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Lowside of the Road
A Life of Tom Waits
Written by Barney Hoskyns
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $21.00
With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a place for... Read more >
A Life of Tom Waits
Written by Barney Hoskyns
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $21.00
With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a place for... Read more >
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We Got the Neutron Bomb
The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
Written by Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and musicians who were there.
“California was wide-open sex—no condoms... Read more >
The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
Written by Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $16.00
Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and musicians who were there.
“California was wide-open sex—no condoms... Read more >
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Johannes Brahms
A Biography
Written by Jan Swafford
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $21.00
A New York Times Notable Book
"This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to...become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms."--The Plain Dealer
Judicious, compassionate, and full of insight into Brahms's human complexity as well as his music, Johannes Brahms is an indispensable biography.
Proclaimed the new messiah of Romanticism by Robert... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Jan Swafford
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: December 7, 1999
Price: $21.00
A New York Times Notable Book
"This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to...become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms."--The Plain Dealer
Judicious, compassionate, and full of insight into Brahms's human complexity as well as his music, Johannes Brahms is an indispensable biography.
Proclaimed the new messiah of Romanticism by Robert... Read more >
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Journey of a Thousand Miles
My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.00
“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >
My Story
Written by Lang Lang and David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $16.00
“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as... Read more >
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Jazz
A History of America's Music
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Read by LeVar Burton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $14.95
The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball.
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New... Read more >
A History of America's Music
Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Read by LeVar Burton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 7, 2000
Price: $14.95
The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible for
The Civil War and Baseball.
Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music—jazz. Born in the black community of turn-of-the-century New... Read more >
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A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Written by Suze Rotolo
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $14.95
A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion... Read more >
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Written by Suze Rotolo
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $14.95
A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion... Read more >
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Lady Sings the Blues the 50th Anniversary Edition
Written by Billie Holiday and William Dufty
Foreword by David Ritz
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
With photos
Originally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s unforgettable and timeless memoir. Updated with an insightful introduction and a revised discography, both written by celebrated music writer David Ritz.
Lady Sings the Blues is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of... Read more >
Written by Billie Holiday and William Dufty
Foreword by David Ritz
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
With photos
Originally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s unforgettable and timeless memoir. Updated with an insightful introduction and a revised discography, both written by celebrated music writer David Ritz.
Lady Sings the Blues is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Why Mahler?
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $16.00
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Written by Norman Lebrecht
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $16.00
Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does?
Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler’s every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht...
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The Portable Henry Rollins
Written by Henry Rollins
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $16.99
Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and discipline, Henry Rollins has transformed himself from an L.A. punk rocker into a universal soldier. His... Read more >
Written by Henry Rollins
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $16.99
Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and discipline, Henry Rollins has transformed himself from an L.A. punk rocker into a universal soldier. His... Read more >
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This Business of Music Marketing and Promotion
A Practical Guide to Creating a Completely Intergrated Marketing and E-Marketing Campaign
Written by Tad Lathrop
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $24.95
The maxim in the music industry has always been “You can’t make it on talent alone,” and with This Business of Music Marketing & Promotion, you don’t have to.
In language that is simple and direct, author Tad Lathrop details promotional skills, publicity plans, royalty guidelines, and more, all supported by real-life... Read more >
A Practical Guide to Creating a Completely Intergrated Marketing and E-Marketing Campaign
Written by Tad Lathrop
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $24.95
The maxim in the music industry has always been “You can’t make it on talent alone,” and with This Business of Music Marketing & Promotion, you don’t have to.
In language that is simple and direct, author Tad Lathrop details promotional skills, publicity plans, royalty guidelines, and more, all supported by real-life... Read more >
