Genres & Styles - Rock
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I Don’t Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
$32.00 Add to cart“Reading Nick Corasaniti’s delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories.”—Rolling Stone,
- Author: Corasaniti, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0062950789
- Language: English
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Weighted Down: The Complicated Life of Skip Spence
$36.99 Add to cartWeighted Down is the first biography of the legendary ’60s cult musician Skip Spence.
As a member of era-defining bands Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane, Spence played
- Author: Cobb, Cam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 191317218X
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn
$23.33 Add to cartIn November 2020, Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Dave Gahan, accepting the honour, said: “I’d like to thank Anton Corbijn who thank God came in at the right time and
- Author: Golden, Reuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 02 2024
- ISBN10: 3836597993
- Language: English
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There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
$32.00 Add to cartA thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.–a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America
On June 4, 1984, Columbia- Author: Hyden, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0306832062
- Language: English
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God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth
$20.00 Add to cart‘For thirty years, I’ve trusted David Leaf with my music and my story’ Brian Wilson
Originally published in 1978, this groundbreaking study was both the first full-length book on the band and the first
- Series: Omnibus Remastered #5
- Author: Leaf, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1915841410
- Language: English
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I Don’t Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
$19.99 Add to cart“Reading Nick Corasaniti’s delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories.”—Rolling Stone,
- Author: Corasaniti, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0062950797
- Language: English
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The Hacienda
$19.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of England’s most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of J
- Author: Hook, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062307959
- Language: English
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Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
$24.00 Add to cartThat the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, root… [more below]
- Author: Gould, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0307353389
- Language: English
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Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King
$30.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley’s music finally receive recognition and praise.
After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics- Author: Lauterbach, Preston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0306833085
- Language: English
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Now You’re One of Us: The Incredible Story of Redd Kross
$29.00 Add to cartNow You’re One of Us is the definitive statement about Redd Kross, an in-depth and riveting tale told in the voices of the talented and tempestuous brothers at the core of this iconic outfit.
Emerging
- Author: McDonald, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1915841054
- Language: English
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Trout Mask Replica
$14.95 Read moreIn the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band’s Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and
- Series: 33 1/3 #44
- Author: Courrier, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427812
- Language: English
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Elvis Presley: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartA vibrant, sympathetic portrait of the once and future king of rock ‘n’ roll by the award-winning author of Shiloh and In Country
To this clear-eyed portrait of the first rock ‘n’ roll superstar, Bob- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038893
- Language: English
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All Gates Open
$22.95 Read moreAll Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, Rob Young gives u… [more below]
- Series: Faber Social
- Author: Young, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0571311520
- Language: English
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Smiths’ Meat Is Murder
$14.95 Read moreA Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison),
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Pernice, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 082641494X
- Language: English
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Neil Young’s Harvest
$14.95 Read moreNeil Young’s Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, de
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Inglis, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 127
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414958
- Language: English
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Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA
$14.95 Read moreWhen Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, “one, two, one, two, three, four,” followed by the droning synth chords of “Born in the U.S.A.” Max Weinberg
- Series: 33 1/3 #27
- Author: Himes, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416616
- Language: English
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Rolling Stones’ Some Girls
$14.95 Add to cartIt’s October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They’re under siege. Keith Richards’s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band’s future, and t
- Series: 33 1/3 #81
- Author: Patell, Cyrus R. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441192808
- Language: English
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Pretty Hate Machine
$14.95 Add to cartWhat is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band’s 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine.
The alb- Series: 33 1/3 #78
- Author: Carr, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0826427898
- Language: English
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Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock–from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent–and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a gen
- Author: Deville, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1250363381
- Language: English
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Dressed in Black: The Shangri-Las and Their Recorded Legacy
$24.95 Add to cartThe first full-length history of the Shangri-Las, one of the most significant–and most misunderstood–pop groups of the 1960s.
Sisters Mary and Betty Weiss, together with twins Mary Ann and Marguerite
- Author: Mackinney, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1959163078
- Language: English
