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by Scott Heim
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2012
The First Time I Heard Joy Division / New Order is Part I in an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band. In this first volume, forty-five different musicians and writers remember their initial experiences hearing the seminal...
Hi-de-ho:The Life of Cab Calloway
The Life of Cab Calloway
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab...
Smash!
Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and more
Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre...
by David Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Tony Wilson was the co-founder of Factory Records and The Hacienda, he kick-started the careers of Joy Division, Happy Mondays, and New Order, he put the Sex Pistols on television for the first time and was the inspiration behind the film 24 Hour Party People. From his unique childhood growing up...
by Murasaki Shikibu, Richard Bowring
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 1996
The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace - the auspicious birth of a prince,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally. While he remains well-known in Russia—where...
by Phillip Crandall
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
"It's Time To Party," the first track off of I Get Wet, opens with a rapid-fire guitar line - nothing fancy, just a couple crunchy power chords to acclimate the ears - repeated twice before a booming bass drum joins in to provide a quarter-note countdown. A faint, swirling effect intensifies...
by Max Salazar
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Shortly after Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, they began moving into an uptown Manhattan neighborhood that would become known as "Spanish Harlem." By 1930, Afro-Cuban music had gained a firm foothold in the city, setting the stage for the mambo, boogaloo, salsa and Latin-jazz...
Nirvana: A Tour Diary
My Life on the Road with One of the Greatest Bands of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Afforded the kind of access a journalist can only dream of, Andy Bollen gives fans a new story focusing on the real Kurt Cobain—not the angst-ridden, troubled rock star of folklore, the kind and humorous Kurt the world seldom saw
When Nirvana first exploded onto the music scene in 1991,...
by Steve Knopper
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The definitive biography of Michael Jackson, a “vivid…gripping...authoritative account of a world-changing force of nature” (Rolling Stone), celebrating the King of Pop’s legendary contributions to music, dance, and popular culture.
From the moment in 1965 when he first stepped on stage—at...
In Their Lives
Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The perfect gift for any Beatles fan, In Their Lives is an anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs.
The Beatles’ influence—on their contemporaries, on our cultural consciousness, and on the music industry ever after—is...
Howling at the Moon
The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2004
Show biz memoir at its name-dropping, bridge-burning, profane best: the music industry’s most outspoken, outrageous, and phenomenally successful executive delivers a rollicking memoir of pop music’s heyday.
During the 1970s and '80s the music business was dominated by a few major labels...
The Fellowship
The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every week in Lewis's Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature,...
by Sylvia Plath
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.
Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete...