Music: Styles & Genres

A memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success as one of the world's...

I Drive a Valence is a book of lyrics by Bill Callahan, the author and singer, whose songs (stories, really) are performed in his own inimitable an...

Johnny O'Keefe was a human dynamo, a rock 'n' roll powerhouse whose influence still looms large on the Australia musical landscape. He was brillian...

Few American artists are as important, beloved and endlessly examined as Bob Dylan, yet he remains something of an enigma. This kaleidoscopic biogr...

One of our great essayists and journalists-the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau-takes us on a heady tour through his life and times ...

Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive ...

From its roots in the black and white under classes through its clash with the broader culture to its multifaceted incarnation today, rock and r...

For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin'. F...

''''In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It''''s a foundation of British music.'''' - StormzyShortlisted fo...

Culled from 10 years of the ÊElectronic MusicianÊ ÊRemixÊ and ÊEQÊ magazines' archives the articles in ÊElectronic Musician Presents the Recordi...

Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edg...

Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vin...

When LCD Soundsystem broke up in 2011, they left behind a small but remarkable catalog of music. On top of the genius singles and a longform compos...

If any band deserves to have homage paid to them with a lavish, limited edition photographic book, look no further than Blue Oyster Cult. With thei...

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most famous album by the most famous band in the history of rock n roll. It became the soundtrack for t...

Drawing upon extensive new first hand interview material from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and many other significant players in the band''s long hist...

_________Hepworths knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious [a] hugely entertaining study of the LPs golden age The Times________...

A tear-off calendar, shrink-wrapped with stand-up display. Currently vinyl is coming alive and therefore all the artful covers of the last decade a...

The Beatles hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural re...

The Beatles - on track analyses every single song that the Beatles recorded - whether live or in the studio - from the most famous, to the most obs...

Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning brings together a collection of international authors to explore the possibilities, practices and impl...

This collector''s edition by award-winning photographer Brian Griffin includes rare and previously unseen photographs of the key figures in the mus...

In recent years, Björks artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in ...

Released in 2008, J-pop trio Perfumes GAME shot to the top of Japanese music charts and turned the Hiroshima trio into a household name across the ...

In 1978, Siouxsie and the Banshees declared We dont see ourselves in the same context as other rock'n'roll bands. A decade later, and in the stark ...

The Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera takes listeners on a road trip through the American South, with stops along mean old highways and soul-su...

A definitive collection of photographs of the legendary and influential band New Order. New Order remains one of the most popular bands of the last...

This day-by-day chronicle of every live concert by the Rolling Stones from 1962 through 1982 traces their development from a band playing small ...

Can you find the King of Rock n' Roll? This fabulous, fun and comically-illustrated book features scenes based on Elvis' remarkable, star-studded l...