Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

In this candid biography/photo book of the rock group that has sold over two million copies of its debut album Hot Fuss, noted journalist Jarret Keene reveals the secret meanings of songs by The Killers (The Ballad of Michael Valentine, Jenny Was a Friend...

Black Book is the only detailed live concert history of legendary English rock band Blur. This updated and greatly expanded 2nd edition includes detailed concert reviews of over 250 shows throughout Blur's career, from 1989-2012. Along with set lists and performance reviews, the live...

The first of its sort, I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School provides readers with a detailed production history of this beloved film that draws upon extensive interviews the author has conducted with many of the...

The career of the prolific pop artist Prince has become inextricably intertwined with the history of popular music since the late 1970s. This multi-instrumental icon, who remains one of the highest-grossing live performers in America, has been called a genius for his musicianship, composition...

Jim Guthrie: Who Needs What tells the story of a musician whose twenty-year career has been spent either at the forefront of Canada's indie rock renaissance or in the background of some of the most popular indie games, films, and ad campaigns of the...

David O'Dell was one of the earliest supporters of the Chinese punk rock scene that started taking shape in 1995 in Beijing. The book is a rich and uniquely personal collection of stories, over one hundred previously unreleased photos and translated song lyrics from...

The Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, was one of America's top-of-the-line music recording facilities. Opened in 1972, Record Plant was known as the "resort studio," just across the Golden Gate Bridge in Northern California and away from the big city. One of three...

Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and heavy metal fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume surveys more than 80 of the genre's greatest axe-slingers from the 1970s to present. From metal pioneers like Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, and Deep...

One of the first books in a new series, this book explores the icon that is Bob Dylan, the ultimate singer-songwriter. This book looks at his lyrics, his influences, and the musicians with whom he worked. Fully up-to-date, it includes the Bootleg Series, Vol....

Featured Interviews with Billy Cox, Rock and Roll Biographer Harry Shapiro, Guitarist Eric Gales. A special interview with Photographer Gered Mankowitz and a Hendrix Photo Vault presented by Photographer Baron Wolman.Author: Kelcey AlonzoISBN-10: 1502322927ISBN-13: 9781502322920Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/25/2013Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize:...

In 1992, Victor Bockris's celebrated biography was the first to recognise Richards's pivotal role in the legend of the Rolling Stones. Now that book on rock's most incredible survivor has been expanded.Here are the true facts behind Richards' battles with his demons: the women,...

Jimi Hendrix cut a mesmerising figure striding through the grey London streets in late 1966 with his long hair and extraordinary clothes. This book traces the story in detail from him leaving New York in 1966 to arriving back home for the Monterey Pop...

Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and...

Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk: Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music, edited by Eric James Abbey and Colin Helb, is a collection of writings on music that is considered aggressive throughout the world. From local underground bands in Detroit, Michigan to bands in Puerto Rico...

Eric Robin Bell (born 3 September 1947 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish rock and blues musician, best known as a founding member and the original guitarist of the rock group Thin Lizzy from 1969 to 1973. After his time in Thin...

Part news report, part social history, and part memoir, this book tells the story of a band from the wrong side of the tracks trying to stay afloat in an ever changing musical and social climate. At a rock gig in a Rhondda pub,...

This is a pure rock and roll space opera featuring the legendary Jimi Hendrix as you've never seen him before. Fully sanctioned by Experience Hendrix L.L.C.; Authentic Hendrix, LLC - this is the first ever full-length graphic novel inspired by the music of the...

(Harmonica Play-Along). The Harmonica Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the notation, listen to the audio to hear how the harmonica should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics...

Political Rock features luminary figures in rock music that have stood out not only for their performances, but also for their politics. The book opens with a comparative, cultural history of artists who have played important roles in social movements. Individual chapters are devoted...

They don't do it for the fame, they do it for the music -- these rock legends and priestesses of sound are the outsiders, the trailblazers, artists who changed the face of music forever simply for the love of it. From Captain Beefheart to...

The comic strips of Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death deliver an irreverent, heartfelt, and devastatingly funny history of rock and roll. Like Monty Python at its best, their version is surreal and ridiculous - yet somehow everything in it rings true. According to...

2017 Edition: Mark McAvoy explores the history of Cork rock music from the rise of legendary blues-rock guitarist Rory Gallagher and his successful career on the international stage, through the Finbarr Donnelly-led punk era of the 1980s, to indie legends The Frank And Walters...

The Beatles: Fab but True examines 16 discrete stories about the Beatles that range from the merely unreal to the cosmically coincidental. Unlike the countless other Beatles books that have been written over the decades, The Beatles: Fab but True does a deep dive...

The Beatles "Get Back"/"Let It Be" sessions and the resulting unreleased and released albums and bootlegged recordings are among the most interesting and confusing aspects of the Beatles recorded legacy. Bruce Spizer's fourth installment in his Beatles album series, The Beatles Finally Let It...

If anyone has a detailed account of The Sweet's career in the seventies, look no further than Jan Frewer. Jan had been the bassist and vocalist for sixties band Wainwright's Gentleman, who for a while included lead vocalist Ian Gillan. Gillan was replaced by...

Make music with the legendary English alternative rock band The Verve.Author: The VerveISBN-10: 1859098754ISBN-13: 9781859098752Publisher: International Music PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2005Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 11.93h x 8.84w x 0.19d

Frontman, Songwriter & Producer Keith Lamb (Hush, Status Quo) introduces 300+ wide-ranging and riveting Rock 'n' Roll-themed conversations, plus a Guide to Rock 'n' Roll Conversations, with fascinating endnotes. Come together with friends of all ages to explore your love for, experiences of, and...

