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Crazy Enough: A Memoir by Storm Large Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Best Music Writing 2011 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) by Alex Ross Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin Review This is one of the most extraordinary, clever, beautiful, and impeccably researched books I have read in years. A fascinating story deftly toldand, for me at least, ideally read with Bachs thirty-six movements playing softly in the background;... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dirt by Motley Crue Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The album cover art of soundtracks by Frank Jastfelder Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Decoded (10 Edition) by Jay-z Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam by Mark Levine Publisher Comments “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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 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 $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup by C K Lendt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 by Stuart Isacoff Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Business of Music by M Will Krasilovsky Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 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 $40.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Postcards from the Boys by Ringo Starr Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of about Fifty by Wilfrid Sheed Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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