Sonic Life - A Memoir by Thurston Moore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art - from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to thirty years of creation, experimentation, and wonder. "Downtown scientists rejoice! F ...Show more
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial by John Densmore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene' - that part of the human psyche that propels us toward the accumulation of more and more wealth, even at the expense of our principles, friendships, and th ...Show more
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: 'Far away from Myself' by Clinton Heylin
$69.99 AUD
Category: Music
The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident to the present day. We meet a man who is determined to confound expectations; yet whatever he does only seems to confirm his iconic status to fans and critics alike.There are peaks and troughs. Lo ...Show more
Vinyl Dreams: How the 1970s Changed Music by Tony Wellington
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
A scintillating journey through the seventies and the extraordinary music it gave rise to — including the new concept of sound that defines music today.After the dense miasma of the sixties, the seventies hit like a hangover. Idealism took a pounding as cynicism began to pervade western culture. Stagfla ...Show more
Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studio by David Hepworth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
With a foreword by Paul McCartney 'It's semi-devotional -- a really special place' Florence Welch 'There are certain things that are mythical. Abbey Road is mythical' Nile Rodgers Many people will recognise the famous zebra crossing. Some visitors may have graffitied their name on its hallowed outer ...Show more
Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney) by David Hepworth
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
Abbey Road studios has partnered with music journalist David Hepworth to write the story of Abbey Road as never told before. Featuring interviews with artists, producers and sound engineers, transcripts, photographs, and much more, this is the story of how the first purpose built recording studio would ...Show more
Cassette Culture - The Past and Present of a Musical Icon by John Z. Komurki (Text by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
From videos by Frank Ocean to the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, tapes have become increasingly prominent in cinema, advertising, and, of course, the music industry. And as tape sales in the US grew by 74% last year, there is no doubt that it is time to address past, present and future of the "Compact C ...Show more
Chaise Longue by Baxter Dury
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Methods of parenting and education have progressed in recent years, especially compared to some of the more casually experimental routes inflicted on children of artistic professionals in the 70s and 80s. One experience that would take some beating is that endured by Baxter Dury.When punk rock star Ian ...Show more
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Lucinda Williams's rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father--a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties--got a new job, totalling twelve different places by the time she was 18. Her mother s ...Show more
Full Coverage: A History of the Australian Rock Press by Samuel J. Fell
$36.99 AUD
Category: Music
For over fifty years, Australia has maintained its own rock press - a vibrant, passionate, sometimes volatile industry of dozens of papers and magazines committed to the coverage of the country' s robust music scene.From the glossy and glamorous to the punk and pernicious, these publications were the me ...Show more
Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Terrific... Very funny' Guardian What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawe ...Show more