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  • Lamestains

    Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser

    by Nicholas Attfield ...
    This book is a critical history of Sub Pop, the Seattle independent rock label that launched the careers of countless influential ‘grunge’ bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses in particular on the languages and personas of the ‘loser’, a term that encompassed the label’s founders and personnel, its flagship bands (including Mudhoney, TAD and Nirvana) and the avid vinyl-collecting ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear

    by Nicholas Attfield, Ben Winters ...
    In his 1985 book The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and Others, Peter Franklin set out a challenge for musicology: namely, how best to talk and write about the music of modern European culture that fell outside of the modernist mainstream typified by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern? Thirty years on, this collected volume of essays by Franklin’s students and colleagues returns to that challenge and the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Bowie

    A Biography

    by Marc Spitz ...
    An expansive biography of David Bowie, one of the twentieth century’s greatest music and cultural icons.From noted author and rock ’n’ roll journalist Marc Spitz comes a major David Bowie biography to rival any other. Following Bowie’s life from his start as David Jones, an R & B—loving kid from Bromley, England, to his rise to rock ’n’ roll aristocracy as David Bowie, Bowie recounts his career ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Contents Under Pressure

    30 Years of Rush at Home and Away

    by Martin Popoff ...
    Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home & Away is a detailed history of the exhaustive road experience of Canadian rock icons Rush. Celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary, By-Tour features in-depth original interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. Together, history’s loudest Order of Canada recipients conjure the sights and sounds of their strange journey: one that began ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bon Jovi - Uncensored On the Record

    by Jeff Maitland ...
    This is the uncensored independent guide to the music of Bon Jovi. Jeff Maitlands authoritative text traces the Bon Jovi story from their New Jersey roots through to the stadium rock phenomenon that we know today. This eBook also includes a complete track-by-track analysis of Bon Jovis back catalogue. This is the essential companion for every Bon Jovi fan on the planet. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Fargo Rock City

    A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    The 25th anniversary edition of Chuck Klosterman’s debut, a hilarious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakota (population: 498), empirically proving that no matter where you are, kids wanna rock—now with a new introduction from the author.With a voice like Ace Frehley’s guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Strange Fascination

    David Bowie: The Definitive Story

    by David Buckley ...
    David Buckley's unique approach to unravelling the Bowie enigma, via interviews with many of the singer's closest associates, biography and academic analysis, makes this unrivalled biography a classic for Bowie fans old and new. This revised edition of Strange Fascination comes at a time when Bowie is, once again, on a creative roll, and captures exclusive details about the tours, the making of ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • Twilight of the Gods

    A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

    by Steven Hyden ...
    National Bestseller * Named one of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2018 * One of Newsweek's 50 Best Books of 2018 * A Billboard Best of 2018 * A New York Times Book Review "New and Noteworthy" selectionThe author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening exploration of the state of classic rock, its past a... ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Dave Grohl Story

    by Jeff Apter ...
    Teenage punk self-taught musician bandleader session man smoker drinker multi-millionaire David Grohl has achieved a rare feat a rock n roll double crown having been a member of two hugely successful and influential bands Nirvana and The Foo Fighters. Loaded with candid interviews and hard truths about Grohls life in music this is the first comprehensive biography of an icon whose career charts ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • A History of Heavy Metal

    by Andrew O'Neill ...
    'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman'One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read . . . loud and thoroughly engrossing' - Alan Moore'A man on a righteous mission to persuade people to "lay down your souls to the gods rock and roll".' - The Sunday Times'As funny and preposterous as this mighty music deserve' - John HiggsThe history of heavy metal brings br... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Limelight: Rush in the ’80s

    by Martin Popoff ...
    Series Book 2 - Rush Across the Decades
    Part two of the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North — covering Rush’s most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power WindowsIncludes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the band on tour and in the studioIn the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the ’70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Sold the World

    David Bowie and the 1970s

    by Peter Doggett ...
    The Man Who Sold the World is a critical study of David Bowie's most inventive and influential decade, from his first hit, "Space Oddity," in 1969, to the release of the LP Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) in 1980. Viewing the artist through the lens of his music and his many guises, the acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett offers a detailed analysis—musical, lyrical, conceptual, social—of every ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus