The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion by Steven Isserlis
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music
A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis.'The very model of how to write about music.' Philip Pullman'An essential companion.' Jeremy Denk, New York Times\'Illuminating, accessible and detailed.' ObserverBach's six cello suites for solo c ...Show more
The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn by Matthew Bannister; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and f ...Show more
The History of Bones - A Memoir by John Lurie
$48.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie. In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood in its vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother in 1979, Lurie quickly beca ...Show more
The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera by Matthew Aucoin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Florence, set themselves the unreachable goal of reproducing the wonders of ancient Greek drama, which no one can be sure was sung in the first place. Opera's greatest artists have striven to fuse multi ...Show more
The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store - A Global History by Gina Arnold (Editor); John Dougan (Editor); Christine Feldman-Barrett (Editor); Matthew Worley (Editor)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music
Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes about our relationsh ...Show more
The Listening Party: Artists, Bands And Fans Reflect On 100 Favourite Albums by Tim Burgess
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music
Artists, bands, and fans reflect on some of the finest albums of all timeThe Charlatans' Tim Burgess invites you to the greatest listening party of all time. In 2020 when the world was forced to hit pause on live in-person gigs, Tim Burgess found an ingenious way to bring people together by inviting art ...Show more
The Little Guide to AC/DC: For Those About to Read, We Salute You! by Unnamed
$17.00 NZD
Category: Music
Giving Satan Tinnitus Since 1973.Jacked up to the max with plenty of juice left to squeeze, AC/DC can still ignite their excitable audiences with their supercharged, power-cord hungry rock, even in 2023.This Little Guide to AC/DC is the ultimate, greatest hits compilation of the band's best bits in quic ...Show more
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney
$65.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year, now in paperback with seven new commentaries from Paul McCartney 'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or ...Show more
The Number Ones - Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan
$37.99 NZD
Category: Music
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"--a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in th ...Show more
The Rolling Stones Rare and Unseen by Gered Mankowitz
$69.99 NZD
Category: Music
Containing many images of the band that have never been published anywhere before now, and accompanied by Gered's memories and revealing insights into the shoots, tours and sessions he spent with the band around the world, this is the definitive collection of Mankowitz's breathtaking photography. The Ro ...Show more
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishiguro
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
A unique collaborative publication which documents the lyrics written by Nobel Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro for the platinum selling, Grammy nominated, Jazz singer Stacey Kent.
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national conscience as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born. 2 Tone was black and white: a multi-racial force of British and Caribbean island musicians singing about social i ...Show more