Music

Anna Doble Hardcover | 16.3 x 3 x 24.2 cm | 304 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 9781788709484 It is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North Yorkshire, fifteen-year-old Anna sits on the carpet immersed in the pages of Smash Hits, listening to...

Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.54 x 33.66 cm | 187 pp Rare Bird Books | 2023 | 9781644282496 This wonderful body of photographs was created by Syd Shelton for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For Shelton, this work...

Tom Service Hardcover | 13.5 x 2.2 x 21.6 cm | 320 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571342952 Based on his critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 3 programme The Listening Service, in which Tom Service takes an idea on an ear-opening and mind-expanding walk through...

Darryl W. Bullock Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.56 x 23.5 cm | 368 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781913172527  This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from...

Sean Latham Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm | 370 pp Cambridge University Press | 2021 | 9781108499514  Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has...

Robby Krieger Softcover | 13 x 4.2 x 19.6 cm | 432 pp White Rabbit | 2022 | 9781474624190 Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task....

Tom Gatti Softcover | 12.7 x 1.7 x 19.7 cm | 224 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781526625762  In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben...

Paul Bergen Hardcover | 28.19 x 2.79 x 34.29 cm | 256 pp teNeues | 2022 | 9783961714124 This is the most comprehensive and exhaustive collection of pictures of the music of the 1990s. David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, Oasis, Pete Doherty, Phil Collins, Prince, Motörhead...

Peter Coffin Hardcover | 22.6 x 1.6 x 31.2 cm | 168 pp Anthology Editions | 2018 | 9781944860172 Artist Peter Coffin began his work with the iconic designs of LA’s Colby Poster Printing Company in 2008. Over the years, he solicited artists and friends...

Hardcover | 13.97 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm | 191 pp Faber & Faber | 2020 | 9780571360512 The life's work of two of British music's most unique and timeless artists, with an introduction by Jarvis Cocker.Selected and arranged by the authors themselves, and featuring an...

Hardcover | 14.7 x 1.8 x 22.1 cm | 144 pp Faber & Faber | 2023 | 9780571378395 'There is something quite moving about seeing the lyrics of these fifty-six songs collected and assembled this way. You can see the evolution of the minds...

Hardcover | 13.97 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm | 240 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571377596 Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Joan Armatrading for...

Hardcover | 13.97 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm | 272 pp Faber & Faber | 2020 | 9780571353897 Keep 'Er Lit is the second volume of Van Morrison's collected lyrics containing one hundred and twenty songs from across his storied career. It contains love songs, work...

Tom Breihan  Hardcover | 16.26 x 3.94 x 23.75 cm | 352 pp Hachette | 2023 | 9780306826535 When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones" - a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in...

Hardcover | 20.32 x 3.3 x 25.4 cm | 112 pp Liverpool University Press | 2008 | 9781846311680 Mark NcNulty has documented the Liverpool music scene in the city and its proliferation worldwide. With over 100 photographs from his portfolio Pop Cultured celebrates a...

Nicole Trevillian Softcover | 15.24 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 112 pp Edizioni Charta | 2009 | 9788881587513 Nicole Trevillan's London Club is a series of fashion photographs from influential new-music nightclubs in London between 2000 and 2010. The club night Trash, founded in...

Patrick Potter Hardcover | 16.5 x 22 cm | 192 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2018 | 9781908211590 Sometime around the beginning of the 1960’s, a number of stars aligned. A small but fanatical group of young men and women, mostly no more than...

Peter Gravelle Hardcover | 23 x 2.3 x 29.1 cm | 216 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2016 | 9781908211415 From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, Peter Gravelle, the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows of punk rock,...

Softcover | 15.49 x 1.78 x 21.59 cm | 240 pp Kehrer | 2003 | 9783933257963  Being a young photographer, Sandra Mann decided to portray her own generation, or rather her generation's nightlife. She captures the nightly scenes in clubs and discotheques not only...

Kathryn Libin & Petr Slouka Softcover | 16.64 x 0.74 x 19 cm | 80 pp Scala | 2019 | 9781785512780 The personal affinities and tastes of these aristocratic amateurs are reflected in such musical treasures as 18th-century lute tablatures; oratorios and operas in manuscript...