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Lou Reed’s Transformer
$14.95 Add to cartTransformer, Lou Reed’s most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it’s often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album a… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #131
- Author: Furman, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501323059
- Language: English
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Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures
$14.95 Add to cartJoy Division’s career has often been shrouded by myths. But the truth is surprisingly simple: over a period of several months, Joy Division transformed themselves from run-of-the-mill punk wannabes in
- Series: 33 1/3 #09
- Author: Ott, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 117
- Publish Date: March 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0826415490
- Language: English
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The Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime
$14.95 Add to cartThe story of the Minutemen has been told before (Our Band Could Be Your Life, We Jam Econo), but this book focuses purely on their music – the punk ethic and the remarkable, enduring songs that compri
- Series: 33 1/3 #45
- Author: Fournier, Michael T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427871
- Language: English
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Sign ‘o’ the Times
$14.95 Read moreOne of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign O’ the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #10
- Author: Matos, Michaelangelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: March 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0826415474
- Language: English
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Pink Moon
$14.95 Read morePink Moon explores how Nick Drake’s third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the
- Series: 33 1/3 #51
- Author: Petrusich, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427901
- Language: English
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Portishead’s Dummy
$14.95 Add to cartAn album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead’s Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own p
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Wheaton, Rj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1441194495
- Language: English
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Chocolate and Cheese
$14.95 Read moreWeen now seems like a permanent fixture on the pop-cultural landscape, but when the band first hit MTV in the early ’90s, their longevity wasn’t so secure. Nearly two decades on, though, Aaron “Gene W
- Series: 33 1/3 #79
- Author: Shteamer, Hank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0826431178
- Language: English
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D’Angelo’s Voodoo
$14.95 Add to cartVoodoo, D’Angelo’s much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as “neo-soul,” a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a
- Series: 33 1/3 #144
- Author: Pennick, Faith A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1501336509
- Language: English
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The Go-Go’s Beauty and the Beat
$14.95 Read moreThe Go-Go’s debut album Beauty and the Beat was released on July 8, 1981. The album spent six weeks in the number one spot on the Billboard charts, produced two hit singles and sold more than two mill
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Whittington-Hill, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1501390287
- Language: English
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David Bowie’s Low
$14.95 Add to cartLos Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he’s built an altar in the living ro
- Series: 33 1/3 #26
- Author: Wilcken, Hugo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 19 2005
- ISBN10: 826416845
- Language: English
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Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV
$14.95 Add to cartIn this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music’s towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully peelin
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Davis, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416586
- Language: English
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Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
$14.95 Add to cartWhen Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-l
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Norelli, Clare Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1501323016
- Language: English
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Talking Heads’ Fear of Music
$14.95 Add to cartIt’s the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it’s the singer’s) announces into dead air in between songs “The Talking Head
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1441121005
- Language: English
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Marquee Moon
$14.95 Add to cartTwo kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the proprietor of a club hangs an awning with the new name for his venue. The place will be called CBGB & OMFUG whi… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #83
- Author: Waterman, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441186050
- Language: English
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Jeff Buckley’s Grace
$14.95 Add to cartThe power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces Jeff Buckley’s fascinating musical development through the earliest stages of his career, up to the releas
- Series: 33 1/3 #23
- Author: Brooks, Daphne A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 157
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416357
- Language: English
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Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
$14.95 Add to cartKoji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-repla
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Schartmann, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1628928530
- Language: English
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Living Colour’s Time’s Up
$14.95 Read moreThe iconic Black rock band Living Colour’s Time’s Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Time’s Up is a mus
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Mack, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1501377515
- Language: English
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Loveless
$14.95 Add to cartLoveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release – an album so influential and groundbreaking that its chief creator, Kevin Shields, has been unable or unwilling to release an official follow-up… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #36
- Author: McGonigal, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826415482
- Language: English
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Kid A
$14.95 Add to cartBy pulling Kid A from its canonical status and grounding the album in various contexts, Marvin Lin explains not only why Radiohead suddenly adopted a new songwriting methodology, but also how properti
- Series: 33 1/3 #76
- Author: Lin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0826423434
- Language: English
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Little Richard’s Here’s Little Richard
$14.95 Read moreFrom male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a Black multimillionaire rock star, he was the most exci
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Bassett, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389114
- Language: English
