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The definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock.Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds tells the tale of what happened next: the underground explosion of noisepop, shoegaze, slacker rock and grunge that reverberated th...

A revised and expanded edition of the long out-of-print history of Factory Records, the legendary record label that launched Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays. Featuring a foreword by Jon Savage."Definitive and comprehensive, this is the actual story of Factory Records" —Peter SavilleIn 1...

Jodie Harsh arrived in London aged fifteen in 2001, heading straight off the train from Canterbury to her first club night at the Astoria. Intoxicated by this initial taste of city nightlife, she didn't leave the party for years, falling in with the right wrong people and exploring the sides of Lond...

When, how, where, does a mark become a musical note?What alchemy occurs to transform a symbol into sound: a song; a symphony; a chorus?Music is interwoven into the fabric of our lives. We listen to it, some of us play it, but throughout history, humans have also attempted to capture it visually, fro...

The rock legend tells the story of his wild ride with Martin Scorsese - as friends, adventure-seekers, and boundary-pushing collaborators - with all the heart of his New York Times bestselling memoir TestimonyFor four decades, Robbie Robertson produced music for Martin Scorsese's films, a relationsh...

'We made what seemed like an impossible dream come true' Paul McCartneyThis is the story, in their own words, of a band that came to define a generation. Wings- The Story of a Band on the Run tells the madcap history of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their humble beginnings in the ea...

A panoramic exploration of the ways in which pop and rock were transformed by the pioneering visionaries of classical music.The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to Th...

A Financial Times, Irish Times, Mojo and Uncut Book of the Year‘I doubt I’ll ever read a better account of the history and sociology of popular music than this one.'' Brian Eno''Boyd’s book is the Proust of music history – à la recherche of much music lost, here regained and affirmed in our...

The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist's life, career, and eventual immortality. Packed with behind-the-scenes content, for fans of hip-hop biographies like Dilla Time.A Rough Trade and Clash Book of the Year'Excellent, detailed. Hip-hop writer SH Fern...

On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band, capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York City and showing how a group of art students brought fringe culture to rock’s mainstream, forever cha...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popu...

A compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and reproduces, music from other worlds. Here you'll find tunes hummed, strummed, and sung by spirits, sprites, and...

The Ring is one of the most epic and compelling stories of the nineteenth century, created by a composer who was, alongside Dickens, Tolstoy and Victor-Hugo, also one of the century’s master storytellers. But the story of how Wagner created the work is one full of intrigue and triumphs against unl...

On December 31, 2020, the world was shocked to learn about the death of hip-hop legend MF DOOM. Born in London and raised in the suburban enclave of Long Beach, New York, Daniel Dumile Jr.'s love of cartoons and comic books would soon turn him into one of hip-hop's most enigmatic, prolific, and infl...

‘Always up close and personal, always tenacious and informed by deep background, and always vivid and veracious’ The TimesThe greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our...

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other inmates, forced labourers who left...

'Fabulous. What a ghost story! A ripping read.' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of London Orbital'Vividly celebrates Bowie as not just a chameleonic visionary, but a nomadic one, a creature informed by place and circumstance" STUART MACONIEBOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE.Following open heart surgery, poet and writer...

The joyous and electric, Women's Prize for Non-Fiction-longlisted memoir from beloved music icon Neneh CherryA SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, UNCUT AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut- gold br...

After the publication of Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, his long awaited first original book, cult critic Ian Penman with I Am Called Erik Satie I Like Everyone Else, a three-part study of the composer and pianist.Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époqu...

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition.At the end of 1994, musician, producer and artist Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell through quickly. Wh...

The extraordinary true story of intertwined lives that lies behind Handel's Messiah, the most performed piece of classical music ever writtenLondon - Dublin, 1741-42.An actress mired in scandal plans her escape from an abusive husband.A penniless sea captain sets out to rescue the city's abandoned i...

The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and women's rights.'Don't let them tame you!' ISADORA DUNCANThe story of modern dance is a story of subversion - of forms challenged and hierarchies toppled in the pursu...

The story of the love and jealousy between two geniuses behind The Beatles, who merged their souls and multiplied their talents to produce one of the greatest bodies of creative work in history.'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN'Ian...