Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story by Talib Kweli
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Before Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip-hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip-hop more inspiring than their textbooks (much to the chagrin of the educator par ...Show more
Dave Brubeck: a Life in Time by Philip Clark
$26.99 AUD
Category: Music
WINNER OF THE PRESTO JAZZ BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 An articulate, scrupulously researched account based on first-hand information, this book presents Brubeck's contribution to music with the critical insight that it deserves - ***** BBC Music Magazine This is the writing about jazz that we've been waiting ...Show more
Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) - A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. by Jeff Tweedy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
A New York Times Bestseller - A Rolling Stone Best Music Books of 2018 selection - A Pitchfork Pick: Best Music Books of 2018 The singer, guitarist, and songwriter --best known for his work with Wilco-- opens up about his past, his songs, the music, and the people who have inspired him. Few bands have ...Show more
Kim Gordon - No Icon by Kim Gordon; Carrie Brownstein (Foreword by)
$80.00 AUD
Category: Music
An illustrated portrait of the life and work of Kim Gordon, one of the great musical icons of the last forty years and a founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women. Kim Gordon is best known as the bassist, vocalist and founding member of the legendary rock ban ...Show more
John Cage - Variations on Mushrooms: a Mycological Foray by John Cage
$120.00 AUD
Category: Music
John Cage: A Mycological Foray draws readers across the idiosyncratic, mushroom-suffused, innermost landscape of celebrated American composer John Cage. Upon the remarkable journey with Cage, one encounters assorted photographs, compositions and contemplations; all in the very same unexpected fashion on ...Show more
Archie Roach - Tell Me Why - The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who he r ...Show more
Beastie Boys by Spike Jonze
$99.99 AUD
$130.00 (23% off)
Category: Music
The first book of photography to be published by the Academy Award-winning film director and photographer Spike Jonze. Will appeal to every fan of Beastie Boys and golden-era hip hop, as well as photography and Spike Jonze's own focused audiences. Spike Jonze and Beastie Boys met for the first time in L ...Show more
Unusual Sounds - The Hidden History of Library Music by David Hollander; Johan Kugelberg (Editor)
$90.00 AUD
Category: Music
In the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: royalty-free LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required. Unusual Sounds is a deep dive into a musical ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators--along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists--Byrne shows ho ...Show more
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
$19.99 AUD
$39.99 (50% off)
Category: Music
We hit upon the idea of making a movie about the Revolution. A feature film that would be shown in all the movie theaters. The short video about the frozen chicken up the cunt was all well and good, but it wasn't for a mass audience. Art for the masses means Hollywood. Calling people to revolution requi ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between ...Show more
Bob Dylan - Chronicles - Volume One by Bob Dylan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the USA, Bob Dylan.“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.” So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles ...Show more