GENERAL MUSIC
The place to find titles about artists or records that don't fit into the other categories.
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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 -
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 -
The Small Stakes: Music Posters
$24.95Renowned graphic artist Jason Munn—the one-man operation behind the studio The Small Stakes—is a leader in modern-day music poster design. Learn More -
The Overrated Book: The Only Book You'll Ever Need
$24.95CHUNKLET MAGAZINE - the attackers of the high-wall fortress known as pop culture - tears all precious articles of faith to shreds in THE OVERRATED BOOK! Learn More -
The Grammar of Rock: Art and Artlessness in 20th Century Pop Lyrics
$28.99National Book Award nominee, critic and one of America’s least compromising satirists, Alexander Theroux takes a comprehensive look at the colorful language of pop lyrics and the realm of rock music in general in The Grammar of Rock: silly song titles; maddening instrumentals; shrieking divas; clunker lines; the worst (and best) songs ever written; geniuses of the art; movie stars who should never have raised their voice in song but who were too shameless to refuse a mic; and the excesses of awful Christmas recordings. Learn More -
The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches
$24.95Impish yet informative - a guide to the days the music died. Learn More -
The Disciples
$29.95Between 2004 and 2007, James Mollison attended pop concerts across Europe and the USA with a mobile photography studio, inviting fans of each music star or band to pose for their portrait outside the gig. Learn More -
Swag 2: Rock Posters of the '90s and Beyond
$29.95Crackling with sexual tension, comic flourishes, macabre drama, and science fiction cliches, rock posters are as vibrant and varied as the music they celebrate - and more popular today than ever. Learn More -
Side B: The Music Lover's Graphic Novel
$22.99Created by veteran and ingenue artists alike, Side B contains over 200 pages of lost lovers, rocking out, spirit guides, ghosts, and dinosaurs - it's like an action adventure comic for the music lover in all of us. Learn More -
Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc.
$24.99If Howard Kaylan had sung only one song, the Turtles' 1967 No. 1 smash hit "Happy Together," his place in rock-and-roll history would still be secure. But that recording, named in 1999 by BMI as one of the top 50 songs of the 20th century, with over five million radio plays, is only the tip of a rather eye-opening iceberg. Learn More
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