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Acid for the Children: A Memoir

Flea. · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Iconic bassist and co-founder of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating life story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star.
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Blood: A Memoir

Allison Moorer · Da Capo Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter's haunting, lyrical memoir, sharing the story of an unthinkable act of violence and ultimate healing through art

1986, Mobile, Alabama. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front...
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Blue: The Color of Noise

Steve Aoki · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The music. The mix. His life.

"Sometimes I think my whole life can be seen through shades of blue..." -- Steve Aoki

Blue is the remarkable story -- in pictures and words -- of Steve Aoki, the superstar DJ/producer who started his career as a vegan straightedge...

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For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening

John Mauceri · Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience?

A protégé...
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JAY-Z: Made in America

Michael Eric Dyson · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture but also hints at how we can best move forward." -- Questlove


JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson's decade of teaching...

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Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim

Rob Kapilow · Liveright
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow." -- Kansas City Star

Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow,...

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Me

Elton John · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the upcoming film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful...

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Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings

Joni Mitchell · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time

In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted...
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Music: A Subversive History

Ted Gioia · Basic Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A preeminent music historian and critic presents a global history of music from the bottom up
Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the mainstream assimilators who borrowed innovations, diluted...
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The Beatles from A to Zed: An Alphabetical Mystery Tour

Peter Asher · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A legendary record producer and performer takes readers on an alphabetical journey of insights into the music of the Beatles and individual reminiscences of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

Peter Asher met the Beatles in the spring of 1963, the start of a lifelong association with...

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The Wild Tchoupitoulas' The Wild Tchoupitoulas

Bryan Wagner · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a definitive expression of the modern New Orleans sound. From "Hey Pocky A-Way" to "Big Chief Got a Golden Crown," the album draws on carnival traditions stretching back a century, adapting songs from the Mardi Gras Indians. Music chanted in the streets...
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Birth of Violence

Chelsea Wolfe
Format: CD(Digi-Pak / with Booklet)


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Finding God Before God Finds Me

Bad Omens · Sumerian Records
Format: Audio CD

- The Band will be on "The Simulation Tour" under direct support of Born Of Osiris, starting 7/19. - For Fans Of: Asking Alexandria, Bring Me The Horizon, Ice Nine Kills
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