Called by Entertainment Weekly The best book on Hendrix, Crosstown Traffic rode their A-list for over two months and won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Roots-savvy British critic Charles Shaar Murray assesses the lifework of guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the context...

In Why Don't We Do It In The Road? the author looks back to the 1960s and the global phenomenon surrounding four young men from Liverpool . . .The names and the songs are well known, but the "why?" is more difficult to locate...

- The ultimate collector's coloring and activity-book dedicated to the clothes, songs, and key people and places in the career of legendary superstar David Bowie- The complete guide to Bowie's brilliant world For the duration of his career, David Bowie kept away from scripts...

A leading music journalist's riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and how their legacy and longevity have transcended generations. Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they...

Written in Williams' "warm, relaxed, chatty style" ("The New York Times"), this book is a veritable portable jukebox of rock and roll and the stories behind the songs. "(Williams is) one of the most original thinkers and writers working within the dimension of rock....

Being the frontman of a popular band is a high-risk profession. Richard Barone, former lead singer of indie rock pioneers the Bongos, survived two decades in the spotlight to tell the tale. From dallying with the glitterati in the trendiest night spots, to learning...

CELEBRATING THE ICONIC LEGACY OF SUBLIME WITH THE OFFICIAL GRAPHIC NOVEL The laid-back Long Beach trio spawned an entire genre--fusing reggae grooves, punk grittiness, ska energy, back-porch folk introspection, and hip-hop swagger. The band goes from playing backyard parties and selling cassettes out of...

This title does not yet have a description.Author: Dave GrohlISBN-10: 0063264528ISBN-13: 9780063264526Publisher: Dey Street BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2024Pages: 304Format: Hardcover

Offering lessons, licks and tricks drawn from rock guitar masters, this how-to guide boosts players' soloing technique, rhythm playing, and understanding of rock theory. Fully updated and expanded, it reveals secrets of nﾜ-metal stars such as Rage Against the Machine, provides lessons on roots-rock...

An updated edition celebrating more than 50 years of the ground-breaking Atom Heart Mother By the late 1960s, popular British prog-rock outfit Pink Floyd were experiencing a creative voltage drop, so they turned to composer Ron Geesin for help in writing their next album....

"Smart, engaging..."-PopMatters"Fascinating, informative, extraordinary, and essential reading for the legions of Jim Morrison fans."--Midwest Book ReviewShrouded in mystery and the swirling psychedelic sounds of the Sixties, the Doors have captivated listeners across seven decades. Jim Morrison--haunted, beautiful, and ultimately doomed--transformed from rock god to...

ROCK HARDWARE 40 YRS OF ROCK INSTRUMENTATIONAuthor: Paul TrynkaISBN-10: 0879304286ISBN-13: 9780879304287Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1996Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 11.13h x 8.66w x 0.55dReview Citation(s): Booklist 01/01/1997 pg. 804Library Journal 03/15/1997 pg. 65

As Andrew's life started, at the age of three when his grandma sat him on her piano stool and tried to teach him how to play, his love for music was born! From the 1950s and into the future, music in his life has...

Jerry Hopkins's Elvis: A Biography was the first book on popular music to top the U.S. bestseller list, and its sequel was equally popular. Long out of print, both books, along with a wealth of exciting new interviews, are brought together in Elvis to...

Grab a microphone and turn up the volume.Moving from Hawai'i to Fresno in seventh grade changed Adrienne Robillard's view of the world, herself, and her future. Being a new kid in a new school meant hours of time alone spent listening to cassette tapes...

The first scholarly discussion on the band, Pearl Jam and Philosophy examines both the songs (music and lyrics) and the activities (live performances, political commitments) of one of the most celebrated and charismatic rock bands of the last 30 years. The book investigates the...

This is a groundbreaking study of every aspect of Van Morrison's artistic career - his influences, lyrical themes, vocal performances, his relationship with America, and more. In 1991 Van Morrison said, 'Music is spiritual, the music business isn't'. Peter Mills' groundbreaking book investigates the...

The first in-depth study of David Bowie's music videos across a sustained period takes on interweaving storyworlds of an iconic career. Remarkable for their capacity to conjure elaborate imagery, Bowie's videos provide fascinating exemplars of the artistry and remediation of music video. When their...

Black Sabbath's Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it's a touchstone for the directionless, and common coin for young men and women who've felt excluded from the broader cultural economy. John Darnielle hears it through the ears of Roger...

Every nation in the Americas--from indigenous Peru to revolutionary Cuba--has been touched by the cultural and musical impact of rock. Rockin\u2019 Las Am\u00e9ricas is the first book to explore the production, dissemination, and consumption of rock music throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Brazil,...

The first in-depth study of David Bowie's music videos across a sustained period takes on interweaving storyworlds of an iconic career. Remarkable for their capacity to conjure elaborate imagery, Bowie's videos provide fascinating exemplars of the artistry and remediation of music video. When their...

Heartstrings Melissa Etheridge and Her Guitars tells the singer's stories through each of her legendary instruments. Each chapter features a different one of her guitars each of which is named after a significant woman in history Melissa Etheridge's Heartstrings takes you on a journey...

Pursuing the dream of a musical vocation--particularly in rock music--is typically regarded as an adolescent pipedream. Music is marked as an appropriate leisure activity, but one that should be discarded upon entering adulthood. How then do many men and women aspire to forge careers...