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The Definitive Guitar Handbook (2017 Updated) by Rusty Cutchin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
This best-selling one-stop resource is packed with practical advice on how to tackle the basics, such as simple chords and finger-picking, right through to more complex power chords, slurs, bends and slides. It also includes tips on stagecraft and performing live, and step-by-step guitar maintenance. Th ...Show more
Australia Rocks: Remembering the Music of the 1950s to 1990 by Lucy Desoto
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music
Australian rock music has a rich history of performers and bands that have created not just the soundtrack for Australian lives but have also shaped the international music scene. In the early days of the 1950s and '60s, Australian rock saw performers like Johnny O'Keefe and The Easybeats. The 1970s saw ...Show more
Kiwi Ukulele: The New Zealand Ukulele Companion by Mike Dickison
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
This book tells a new ukulele player everything he or she needs to get started, and more: selecting and tuning an instrument, how to hold a ukulele, fingerings for all the chords you'll ever need, fancy strums, how to arrange your favorite songs for the ukulele, and tips for playing it in groups and in ...Show more
The Clash - All the Albums, All the Songs by Martin Popoff
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Formed in London in 1976 by Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, and Paul Simonon at the outset of that city's punk rock boom, The Clash went on to outlast their peers and create some of the most influential albums in rock 'n' roll--not just punk--even breaching the mainstream in 1982 and earning the title "The On ...Show more
Music from Big Pink 33 1/3 by John Niven
$21.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
"Music From Big Pink" is a factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of twenty-three-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and h ...Show more
Pink Floyd - Album by Album by Martin Popoff
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Album by Album Ser.
With more than a quarter billion albums sold, Pink Floyd stands among the all-time giants of rock. This beautifully produced look back at Pink Floyd's fifteen studio releases features entertaining, in-depth panel discussions with rock journalists and musicians moderated by author Martin Popoff. The resu ...Show more
Comparing Notes - How We Make Sense of Music by Adam Ockelford
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
How does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn't) music? We are all instinctively musical, but why? Adam Ockelford has the answers. A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond intuitively to music. Comparing Notes explores what music is, wh ...Show more
1965: the Most Revolutionary Year in Music by Andrew Grant Jackson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
Fifty years ago, friendly rivalry between musicians turned 1965 into the most ground-breaking year in music history. It was the year rock and roll evolved into the premier art form of its time and accelerated the drive for personal freedom throughout the Western world. The feedback loop between the arti ...Show more
Listen to This by Alex Ross
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its titl ...Show more
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel GlaserThe late Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.Musicophilia is no different. In this breathtaking work, Sacks examines the power ...Show more
Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
If ever there were Satanic Majesties of rock their name was Led Zeppelin. The band that out-sold the Rolling Stones and made Robert Johnson's deals with the devil look like a playground game of conkers were as high, inflated and glorified as their namesake. In Stephen Davis's scorching account of their ...Show more
Jimmy Page by Chris Salewicz
$36.99 NZD
Category: Music
Founder of one of the most influential and successful rock bands of all time, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has nevertheless remained an enigma. In this definitive and comprehensive biography of his life so far, Chris Salewicz draws on his own interviews with Page and those closest around ...Show more
