Essays
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Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time–intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen,… [more below]
- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0375702318
- Language: English
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Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
$17.95 Add to cartA masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.
Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle ?poque Paris. Known for his unvarying im- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Penman, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902533
- Language: English
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Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O’Connor Means to Us
$28.99 Add to cartAn intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sin?ad O’Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sin?ad Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour… [more below]
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1668078333
- Language: English
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Quantum Listening
$9.99 Read more- Series: Portals
- Author: Oliveros, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1739371755
- Language: English
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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
$27.95 Add to cartA memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.
When Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as “dad rock,” Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted t
- Series: American Music
- Author: Stratis, Niko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1477331484
- Language: English
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Nights at the Red Steinway: Adventures in Jazz Piano, from the Wall Street Journal and Elsewhere
$34.95 Read moreThrough curated essays, readers will experience a deeply personal and engaging survey of key figures in jazz in the book that Publishers Weekly calls “a cheerful celebration of an uniquely American mu
- Author: Friedwald, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084127
- Language: English
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We Found Love, Song by Song: The Stories Behind 100 Romantic Hits
$26.00 Read moreLove songs are for everybody and so is this book. In We Found Love, Song by Song, award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski delivers a beautifully illustrated keepsake that tells the fas… [more below]
- Author: Zaleski, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0762487003
- Language: English
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In Defense of Ska: Expanded 2nd Edition
$24.95 Add to cartOne of Pitchfork’s 11 Best Music Books of 2021
Recommended book in Rolling Stones June 2021 Issue
With an additional 30,000 words of compelling stories, research, and analysis, music journalist and In
- Author: Carnes, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1955904715
- Language: English
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Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing
$18.99 Read moreBy the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guraln… [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0316412600
- Language: English
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Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist
$16.95 Read more“A slim yet powerful book in which Marc Ribot blends bits of memoir with strange little fictions, many of which are based on his own life and career.” —Wall Street Journal
Throughout his genre-defying
- Author: Ribot, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 163614067X
- Language: English
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First Floor Volume 1: Reflections on Electronic Music Culture
$20.00 Read moreFirst Floor started small. At first it was just a newsletter, an outlet where veteran electronic music journalist Shawn Reynaldo could write and share his ideas without having to contend with outside … [more below]
- Author: Reynaldo, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1913231348
- Language: English
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Too Late to Stop Now: More Rock’n’roll War Stories
$24.00 Read moreMore than 40 stories from the glory days of rock’n’roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash.
Allan Jones brings stories – many previously unpublished – from the golden days of music r- Author: Jones, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 144821825X
- Language: English
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Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians
$27.95 Add to cartIn this unique and deeply thoughtful collection, musician Alex Bleeker (Real Estate) and food and travel journalist Luke Pyenson (formerly of Frankie Cosmos) take readers on tour with a diverse lineup… [more below]
- Author: Pyenson, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1797224573
- Language: English
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Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives
$27.99 Read more“Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it’s also a manual for artists and fans alike. There is no formula. Just these inspiring stories of the heart . . . ” –Cameron Crowe, Academ
- Author: Baltin, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0785290524
- Language: English
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Forbidden Beat: Perspectives on Punk Drumming
$20.00 Read moreWhether they’re self-taught bashers or technical wizards, drummers are the thrashing, crashing heart of our favorite punk bands. In Forbidden Beat, some of today’s most respected writers and musicians… [more below]
- Author: Lauden, S. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1644282275
- Language: English
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The Future of Songwriting
$16.99 Read moreThrowing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh meditates on the future of her craft in this wry, existential and passionate addition to Melville House’s new series, FUTUR… [more below]
- Series: Futures
- Author: Hersh, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891179
- Language: English
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You’ve Never Heard Your Favorite Song: 100 Deep Cuts to Make Your World Sound Better
$10.95 Add to cart“Doucet takes a refreshingly genre-free approach, careening from heady dub reggae to pastoral folk-rock, from unreal disco workouts to mind-bending electronica. His enthusiasm is such that you’ll be s
- Series: Curios
- Author: Doucet, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1604339705
- Language: English
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The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines
$15.95 Add to cartThe music and noise manifestos of the Italian Futurists formed a blueprint for sonic warfare waged against traditionalism, a radical new agenda played out with machines primed for maximal acoustic des… [more below]
- Author: Russolo, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1840686863
- Language: English
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This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music
$29.00 Read moreEdited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sin?d Gleeson, this powerful collection of award-winning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them
- Author: Gordon, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0306829002
- Language: English
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Kick Out the Jams: Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing
$0.00 Read moreSelected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation.
Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, K- Author: Marsh, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982197161
- Language: English
