Music:

Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Written by Tori Amos and Ann Powers

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95

I choose to fight my battles through my music . . . I was born a feminist. And then at age five, when my strict Christian grandmother punished me, I realized, I’m not penetrating here. I’m just pissing people off. So I had to find another way to penetrate. I had... Read more >

Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits, 4th Edition

Written by Fred Bronson

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $24.95

Up-to-the-minute information on Billboard's hottest hits! Back in a fully revised and updated fourth edition with eighty extra all-new pages, Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits is the venerated and reliable
source of information on the most popular songs of our times. Immensely entertaining, endlessly informative, and filled with fascinating facts and figures... Read more >

Pickin' Up the Pieces
The Heart and Soul of Country Rock Pioneer Richie Furay
Written by Richie Furay and Michael Roberts

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $14.99

When a young Richie Furay moved to New York hoping to make it big in folk music, God wasn’t one of his concerns. But destiny was.
Later, when he started Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young and Stephen Stills, it seemed Furay’s destiny had finally arrived. Although the band recorded only three... Read more >

Queens Reigns Supreme
Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler
Written by Ethan Brown

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2005
Price: $12.95

Based on police wiretaps and exclusive interviews with drug kingpins and hip-hop insiders, this is the untold story of how the streets and housing projects of southeast Queens took over the rap industry.

For years, rappers from Nas to Ja Rule have hero-worshipped the legendary drug dealers who dominated Queens in the... Read more >

Clubland
The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture
Written by Frank Owen

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $19.00

Outrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder.

Welcome to the decadent nineties club scene.
 
In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on Special K, a designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene.  He went...

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Lyrical Life
A Rock 'n' Roll Love Story Told in 200 Song Lyrics
Written by Casey Jones

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $9.95

Life is a Song in Funkytown!

How many song lyrics will you know?

Welcome to the hip world of Funky Town, where pop song lyrics from five decades tell the rock ’n’ roll love story of Luka and Lola. With vivid graphics and nostalgic fun, Lyrical Life takes you on a musical adventure... Read more >

The Billboard Book of Number One Hits
Updated and Expanded 5Th Edition
Written by Fred Bronson

Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $27.95

Before MTV and VH1 . . . before books with “Stories Behind the Songs” of popular recording artists, there were Fred Bronson’s stories behind the top chart hits. Now in its 5th edition, The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits once again provides the inside scoop behind every song since 1955... Read more >

Managing Artists in Pop Music
What Every Artist and Manager Must Know to Succeed
Written by Mitch Weiss and Perri Gaffney

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $19.95

Discover the real story through a “week in the life of a music manager” in this guide to successful talent management! Through entertaining, real-life stories of famous artist-manager teams, Managing Artists in Pop Music analyzes, criticizes, and details what a talent manager must know in order to become an effective advisor... Read more >

The Girls' Guide to Elvis
The Clothes, The Hair, The Women, and More!
Written by Kim Adelman

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $12.95

Can’t get enough of the King? A lively romp through all things Presley, this sassy guide covers what you really want to know about the man who continues to leave generations of females “All Shook Up.”

“It’s just like being in junior high again. This book offers the scoop on Elvis’s... Read more >

The Girls' Guide to Elvis
The Clothes, The Hair, The Women, and More!
Written by Kim Adelman

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $12.95

Can’t get enough of the King? A lively romp through all things Presley, this sassy guide covers what you really want to know about the man who continues to leave generations of females “All Shook Up.”

“It’s just like being in junior high again. This book offers the scoop on Elvis’s... Read more >

Stardust Melodies
The Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs
Written by Will Friedwald

Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2002
Price: $27.50

In Stardust Melodies, Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding.

Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song—the circumstances under which it was written and first performed—and then explores its musical and lyric content... Read more >

Army of She
Icelandic, Iconoclastic, Irrepressible Bjork
Written by Evelyn McDonnell

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $15.00

Wearing thick glasses, speaking in her thick Icelandic accent, and, well, seeming a touch thick, Bjork stormed the public consciousness in 2000 as an unlikely heroine in the experimental musical film Dancer In the Dark. Army of She is an in-depth look at the woman who first took the public stage... Read more >

Reading Lyrics
More Than 1,000 of the Century's Finest Lyrics--a Celebration of Our Greatest Songwriters, a Rediscovery of Forgotten Masters, and an Appreciation of an
Written by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball

Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: November 21, 2000
Price: $39.50

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Night Beat
A Shadow History of Rock & Roll
Written by Mikal Gilmore

Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $19.00

Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the... Read more >