MUSIC WE LIKE (MOSTLY)
The titles in this category are all about the different kinds of music we like. Well, mostly.
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Yes Is The Answer: And Other Prog-Rock Tales
$24.00Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it, hipsters scoff at it. Yes Is The Answer is a pointed rebuke to the prog-haters, the first literary anthology devoted to the sub genre. Learn More -
Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen
$21.95Working On a Dream is a powerful and engaging study of this songwriter and performer’s art. Springsteen has consistently summoned his creative power and artistic vision to indict political developments and demand the cultivation of a more compassionate and progressive society. Learn More -
Wild About You!: The Sixties Beat Explosion in Australia and New Zealand
$29.95The astonishing outpouring of rock’n’roll in the mid-1960s in Australia and New Zealand produced such iconic bands as the Easybeats, the Masters Apprentices, the La De Da’s, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, the Loved Ones, and the Missing Links. It was also the launching pad for a generation of musicians who would go on to far greater fame with groups like the Bee Gees, Little River Band, Daddy Cool, Spectrum, and the Coloured Balls. Learn More -
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
$24.95The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains. Learn More -
Weird Al: The Book
$29.95The undisputed king of pop-culture parody, “Weird Al” Yankovic has sold more comedy recordings than any other artist in history, receiving three Grammy Awards (and 14 nominations) in the process. Learn More -
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division (hardcover)
$27.99Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of alternative rock, they reinvented music in the post-punk era, creating a new sound—dark, hypnotic, and intense—that would influence U2, Morrissey, R.E.M., Radiohead, and numerous others. Learn More -
Trapped In A Scene - UK Hardcore 1985-1989
$24.95The underground hardcore scene of the mid-late Eighties was UK punk rock's last significant creative gasp. Learn More -
Town Of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery Of Robert Pollard
$29.99Robert Pollard is the Dayton, Ohio singer-songwriter, who was the leader and creative force behind the legendary indie rock group Guided by Voices, one of the most influential bands of its generation. Learn More -
Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83
$29.95Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979. Major fanatics of the new punk happenings in the late 70s, TV and DS set out to chronicle, lambaste, ridicule, and heap praise on all they arbitrarily loved or hated in the music communities in the US and abroad. Learn More -
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
$25.99If you were a fan of popular music in the 1960s and early ’70s, you were a fan of the Wrecking Crew—whether you knew it or not. Learn More
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