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Labyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal by Randall Sullivan Staff Pick Who killed Tupac and Biggie? Randall Sullivan has the answer in this compelling true tale of political corruption and gangsta rap. Labyrinth follows Detective Russell Poole as he uncovers the dark morass within the LAPD and its connection to the death of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Paul McCartney: I Saw Him Standing There by Jorie B Gracen Book News Annotation Published to coincide with Paul McCartney's forthcoming tour (his first since 1993), this attractive volume consists of about 200 exclusive color and b&w photographs of the artist onstage and off, from 1976 to the present. Together with stories told... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $2.49 Used - Hardcover
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Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan Publisher Comments "I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thaddeus Carhart Publisher Comments This intimate and idiosyncratic history of the piano and a view into the secret heart of Paris life is written by an American expatriate, who details his attempts to gain entry into a piano shop where locals gathered to discuss music, love, and life.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small by John Cook Publisher Comments Merge Records defies everything you've heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing industry is... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin Staff Pick A revelation for music buffs and science geeks — and all the better if you happen to be both. How do memory and music work together? What makes timbre? How do writers like Lennon and McCartney, or John Coltrane and Miles Davis, manipulate our... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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U2 by U2 by U2 Publisher Comments In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. The drum kit just about fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all and... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition (Complete Idiot's Guides) by Michael Miller Publisher Comments "Write the songs that make the whole world sing." A step-by-step guide to writing music, this book shows musicians how to compose simple chord progressions and melodies, and leads them through more advanced compositional techniques and musical forms... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen Publisher Comments For the first time in paperback--the selected work of the legendary singer, poet, and performer. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including 11 previously unpublished poems--and demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur Publisher Comments His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic -- a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable -- remaining vibrant and alive. Here now, newly discovered, are Tupac's most honest... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears by Antonino D'Ambrosio Publisher Comments A Heartbeat and a Guitar tells of the collaboration of two distinct yet connected musicians — iconoclast Johnny Cash and pioneering folk artist Peter La Farge — and the album they created, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. It also... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records by Bill Brewster Publisher Comments DJs have gone from being underpaid live jukeboxes to becoming premier entertainers, producers, businessmen, and musicians capable of commanding admiration from thousands and earning serious money. Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's Last Night a DJ Saved... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic by Jim Derogatis Publisher Comments Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die by Tom Moon Staff Pick Like the kid in high school who always made mix tapes, Tom Moon has compiled an authoritative cross-section of music, from classical composers to modern electronica artists, in 1,000 Recording to Hear before You Die. Each of his selections features not... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Silence by John Cage Publisher Comments 'Silence starts with the finest dedications of modern times - 'To Whom It May Concern' - and past that you embark on one of the most entertaining and rewarding intellectual voyages that contemporary literature affords.'... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons: The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn to Play from Sheet Music or by Ear by Norman Monath Publisher Comments "Anyone who can dial a telephone can learn to play popular piano quickly and easily." So says Norman Monath, author of How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons. His no-frills, no-drills method will have you playing simple tunes within 30 minutes... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music by Ben Ratliff Publisher Comments The Jazz Ear will be a permanent part of learning how to listen inside the musicians playing.--Nat Hentoff, Jazz Times Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Singing by Luisa Tetrazzini Publisher Comments Non-technical advice to aspiring singers from 2 of the greatest singers. Focuses on the care and training of the voice, tone emission and attack, voice faults, more.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight by John Mcdermott Publisher Comments Here's the first complete, definitive account of the career, music, and legacy of Jimi Hendrix, based entirely on first-person recollections and new, exclusive interviews with musicians and key figures in the Hendrix inner circle. Authors John McDermott... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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