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This is a fascinating overview of music's intriguing and enduring relationship with the dark side. Much of the music discussed in Gathering Of The Tribe deals with the special power of sound and tone. Frank Zappa may have said that ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture,’ but...

The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, although it has been used, implied and decried by composers, performers, listeners and critics for centuries. Irony in popular music is especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the business...

All Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, Rob Young gives us the full biography of a band that emerged at the vanguard of what would come to be called...

Akashic has been successful with Ryan's two previous art books. In fact, we published an updated version of his first book, so we have succeeded with three different launches for Jay Ryan. Book's introduction written by renowned illustrator Aaron Horkey. Ryan is one of the leading underground...

Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album, how it was composed, executed and recorded--including...

R.E.M. ist die wohl einflussreichste, produktivste und bedeutendste amerikanische Rockband der vergangenen 25 Jahre. Von ihren bescheidenen Postpunk-Anfängen in der Universitätsstadt Athens in Georgia bis zu ihrem gegenwärtigen Status als weltweites Phänomen, haben sich R.E.M. stets gegen die...

This collection of interviews across the entirety of Fleetwood Mac's career features articles from many celebrated publications as well as interviews that have never previously appear in print. Edited by Sean Egan, Fleetwood Mac On Fleetwood Mac is a fascinating insight into an era-defining rock band. Fleetwood...

A stunning photographic record of The Smiths' formative years. For many The Smiths were the definitive alternative rock band of the '80s. A bracing antidote to Thatcher's Britain for the youth of the day, Manchester-based Morrissey, Marr & Co. even approached something like mainstream success...

Wise Publications presents Friday On My Mind and 12 other hit songs by The Easybeats, arranged for piano and voice with chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and full lyrics. Featuring the original 1960s arrangements alongside cover artwork, images and a full introduction by acclaimed journalist...

The long forgotten story of Turkish psychedelic music in the twentieth century, told in relation to the social, political and cultural climate of the time. In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown...

What happens after the fairy tale ends? Last summer, Casey Snow's life changed in an instant after a chance encounter with Blake Parker, the lead guitarist of her favorite band. In weeks, she went from being an average high-school student to the paparazzi-plagued girlfriend of a rock star...

Led by exciting, outspoken singer Matthew Healy, The 1975 have taken the music world by storm with their 1980s-inspired funk-pop-rock.Their 2016 album debuted at #1 in the United States, Canada, and England. Music journalist David Nolan interviews key players in The 1975's story, including...

Come si può saltare fuori dal nulla, piombare nell'universo musicale squassandolo dalle fondamenta e diventare una stella di prima grandezza del panorama rock moderno? Già, perché oggi i Coldplay sono dappertutto: sono nelle canzoni che canticchiamo al risveglio; sono nella musica che inonda le...

Elvis Presley was unique. "I don't sound like nobody," he said before he was anybody, and John Lennon, whose Beatles would later create their own mania in the world, would offer the tribute: "Before Elvis, there was nothing." Elvis, writes New York Times bestselling author Rees...