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Crazy Enough: A Memoir
Crazy Enough: A Memoir
by Storm Large
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Yes, Storm Large is her real name, though shes been called many things. As a performer, the majority of descriptions have led with “Amazon,” “Powerhouse,” “a six-foot Vargas pinup come to life.” Playboy called her a... (read more)

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Best Music Writing 2011 (Da Capo Best Music Writing)
Best Music Writing 2011 (Da Capo Best Music Writing)
by Alex Ross
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Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to... (read more)

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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
by Mark Yarm
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Twenty years after the release of Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the center of it all.   Grunge, the raw... (read more)

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The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
by Eric Siblin
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“This is one of the most extraordinary, clever, beautiful, and impeccably researched books I have read in years. A fascinating story deftly told—and, for me at least, ideally read with Bachs thirty-six movements playing softly in the background;... (read more)

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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
by Rob Sheffield
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Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years... (read more)

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Chronicles: Volume One
Chronicles: Volume One
by Bob Dylan
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"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)

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The Dirt
The Dirt
by Motley Crue
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Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life of Mötley Crüe, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. Their unbelievable exploits... (read more)

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The album cover art of soundtracks
The album cover art of soundtracks
by Frank Jastfelder
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Thunderball. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Barbarella. The soundtrack albums of these and other classic movies are among the most prized LP collectibles today -- recordings that summon up the secret agents, starlets, glamour, and exotica of the past and set... (read more)

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Decoded (10 Edition)
Decoded (10 Edition)
by Jay-z
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Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time. “Hip-hop’s renaissance... (read more)

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Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
by Mark Levine
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“We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.” —Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene “Music is the weapon of the future.” —Fela Kuti An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves... (read more)

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
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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)

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Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup
Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup
by C K Lendt
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A behind-the-scenes look at the mix of hard rock and business, this insider's tell-all shows how images are built, money is made, and profits are spent.... (read more)

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Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
by Michael Azerrad
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Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell  nearly five million copies of their landmark album  Nevermind, whose thunderous sound  and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion,  frustration, and passion of... (read more)

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A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians: From Mozart to Modern Jazz, and Everything in Between
A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians: From Mozart to Modern Jazz, and Everything in Between
by Stuart Isacoff
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A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own.   With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of... (read more)

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1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die
1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die
by Tom Moon
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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)

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This Business of Music
This Business of Music
by M Will Krasilovsky
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A perennial bestseller, this definitive guide to all legal, economic, and financial aspects of the music business better than ever in its revised, thoroughly updated new edition, now accompanied by a compact disc with ready-to-use contracts and essential... (read more)

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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
by Sara Marcus
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Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl — the radical feminist uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s and included incendiary punk bands Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, and Huggy Bear. A dynamic... (read more)

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U2 by U2
U2 by U2
by U2
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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)

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Postcards from the Boys
Postcards from the Boys
by Ringo Starr
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For the first time, Ringo Starr is opening his private archive to share over 50 never-before-seen delightful and very intimate postcards sent to him throughout the years from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison. Each postcard is a warm and... (read more)

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The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of about Fifty
The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of about Fifty
by Wilfrid Sheed
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From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexanders Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular... (read more)

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