Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin by Matt Mahurin; Tom Waits (Foreword by)
$80.00 AUD
Category: Music
A collection of wildly inventive portraits of musician Tom Waits, the result of a 30-year collaboration with photographer and illustrator Matt MahurinThis visually arresting book is a testament to the unique collaboration, going back three decades, between the photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin a ...Show more
The Science of Music: How Technology Has Shaped the Evolution of an Art Form by Andrew May
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Hot Science Ser.
Music is shaped by the science of sound. How can music - an artform - have anything to do with science? Yet there are myriad ways in which the two are intertwined, from the basics of music theory and the design of instruments to hi-fi systems and how the brain processes music. Science writer Andrew May ...Show more
Bill Frisell Beautiful Dreamer The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music by Philip Watson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music
The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell.FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & D ...Show more
The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi by Lou Reed; Laurie Anderson (Editor)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
The Art of the Straight Line captures the energy of Lou Reed's worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. It was edited by his wife, the artist Laurie Anderson, with Stephan Berwick, Bob Currie, and Scott Richman. Lou Reed was a musician, singer, songwriter, poet, and founding member of the legendary ro ...Show more
1964: Eyes of the Storm by Paul McCartney
$140.00 AUD
Category: Music
Photographs and Reflections by Paul McCartney 'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.' In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intim ...Show more
Half Deaf, Completely Mad: The Chaotic Genius of Australia's Most Legendary Music Producer by Tony Cohen, John Olson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
The music and mayhem behind the seminal sounds of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Models, Hunters & Collectors, The Saints, The Go-Betweens, Cold Chisel, The Cruel Sea and so many more'. The most obsessive, single-minded character I've ever seen, outside of the mirror' - Nick Cave. 'I first met Nic ...Show more
Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Terrific... Very funny' Guardian What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawe ...Show more
Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
In 1968, the 19 year-old Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK's hippest record label, Island. Three years later, however - having made ...Show more
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse) by Leah Broad
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestr ...Show more
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon: The Official 50th Anniversary Photobook by Pink Floyd
$90.00 AUD
Category: Music
March 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. Designed by Pentagram to high specifications, this official book commemorating the band and the album will be a covetable package for the legions of Floyd fans out there--new and old. This date will also see ...Show more
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * INCLUDED IN AUDIBLE'S BEST OF THE YEAR LISTSo, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake ...Show more
Music Is History by Questlove
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
New York Times bestselling Music Is History combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years—now in paperback Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes, whether investig ...Show more