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Blondie’s Parallel Lines
$14.95 Read moreBlondie’s Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while remai
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: McLeod, Kembrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 24 2016
- ISBN10: 150130237X
- Language: English
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Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach
$14.95 Read moreSo much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, ha
- Series: 33 1/3 #141
- Author: Kheshti, Roshanak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: October 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1501320289
- Language: English
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Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
$14.95 Read moreTwo and a half decades on, Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993-94) is the rare album to have lost none of its original loyalty, affection, and reverence. If anything, today, the cult of Jawbrea
- Series: 33 1/3 #130
- Author: Givony, Ronen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501323091
- Language: English
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The Modern Lovers’ the Modern Lovers
$14.95 Read moreFrom the “War on Hippies” to the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high octane tale of Brutalist architecture, rock ‘n’ roll ambition and the struggle for identity in a chan
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Maloney, Sean L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1501322184
- Language: English
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Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ on
$14.95 Read moreThe story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious attic
- Series: 33 1/3 #32
- Author: Lewis, Miles Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417442
- Language: English
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Band’s Music from Big Pink
$14.95 Read more“Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man’s cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy….Thi
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2005
- ISBN10: 082641771X
- Language: English
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Tom Petty’s Southern Accents
$14.95 Read moreBy 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like “The Waiting” and “Ref
- Series: 33 1/3 #139
- Author: Washburn, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501333445
- Language: English
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Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
$14.95 Read moreIn 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seeme
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Foley, Michael Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1623567300
- Language: English
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
$14.95 Add to cartChristopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing –
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weingarten, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429130
- Language: English
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Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
$14.95 Read moreShelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding’s Live in Europe and James Brown’s Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums e
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Fleming, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355546
- Language: English
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American Recordings
$14.95 Read moreWhen Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin’s record label in 1993, he was already in the wax museum of memory, a fondly regarded but totally marginalized legend, unheard on the radio and unseen on the char
- Series: 33 1/3 #80
- Author: Tost, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2011
- ISBN10: 1441174613
- Language: English
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Cat Power’s Moon Pix
$14.95 Read more“Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997. Like all legends, the aura surrounding them is an impression, a sen… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Kozloskie, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1501377930
- Language: English
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Big Star’s Radio City
$14.95 Add to cartReleased when ELP and Elton John were plodding from one packed stadium to the next, Radio City was a radical album influenced by records that were already deemed oldies and yet sounding like a lean el… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #65
- Author: Eaton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826428983
- Language: English
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Guided by Voices’ Bee Thousand
$14.95 Read moreMarc Woodworth’s book covers the album’s long and unorthodox period of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. It includes interviews with members of the band, manager Pete Jamison, web-master an
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Woodworth, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417485
- Language: English
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David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs
$14.95 Read moreAfter his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits “Fame” and “Golden Years” David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic “Hunger City” popula
- Series: 33 1/3 #143
- Author: Hendler, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1501336584
- Language: English
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Pearl Jam’s vs.
$14.95 Read moreVs. is the sound of a band on fire. The same confluence of talent, passion, timing, and fate that made “grunge” the world’s soundtrack also lit a short fuse beneath Pearl Jam. The band combusted betwe
- Series: 33 1/3 #154
- Author: Brownlee, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355309
- Language: English
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Wowee Zowee
$14.95 Read morePavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York. They took a step back and assessed the material. It was a wild scene. They had fully fleshe
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Charles, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429572
- Language: English
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LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver
$14.95 Add to cartWhen LCD Soundsystem broke up in 2011, they left behind a small but remarkable catalog of music. On top of the genius singles and a longform composition for Nike, there was a trilogy of full-length al
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Leas, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1501325612
- Language: English
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Court and Spark
$14.95 Add to cartCourt and Spark is Joni Mitchell’s most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertso
- Series: 33 1/3 #40
- Author: Nelson, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0826417736
- Language: English
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Reign in Blood
$14.95 Read moreIssued on America’s premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer’s controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal, a seamless 29-minute procession
- Series: 33 1/3 #57
- Author: Ferris, D. X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0826429092
- Language: English
