13 Top music books like Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between by Michael Tau

Cover of Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between by Michael Tau

Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between

By: Michael Tau

3.77

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Expand your aural and sensory experiences with Extreme Music. An exploration of tomorrow’s sounds (…

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Cover of How Music Works by David Byrne

1. How Music Works

By: David Byrne

4.00

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more

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"Performers try harder."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"You might say that the universe plays the blues."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?"

-David Byrne, How Music Works

Cover of Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark

2. Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.18

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

The groundbreaking Parker books are adapted for the first time as a series of graphic novels by leg… read more

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Cover of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-la Janisse

3. House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

By: Kier-la Janisse

4.44

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploi… read more

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"The truth, and the threat it poses, can be too overwhelming to bear, and for many women in the aftermath of the sexual revolution, the truth was that their experiences were being dismissed by the men…"

-Kier-la Janisse, House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Cover of Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen by David  Stubbs

4. Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen

By: David Stubbs

3.22

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Tate is the most popular tourist attraction in Europe. Conceptual artists like Tracy Emin and D… read more

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Cover of Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen by Brian Masters

5. Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen

By: Brian Masters

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

On February 9th 1983 Dennis Nilsen was arrested at his Muswell Hill home, after human remains had b… read more

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Cover of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1) by Alan             Moore, Kevin O'Neill

6. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, #1)

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

3.42

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Alan Moore's familiar cast of Victorian literary characters enters the brave new world of the 20th … read more

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Cover of A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17) by Charles   Williams

7. A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17)

By: Charles Williams

3.20

Format: 144 pages,

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8. The Painted Bird

By: Jerzy Kosiński

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1965, The Painted Birdestablished Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure… read more

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9. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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10. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

11. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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12. Serotonin

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more

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"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

13. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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14. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Cover of Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

15. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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16. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

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Cover of Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager

17. Burn You the Fuck Alive

By: B.R. Yeager

4.01

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

She asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch th… read more

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18. 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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19. Gone to the Wolves

By: John Wray

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author John Wray dives deep into the wild, risky world of heavy metal in the 1980… read more

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Cover of High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters

20. 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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Cover of Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland

21. Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records

By: Jim Ruland

4.03

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker D… read more

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Cover of A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight Into Murderer's Row: a Memoir by Eugene S. Robinson

22. A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight Into Murderer's Row: a Memoir

By: Eugene S. Robinson

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A rollicking no-holds barred memoir from journalist and musician Eugene S. Robinson that takes read… read more

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Cover of Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion by Steve Turner

23. Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion

By: Steve Turner

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene—from backyard ska… read more

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Cover of Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil by Nick Soulsby

24. Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil

By: Nick Soulsby

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Core members of the legendary British experimental band Coil tell its story in the present-tense, a… read more

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Cover of Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century by Kate Molleson

25. Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century

By: Kate Molleson

4.38

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundament… read more

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Cover of Conform To Deform: The Weird & Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare by Wesley Doyle

26. Conform To Deform: The Weird & Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare

By: Wesley Doyle

4.18

Format: 665 pages, Kindle Edition

The rise and fall of Some Bizzare—the label that introduced the world to Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, a… read more

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Cover of Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb by Kenneth Goldsmith

27. Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb

By: Kenneth Goldsmith

4.29

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard… read more

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Cover of Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between by Michael Tau

28. Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between

By: Michael Tau

3.77

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Expand your aural and sensory experiences with Extreme Music. An exploration of tomorrow’s sounds (… read more

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Cover of Dancing to the Drum Machine: How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World by Dan LeRoy

29. Dancing to the Drum Machine: How Electronic Percussion Conquered the World

By: Dan LeRoy

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Dancing to the Drum Machine is a never-before-attempted history of what is perhaps the most controv… read more

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Cover of On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement by Kerry O'Brien

30. On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement

By: Kerry O'Brien

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition

A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who … read more

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Cover of Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over: A Companion to the Film by Beth B by Nick Soulsby

31. Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over: A Companion to the Film by Beth B

By: Nick Soulsby

4.24

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Before #MeToo, before Riot Grrl, there was Lydia Lunch. A central figure in the No Wave scene of th… read more

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Dennis Cooper

3.79

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Troy James Weaver

4.26

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3.54

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