Music

Luke Haines Hardcover | 14.5 x 2.9 x 22.6 cm | 320 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 9781788709347 Musician and author Luke Haines embarks on an odyssey through the ages, exploring how the 'freaks' infiltrated modern culture - and almost won the rock...

Kelefa Sanneh Hardcover | 16.2 x 4.3 x 24 cm | 496 pp Cannongate | 2021 | 9780525559597 Major Labels is an epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that...

Softcover | 21.49 x 0.91 x 25.48 cm | 128 pp Scala | 2011 | 9781857596977 The explosion of rap music and the street culture from which it sprang have had an indelible influence on our lifestyle today. We see it in our language,...

Lenny Kaye Softcover | 12.6 x 3.2 x 19.6 cm | 528 pp White Rabbit | 2023 | 9781474615099 Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and...

Hardcover | 24.89 x 2.29 x 34.29 cm | 192 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500519356  The first visually led exploration of androgyny, the combination of female and male characteristics, from representations in antiquity to its current prevalence in the fashion world...

Barry Miles Hardcover | 15.24 x 2.22 x 22.86 cm | 240 pp Abrams | 2016 | 9781419722219 Rare & Collectible A revealing history of the Beatles' experimental record label, as told by the label's manager, Barry Miles. In August 1968, the Beatles launched their...

Dominic Dromgoole Softcover | 13.34 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm | 384 pp Profile Books | 2023 | 9781788166812 Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history's seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture - and allow...

Jocelyn Fiske Hardcover | 30.71 x 2.97 x 30.76 cm | 320 pp Titan Books | 2022 | 9781789099508 A ‘cuckoo in the photographer’s pit’, who was only there thanks to modifying her father’s press pass, Jocelyn Fiske captured Roxy Music on stage between 1973...

Jeffrey Boakye & Ngade Smart Hardcover | 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm | 206 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571366484 Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy . . . Groundbreaking musicians whose songs have changed the world. But how? This exhilarating...

Lou Reed Hardcover | 19 x 1.2 x 25.4 cm | 80 pp Anthology Editions | 2018 | 9781944860219 In August of 1970, 28-year-old Lou Reed quit the Velvet Underground, moved home to Long Island, New York, and embarked on a fascinating alternate creative path:...

Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 240 pp Fantagraphics Books | 2015 | 9781606997864 Rare & Collectable Throughout Les McCann’s incredible jazz career, he took hundreds of photos―at clubs, studios, and festivals around the world―and documented the vibrant cultural life of...

Greg Graffin Hardcover | 16.13 x 3.81 x 24 cm | 368 pp Hachette | 2022 | 9780306924583 Greg Graffin (b. 1964) is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as "America's most significant punk band." Since its inception in Los Angeles...

Ray Raghunath Cappo Hardcover | 15.24 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm | 368 pp Insight Editions | 2024 | 9781647228682 Ray Cappo (b.1966) was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City...

Kembrew McLeod Hardcover | 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 368 pp Harry N. Abrams | 2018 | 9781419732522 In the 1960s and early 1970s, the inhabitants of a small, roughly one-square-mile area of lower Manhattan were smashing the status quo of music, art, film, performance, and...

Johnnie Johnstone & Stewart Lee Softcover | 15.24 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm | 288 pp Jawbone | 2024 | 9781916829046 Josef K are the great lost post-punk band. Taking their name from the haunted protagonist of Franz Kafka's existentialist novel The Trial, they posed...

Bill Peel Softcover | 12.95 x 1.52 x 19.81 cm | 200 pp Repeater Books | 2023 |  9781914420368 A radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music, Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black...

Hardcover | 13.4 x 4 x 18.2 cm | 400 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781526650986 In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known...

John Hudson Softcover | 14 x 1 x 21.5 cm | 172 pp Bristol Books | 2012 | 9781909446014 Adge Cutler died on his way home from a gig in 1974 at a time when a major TV breakthrough was within his grasp but...

Ian Preece Softcover | 15.88 x 5.33 x 23.5 cm | 720pp Onmibus Press | 2020 | 9781785586309 If there's a cultural artefact capable of withstanding the vagaries and fickleness of the digital age as well as the printed book, it's the vinyl record... In...

Kate Molleson Hardcover | 15.3 x 2.6 x 23.4 cm | 368 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571363223  A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the...