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by Daniel Ichbiah
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Téléphone est demeuré le groupe de rock français de référence, continuellement diffusé sur les radios.
En décembre 2015, à l’annonce d’une tournée 2016 des Insus (les 3 garçons de Téléphone), 200 000 places ont été écoulées en quelques heures, marquant un record et témoignant...
After the Ball
Pop Music from Rag to Rock
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
First published in 1972, Ian Whitcomb's After the Ball is an exuberant account of the origins and explosion of popular music, informed by the author's store of experience in the field as a pop sensation of The Sixties.'Brash, learned, funny and perspicacious.... The author of this free-wheeling,...
Experiencing the Beatles
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Starting an undeniable revolution, the Beatles took pop culture by storm, shook up the recording industry, and provided a soundtrack for the lives of millions of American teenagers. No band would ever come close to the mania inspired by these four Liverpudlian exports.
Brooke Halpin takes readers...
Counting Down the Beatles
Their 100 Finest Songs
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Beatles loom large over the musical landscape even now that nearly a half-century has passed since the four men from Liverpool played their last notes together. While the story of their stunning rise and brief but brilliant time together on top of the pop music world is undoubtedly fascinating,...
This Is Spinal Tap
Music on Film Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In 1984, four comedians – Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, and Harry Shearer – unleashed This Is Spinal Tap, the world's first “mock-rockumentary” and a joke that has lasted into the 21st century and inspired a generation of imitations. Now, award-winning film journalist John...
by Mark Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
**We were all equal, but sometimes the band could be led by whoever shouted the loudest.**�
Step inside one of Australia's most beloved and hard-working bands.
For eighteen years, Mark Seymour fronted Hunters and Collectors - although he was never remotely in control of it. Together they released...
Counting Down the Rolling Stones
Their 100 Finest Songs
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
No band has ever been able to demonstrate the enduring power of rock and roll quite like the Rolling Stones, who continue to enthrall, provoke, and invigorate their legions of fans more than fifty years since they began. In Counting Down the Rolling Stones: Their 100 Finest Songs, rock writer Jim...
Woodstock 1969
The Lasting Impact of the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
As the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock festival nears, Woodstock 1969 stands out for its singular voice. Photojournalist Jason Lauré followed his unerring instinct for being in the right place at the crucial moment. He and coauthor Ettagale Blauer trace the historic events that preceded the...
Of Grunge and Government
Let's Fix This Broken Democracy!
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The Nirvana bassist “offers specific platforms for electoral reform . . . as well as charming anecdotes about rock ‘n’ roll as a pursuit of happiness” (Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review).
A memoir of both music and politics, Of Grunge and Government tells Krist Novoselic’s...
Experiencing Led Zeppelin
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listener’s Companion, musician and writer Gregg Akkerman looks behind the curtain of “rock gods” sensationalism at this performing acts musical legacy through their studio and live recordings. Drawing on his many years as a rock musician and music scholar, Akkerman...
Still Competition
The Listener's Guide to Cheap Trick
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Following the success of his 2016 book Razama-Snaz! The Listener’s Guide to Nazareth, Robert Lawson returns with this meticulous reviewing of every Cheap Trick album, song by song. In his book, Still Competition: The Listener’s Guide to Cheap Trick, Lawson outlines the band’s significant television...
Tramps Like Us
Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
As rock critics have noted in the past, Bruce Springsteen's songs exist in a world of their own--they have their own settings, characters, words, and images. It is a world that even those who know only a handful of Springsteen's lyrics can instantly recognize, a world of highways and factories, loners...
by Chandra Jayne
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
A music review of Ronnie Mayor’s debut CD “A Singersong A Rotator,” unforgettable and haunting, an offering of soulful love songs from Britain's best.Born in Liverpool, UK’s Ronnie Mayor is among the greatest talents of present day singer songwriters. A mature singer and songwriter,...
Highway 61 Revisited
The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, & Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
What do Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Cassandra Wilson, and Ani DiFranco have in common? In Highway 61 Revisited, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro says the answer is jazz--not just the musical style, but jazz's distinctive ambiance and attitudes. As legendary...