I'll Be Gone; Mike Rudd, Spectrum and how one song captured a generation by Craig Horne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
It reveals the musical and personal journey of Michael Rudd a national treasure, even though he's a New Zealander! The book traces Rudd's musical origins leading Chants R&B, a quirky counter-cultural phenomenon of a band from Christchurch and follows him as he moves to Melbourne in the mid-1960's to ...Show more
In the Groove: The Vinyl Record and Turntable Revolution by Gillian G. Gaar, Martin Popoff, Richie Unterberger, Matt Anniss
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first commercial LP with this authoritative, highly illustrated, and multi-faceted look at the history and culture of vinyl record collecting and turntables. Vinyl records continue to be hot commodities among everyone from obsessive audiophiles to newbie collectors ...Show more
Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined by Kirsten Krauth (editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
This stunning follow up to Minds Went Walking- Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined features Christos Tsiolkas, Cate Kennedy and Andy Griffiths. From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy ...Show more
Into the Groove - The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl by Jonathan Scott
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
The story of recorded sound--the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on society, from the phonograph to LPs, EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl. In Into the Groove, vinyl collector and music buff Jonathan Scott dissects a mind-blowing feat that we all take ...Show more
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
$36.99 AUD
Category: Music
'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on in ...Show more
Lost in Music by Giles Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission to become Sting. At least, for the time being.'Lost in Music is about growing up with pop music - about ...Show more
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of a ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug." This is ...Show more
Shake Some Action: My life in music (and other stuff) by Stuart Coupe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
The story of how a gangly, music-obsessed kid from Tassie did everything and met everyone - Shake Some Action is a rip-snorting rock 'n' roll ride through a life of power and passion. First as a music writer and then as an editor, promoter, manager, broadcaster, publicist and author, Stuart Coupe has e ...Show more
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ...Show more
The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones by Lesley-Ann Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
The Rolling Stones juggernaut appraised and dissected as never before - the good, the bad, the ugly. As Lesley-Ann Jones writes, the Rolling Stones are "still roaming the globe like rusty tanks without a war to go to. Jumping, jacking, flashing, posturing, these septuagenarian caricatures with faces th ...Show more
Whole Notes by Ed Ayres
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Life Lessons Through Music How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening ...Show more