Metallica All the Songs - The Story Behind Every Track by Benoît Clerc
$120.00 NZD
Category: Music
The latest in the bestselling All the Songs series, this is the most in-depth exploration of Metallica's songs ever written. The latest book in the bestselling All the Songs series, this is the most in-depth exploration of Metallica's songs ever written. From their widely circulated demo, No Lif ...Show more
Mick Rock. the Rise of David Bowie: 1972-1973 by Barneyy Hoskyns, Michael Bracewell
$140.00 NZD
Category: Music
A unique tribute from David Bowie's official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie's blessing. In 1972 David Bowie released his groundbreaking album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie's Stardust alter ego: a glitter ...Show more
Needles and Plastic - Flying Nun Records 1981–1988 by Matthew Goody
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
A richly illustrated Flying Nun discography – all the records from ‘Tally Ho!’ to Bird-Dog. Founded in 1981 by Roger Shepherd, Flying Nun Records unleashed an extraordinary wave of New Zealand music on listeners in Aotearoa and around the world – from The Clean to the Headless Chickens, Look Blue Go Pur ...Show more
Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated and Other Sweeping Statements about Pop by David Hepworth
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Pop music's a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer? But what's fascinating about pop is our relationship with it. David Hepworth is interested in the human side of pop. He's interested in how people make the stuff and, more importantly, what it means to us. In th ...Show more
Official ABBA Photobook by ABBA
$65.00 NZD
Category: Music
The only Official ABBA book: now with a brand new chapter featuring never-seen-before pictures from ABBA Voyage
Pink Floyd and the Dark Side of the Moon: 50 Years by Martin Popoff
$110.00 NZD
Category: Music
Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever on the 50th anniversary of its release with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written slipcased edition. Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon offers a generously illustrated deep dive into all aspects of one of the most popular ro ...Show more
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse) by Leah Broad
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestr ...Show more
Rock Covers – 40 by Robbie Busch; Jonathan Kirby; Julius Wiedemann (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks--the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixture ...Show more
Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone, Stone Rolling
$85.00 NZD
Category: Music
From Rolling Stone, the definitive and lavishly illustrated companion book to one of the most popular and hotly debated lists in the world of musicWhen Rolling Stone publishes a list, the world listens. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list was first established in 2003 and the line-up was updated in ...Show more
Sea Shanties - The Lyrics and History of Sailor Songs by Karen Dolby; Gabriella Nemeth (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music
Sea shanties are enjoying a huge resurgence in recent months, and given their history and purpose, it is hardly surprising. Composed and performed by sailors on sailing ships to ensure the rhythmic operation of the hauling and heaving that was a mainstay of a lot of their work aboard these huge mercha ...Show more
Sellout - The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) by Dan Ozzi
$37.00 NZD
Category: Music
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, 'Our Band Could Be Your Life.' - New York Times Book Review. A raucous history of punk, ...Show more
She Raised Her Voice! - 50 Black Women Who Sang Their Way into Music History by Jordannah Elizabeth
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
From jazz and blues, hip hop and R&B, pop, punk, and opera, Black women have made major contributions to the history and formation of musical genres for more than a century. In this fully illustrated middle grade anthology, 50 strong, empowering, and inspiring Black women singers' bios will teach ki ...Show more