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Ed Sheeran
A+ The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Ed Sheeran is the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter with a tiny guitar and huge talent! From Sheeran's bohemian childhood to international stardom, read exclusive interviews with friends, relatives, musical collaborators, and key figures in his rise to success. The Grammy-nominated singer has toured...
by Chris Welch
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Genesis, one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1980s. An album by album, track by track rundown of the music of Genesis, including special sections detailing the work of members Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Steve...
Metal on Ice
Tales from Canada's Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy metal, which grew out of the hard rock of the 1970s, exploded commercially in the 1980s, and then petered out in the 1990s as grunge took over, only to rise to prominence once again in the new millennium.
The road to...
What Are You Doing Here?
A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
In her nuanced, extremely perceptive book, Laina Dawes champions the liberating possibilities of metal while questioning the color-blindness of the metal world, celebrating the role of black women in creating rock music, examining the reaction of the black community to black punks and metalheads, and...
The Dears
Lost in the Plot
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Over a decade after the release of their first album, The Dears have weathered the indie fringes, the collapse of the music industry as we knew it and the near implosion of the band itself, with their creative vision and gang dynamic intact. The Dears: Lost in the Plot looks at how The Dears survived...
Barenaked Ladies
Public Stunts, Private Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
From geeks in short pants to multiplatinum artists, Barenaked Ladies are nothing less than a phenomenon. Now, for the first time in the United States, we can read their astonishing story.
Steven, Ed, Jim, Tyler, and Kevin have two Grammy nominations under their belts, they've appeared on The Tonight...
Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Despite releasing records only on independent labels and receiving virtually no radio play, Dead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their sound was inventive and tetchy, and front man Jello Biafra’s lyrics were incisive and...
Punk Avenue
Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Finalist, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword Reviews
Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding...
Lighters in the Sky
The All-Time Greatest Concerts, 1960-2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
"**Passionate, personal, and articulated from the lens of a masterful historian with a sharp interest in the topic.** . . . A book that feels immersive without being stuffy, authoritative without being dismissive, and historical without being boring. It takes a rare writer to cover acts as disparate...
My Damage
The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Hardcore punk memoir by Keith Morris, ultimate punk rock frontman and founder of Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and OFF!
Keith Morris is a true punk icon. Over the course of his forty-year career with Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and OFF!, he's battled diabetes, drug and alcohol addiction,...
Sound of the Beast
The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
The definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, and more.
More than 30 years after Black Sabbath released the first complete...
by Steven Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Everyone was trying to fight everybody else, cause everyone didnt want to own up to themselves and say, its over. - Ozzy Osbourne.This unique book draws on the first-hand accounts from band members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio, Glenn Hughes and of course, Ozzy Osbourne himself backed...
My Riot
Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
“Miret’s captivating and harrowing, no-holds-barred account of a life lived in the trenches . . . You don’t have to be a major Agnostic Front fan to get maximum enjoyment out of this book. . . . A compelling read.” ―Classic Rock Revisited
"Miret’s memorable, affecting stories...
The Complete History of Black Sabbath
What Evil Lurks
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
They are the band that created metal music . . . and they have defined it for more than four decades. Black Sabbath's career spans eleven different line-ups and nineteen studio albums in addition to the twenty-eight solo albums of the original four members. The band began in 1968 as a blues rock band...