Pop Rock category: 3054 books
Feeding Back
Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Feeding Back: Conversations with Rock’s Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock offers a counter-history of rock music through the lens of interviews with musicians including Richard Thompson, J Mascis, James Williamson, Bob Mould, Tom Verlaine, Lydia Lunch, Lee Ranaldo, Johnny Marr,...
by RD Francis
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
IN 1974, Capitol Records issued an unremarkable hard-rock album. Receiving a low-key release and promoted through an underground marketing campaign, the album received limited—sometimes scoffing, sometime favorable—press attention for its eerie similarities to a famed rock ‘n’ roll icon who...
by Mary Celeste Kearney
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
The first book of its kind, Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, lyrics, imagery, performances, instruments, and business practices. Additionally, it explores how rock culture, despite a history of regressive gender politics,...
by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Archives is a series collecting vintage artist interviews and record reviews from the archives of award-winning rock critic and music historian Rev. Keith A. Gordon.
Volume Two of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Archives features interviews with eleven punk-rock trailblazers. Among...
by David Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The blanket term 'rock' is used to describe a musical genre that covers over six decades of musical diversity. The question for this book is, "What does rock mean to harmonica players?" This book is for harmonica players who have a basic grasp of the instrument and are looking to study the...
by Corey Christiansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This book contains a number of songs and solos that are authentic rock n' roll but are not overly advanced. The play-along audio will help players hear the stylistic elements and concepts played by rock guitarists today. Presented in standard notation, tab, and chord diagrams, this is a must have...
Rock Critic Law
101 Unbreakable Rules for Writing Badly About Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Straight out of his beloved Twitter feed @RockCriticLaw, acclaimed rock journalist and author of the classic books Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana and Our Band Could Be Your Life, Michael Azerrad turns his trenchant eye to the art of rock writing itself, hilariously skewering 101 of the genre’s...
Living Like a Runaway
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
“Heavy metal’s leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes, and the highs and lows of her trailblazing career
Wielding her signature black guitar, Lita Ford shredded stereotypes of female musicians throughout...
by Gene Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
You wanted the truth, you got the truth—the hottest book in the world!
Fueled by an explosive mix of makeup, costumes, and attitude, KISS burst onto the music scene thirty years ago and has become a rock institution. The band has sold more than eighty million records, has broken every concert...
Runnin' with the Devil
A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music.
Van Halen’s rise in the 1980s was one of the most thrilling the music world...
Man on the Run
Paul McCartney in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
An illuminating look at the most tumultuous decade in the life of a rock icon—the only McCartney biography in decades based on firsthand interviews with the ex-Beatle himself.
As the 1970s began, the Beatles ended, leaving Paul McCartney to face the new decade with only his wife Linda by...
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’s legendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame to the tragic plane crash that killed the founder and the band’s rise again from the ashes.
In...
So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star
How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
A hilarious inside look at the real business of popular music by the drummer of Semisonic that does for rock and roll what Jim Bouton's Ball Four did for baseball.
After years of working day jobs and making music in his basement, Jacob Slichter wondered if his dreams of rock stardom were a...
Let's Go!
Benjamin Orr and The Cars
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
“When Ben got out of the hospital he said, ‘When I fall down and can’t pick myself up we’ll know it’s over. Until then, we rock!’” – Jeff Carlisi
Benjamin Orr was the co-founder, co-lead singer, and bassist for the platinum-selling rock band The Cars. Often considered the band’s...