
Beastie Boys Book
Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for...
View full detailsFormed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for...
View full detailsFrom Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this is the book that explores the links between hip-hop and rock. Reynolds has focused...
View full detailsIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd nev...
View full detailsNo other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as John Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has writte...
View full detailsEschewing the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence, the Copendium - a collection of album reviews and themed track samplers - ...
View full detailsIn this groundbreaking survey of more than a century of music-making in the British Isles, Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been han...
View full detailsJon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the lat...
View full detailsGrunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the unexpected success of Nirva...
View full detailsIn Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about he...
View full detailsSpanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's...
View full detailsLegendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a fir...
View full detailsIn this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a...
View full detailsAs the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of ...
View full detailsIn The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, ...
View full detailsMadrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive ...
View full detailsThrough a series of exquisitely observed autobiographical sketches, Adrian Tomine explores his life - from an early moment on the playground being ...
View full detailsOver the course of two albums and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation. T...
View full detailsViv Albertine has always been obsessed with the truth: the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. But at what cost? I...
View full detailsDisco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trouser...
View full detailsA century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollyw...
View full detailsRapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion wh...
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