Rock category: 3054 books
Early '70s Radio
The American Format Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Early '70s Radio focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats," which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. This formatting revolution took place in a period rife with heated politics, identity anxiety, large-scale disappointments and seemingly...
When We Get to Surf City
A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
In a dazzling and exhilarating display of narrative on-the-road reporting, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene takes readers on an unforgettable American journey of music, memories, and universal longing.
Running away to join the circus is a dream we're...
by Ben Sisario
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
The Pixies have had a career unlike any other in alternative rock, disappearing as not-quite-the-next-big-things only to become gods in absentia. Doolittle is their knotty masterpiece, the embodiment of the Pixies' abrasive, exuberant, enigmatic pop. Informed by exclusive interviews with the band,...
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
When he first started working on Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson said that he was going to write "the greatest rock album ever made." That album, released in 1966, fifty years ago, changed the face of popular music.From conception and composition to arrangement and production, Pet Sounds was the...
by Dr. Philip Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. While Horses pays homage to the record's origins in the nascent...
by Erik Morse
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Spacemen 3 are the greatest rock band of which you've never heard. This briefly surveys the backgrounds of songwriters Pete 'Sonic Boom' Kember and Jason 'Spacemen' Pierce during their childhood years and adolescent collaborations, from which would forge cult-icons Spacemen 3. It recounts the highs...
by Brian Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Reelin’ in the Years tell the remarkable story of the American jazz rock band who have sold over 50 million albums during a career lasting over 20 years: Steely Dan.
Updated and revised for 2018.
Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a couple of cynical New York jazz fans wormed their way...
Streets of Fire
Bruce Springsteen in Photographs and Lyrics 1977-1979
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
“On a day like this, I remember—I’m the President, but he’s The Boss.”
—President Barack Obama, 2009 Kennedy Center Awards ceremony
Compiled by accomplished photographer Eric Meola—who knew “the Boss” when he was just an unknown Jersey kid with big rock and roll dreams—Streets...
Run Like an Antelope
On the Road with Phish
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
One journalist's wild summer on the road with the world's most popular cult rock band, Phish.
Despite their enormous success and their status as America's biggest cult rock and roll band, Phish remains an enigma. Each of their albums has sold more than 500,000 copies, and their concerts sell...
Love Rock Revolution
K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Punk isn't a sound--it's an idea! In its history, K Records has fostered some of independent music's greatest artists, including Bikini Kill, Beat Happening, Built to Spill, Beck, Modest Mouse, and the Gossip. In 1982, K Records released its first cassette and put its own spin on punk's defiant manifesto:...
by Johnny Rogan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance is among the most successful and controversial rock biographies ever published. Having denounced the book and called for the death of its author Johnny Rogan, Morrissey later did a U-turn and cited it as evidence in the royalty-related court case brought...
Morrissey
The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subversive endorsement of...
Resonances
Noise and Contemporary Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage...
Beyond and Before
Progressive Rock since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
A brilliant new survey and intelligent exploration of progressive rock, from its origins through to contemporary artists. Nicely illustrated, it includes rare photos of artists like Kate Bush and Genesis.