Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series)
By: Alex Pappademas
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan. Steely Dan’s songs are exercises in …
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1. Eminent Hipsters
By: Donald Fagen
3.56
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In Eminent Hipsters, musician and songwriter Donald Fagen, best known as the co-founder of the rock… read more
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2. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
By: Michael Azerrad
4.22
Format: 522 pages, Paperback
This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of… read more
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"Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spir…"-Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
3. Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)
By: Mark Lewisohn
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Tune Inis the first volume of All These Years--a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical tr… read more
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4. My Effin' Life
By: Geddy Lee
4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more
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5. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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6. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
By: James Kaplan
4.35
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more
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7. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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8. Lou Reed: The King of New York
By: Will Hermes
4.23
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more
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9. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
10. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
By: Rob Harvilla
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more
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"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
11. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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12. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
13. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more
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14. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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15. What a Fool Believes: A Memoir
By: Michael McDonald
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and evocative memoir from the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Award–winning, platinum … read more
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16. Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series)
By: Alex Pappademas
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
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17. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
By: Marc Masters
3.98
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle ch… read more
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18. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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19. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
By: Tom Breihan
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through th… read more
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20. Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
By: Marissa R. Moss
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The full and unbridled inside story of the last twenty years of country music through the lens of M… read more
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"It is a story of how country music has used its gender wars as a cover for its deep imbedded desires to preserve and weaponize that whiteness."-Marissa R. Moss, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
"This isn't just a story of sexism in music. It's a story of America. Of how misogyny and class permeate the most basic of threads. And how power supersedes decency and art in the minds and hearts of …"-Marissa R. Moss, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be
21. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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