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Photographed by Ruvan Wijesooriya
Introduction by James Murphy

Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $29.95

For the past decade, downtown-New York indie dance music innovation could be summed up in three letters: LCD. The brainchild of frontman James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem grew from a solo project into one of the most highly regarded live bands in contemporary music.

In 2011, at the height of their career, LCD... Read more >

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition
Complete Chart Information about America's Most Popular Songs and Artists, 1955-2009
Written by Joel Whitburn

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $24.99

The Essential Reference Guide to America’s Most Popular Songs and Artists Spanning More than Fifty Years of Music
 
Beginning with Bill Haley & His Comets’ seminal “Rock Around the Clock” all the way up to Lady Gaga and her glammed-out “Poker face,” this updated and unparalleled resource contains the most complete chart... Read more >

Love Rock Revolution
K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
Written by Mark Baumgarten

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $17.95

Punk isn't a sound--it's an idea! In its history, K Records has fostered some of independent music's greatest artists, including Bikini Kill, Beat Happening, Built to Spill, Beck, Modest Mouse, and the Gossip. In 1982, K Records released its first cassette and put its own spin on punk's defiant manifesto: You... Read more >

Love Rock Revolution
K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
Written by Mark Baumgarten

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $17.95

Punk isn't a sound--it's an idea! In its history, K Records has fostered some of independent music's greatest artists, including Bikini Kill, Beat Happening, Built to Spill, Beck, Modest Mouse, and the Gossip. In 1982, K Records released its first cassette and put its own spin on punk's defiant manifesto: You... Read more >

Everybody Loves Our Town
An Oral History of Grunge
Written by Mark Yarm

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $15.00

A Time Magazine Best Book of 2011, Featuring Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Mudhoney and more!

Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the...

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Frank
The Voice
Written by James Kaplan

Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $19.95

Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma.  Now James Kaplan brings deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable voice, from Sinatra’s...

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Le Freak
An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
Written by Nile Rodgers

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $27.00

NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 10 ROCK MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME BY ROLLING STONE
 
From Chic to Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers is the creative force behind some of the biggest hits ever recorded. Here is the story of how global pop’s greatest genius transformed his own dramatic life into the... Read more >

Le Freak
An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
Written by Nile Rodgers

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.99

NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 10 ROCK MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME BY ROLLING STONE
 
From Chic to Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers is the creative force behind some of the biggest hits ever recorded. Here is the story of how global pop’s greatest genius transformed his own dramatic life into the... Read more >

Everybody Loves Our Town
An Oral History of Grunge
Written by Mark Yarm

Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $13.99

Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the center of it all.
 
In 1986, fledgling Seattle label C/Z Records released Deep Six, a compilation featuring a...

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

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2010
Price: $11.99

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 >

A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers

Written by Will Friedwald

Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $24.99

Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland to lesser-known artists like Jeri Southern...

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A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers

Written by Will Friedwald

Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $45.00

Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland to lesser-known artists like Jeri Southern...

Read more >

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition
Complete Chart Information about America's Most Popular Songs and Artists, 1955-2009
Written by Joel Whitburn

Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $35.00

The Essential Reference Guide to America’s Most Popular Songs and Artists Spanning More than Fifty Years of Music
 
Beginning with Bill Haley & His Comets’ seminal “Rock Around the Clock” all the way up to Lady Gaga and her glammed-out “Poker face,” this updated and unparalleled resource contains the most complete chart... Read more >

Man in the Mirror
Michael Jackson
Text by Susan Blond
Photographed by Ron Galella
Introduction by Brooke Shields

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $49.95

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, was a superstar of unprecedented and epic proportions, and is still the bestselling recording artist of all time.

An icon raised in the spotlight, but ever reclusive and terribly shy, Jackson was the ideal subject for paparazzo extraordinaire Ron Galella, the nation’s most famous celebrity photojournalist. Galella shot Michael from... Read more >

Motown
Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Written by Gerald Posner

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $13.99

In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters... Read more >

Pop Princesses

Written by Beth Peters

Format: eBook, 200 pages
On Sale: December 24, 2008
Price: $11.99

THE GIRL'S CLUB

They're young, they're beautiful, and they're changing the face of pop music with their dazzling talent and style!

Christina Aguilera: This GENIE IN A BOTTLE is making all her wishes come true!
Destiny's Child: THE WRITING'S ON THE WALL!  With one Grammy nomination already, this group is headed for great things.
Jessica Simpson... Read more >

Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Written by Tori Amos and Ann Powers

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $11.99

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 >

The House That George Built
With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty
Written by Wilfrid Sheed

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $16.00

From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter... Read more >

The House That George Built
With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty
Written by Wilfrid Sheed

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $13.99

From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter... Read more >

Touch Me I'm Sick
(pH Classic)
Text by Jennie Boddy
Photographed by Charles Peterson
Introduction by Eddie Vedder

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Price: $18.00

Poised at the epicenter of an explosive underground scene, photographer Charles Peterson witnessed the birth of a brash new era of music that grabbed the world by its throat and refused to let go. Grunge, the bastard child of 60s garage and 70s punk, revived the original, gritty spirit of rock... 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 >

Motown
Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Written by Gerald Posner

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $15.95

In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters... 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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Young Bob
John Cohen's Early Photographs of Bob Dylan
Photographed by John Cohen

Format: Hardcover, 72 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2003
Price: $24.95

In 1962, a young John Cohen and the young songwriter Bob Dylan went to Cohen's East Village loft and rooftop for a few hours to make some photos in "a moment of invention…without planning, and with the freedom that comes from uncertainty," recalls Cohen. The never-before-published, black-and-white photographs in Young Bob... Read more >

Touch Me I'm Sick

Text by Jennie Boddy
Photographed by Charles Peterson
Introduction by Eddie Vedder

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $40.00

Poised at the epicenter of an explosive underground scene, photographer Charles Peterson witnessed the birth of a brash new era of music that grabbed the world by its throat and refused to let go. Grunge, the bastard child of 60s garage and 70s punk, revived the original, gritty spirit of rock... Read more >