Cowboy Bebop: Making the Netflix Series by Jeff Bond
69.99 NZD
Category: Music
Official companion book to the Netflix TV series featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with cast and crew. Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run f ...Show more
Sellout - The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) by Dan Ozzi
60.00 NZD
Category: Music
A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore's growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they "sell out" and find mainstream fame, or break beneath the weight of it all Punk rock found itself at a crossroads in the mid-90's. After indie favorit ...Show more
A Sound Mind - How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite Its Entire History) by Paul Morley
24.99 NZD
Category: Music
'Exhilarating' - Sunday Times'Funny and moving' - Jarvis CockerMusic critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as the most rebellious genre of all. Paul Morley had stopped being surprised by modern pop music and found himself r ...Show more
Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
32.99 NZD
Category: Music
'Excellent' - Guardian 'Hugely enjoyable' - Irish Times 'Dazzling' - LRB 'Fascinating' - New Statesman'An absolute must-read'- GQ For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones' masterful history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop and the styl ...Show more
Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life by John O'Connell
24.99 NZD
Category: Music
'What is your idea of perfect happiness?' 'Reading. ''What is the quality you most like in a man?'' The ability to return books.' Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Mada ...Show more
Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense by Ronen Givony
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
The first full-length biography of the '90s preeminent band, Pearl Jam follows the band's origins, evolution, personalities, politics, failures, triumphs, and impacts. It starts with their serendipitous founding, and the birth of grunge, in late 1991-its achievements, and myths-and continues through the ...Show more
Rock Concert: A High-Voltage History, from Elvis to Live Aid by Marc Myers
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews.
Who Killed Cock Robin?: British Folk Songs of Crime and Punishment by Stephen Sedley, Martin Carthy
39.99 NZD
Category: Music
An entertaining and enlightening compendium at the intersection of two great British folk traditions: song and encounters with the law. At the heart of traditional songs rest the concerns of ordinary people. And folk throughout the centuries have found themselves entangled with the law: abiding by it, ...Show more
Hawaiian Music and Musicians - An Illustrated History by George S. Kanahele (Editor)
150.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
John Illsley - My Life in Dire Straits by John Illsley
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The first - and only - inside story of one of the greatest bands in rock history, as told by bassist and founder member John Illsley, with a foreword by Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits filled giant stadiums around the world and sold hundreds of millions of records. Throughout the eighties they were one of t ...Show more
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney
155.00 NZD
Category: Music
'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day ...Show more
Hot Stuff: The Story of the Rolling Stones Through the Ultimate Memorabilia Collection by Matt Lee
55.00 NZD
Category: Music
Matt Lee has been collecting Rolling Stones memorabilia for more than two decades. He amassed so much that he had to move house; he now has his own private museum dedicated to Stones memorabilia and people come from all over the world to view his collection. For the first time, Hot Stuff showcases his c ...Show more