Me joins Music From Big Pink by John Niven and Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice as one of ...

Description Release details He is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happ...

Description Release details Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This huge...

Description Release details 'So honest and pure as to count as a true rapture' JOAN DIDION 'A poetic masterpiece' JOHNNY D...

Description Release details A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most...

Description Release details The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation...

Description Release details Out of print for many years and regarded as one of the greatest music books ever written, My M...

Description Release details A study of a life lived in an environment of wild music and endless wonder, Sonic Life is the ...

Description Release details Published to coincide with Leonard Cohen's exclusive show at London's The O2 on Friday 21 June...

Description Release details The long-awaited Autobiography arrives. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May...

Description Release details In the manner of George Plimpton's ground-breaking oral biographies of Truman Capote and Edie ...

Description Release details The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday "I've been told that n...

Description Release details No one knows more obscure and entertaining facts about music as legendary music journalist Dav...

Description Release details Kurt Cobain burst into American consciousness with a vengeance with the release of Nevermind, ...

Description Release details “A stunning new photo-packed book” –E! News The perfect gorgeous pocket-sized hardcover gift b...

Description Release details The story of AC/DC's legendary front man in his own distinctive voice 'It wasn't me. I didn't ...

Description Release details NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Ozzi’s reporting is strong, balanced and well...

Description Release details Pamela Des Barres was a regular on the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars' backstag...