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Channel Kindness by Lady Gaga
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
Wired For Sound: the Stebbing History of NZ Music by Grant Gillanders, Robyn Welsh
$89.99 NZD
Category: Music
For the first time ever, discover the story behind the Stebbing recording legacy. From pioneering violins and 78 records, to the singers, songwriters, engineers and producers who have graced Stebbing's famous three recording studios. Come inside the mid-1960s Galaxie nightclub, the evolution of the Zodi ...Show more
American Utopia by David Byrne; Maira Kalman
$52.99 NZD
Category: Music
A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne's Am ...Show more
One Last Song - Conversations on Life, Death, and Music by Mike Ayers; Studio Studio Muti (Illustrator); Shea Serrano (Contribution by); Jim James (Foreword by)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
An ironically upbeat book that asks some of today's most inimitable musicians which song they would choose to be the last one they ever hear If you could choose the last song you'd hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your wedd ...Show more
Sweet Dreams - The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth. One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era had a huge influence on the growth of print and bro ...Show more
Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs - The Story Behind Every Track by Philippe Margotin; Jean-Michel Guesdon
$80.00 NZD
Category: Music
The most in-depth exploration of Springsteen's songs ever written.The latest book in the bestselling All the Songs series, this is the most in-depth exploration of Springsteen's songs ever written.Spanning nearly 50 years of albums, EPs, B-sides, and more, read the full story behind every single song th ...Show more
The Rolling Stones in the Beginning - With Unseen Images by Bent Rej
$80.00 NZD
Category: Music
A unique portrait of a band on the brink of superstardom.From March 1965 to May 1966, photographer Bent Rej enjoyed unparalleled access to the Rolling Stones as one of the trusted inner circle, accompanying the band on its first full European outing: the Satisfaction tour. The Rolling Stones In the ...Show more
Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America by David Hepworth
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island that had recently fallen on hard times. The resulting ...Show more
Lit Up Inside - Selected Lyrics of Van Morrison by Van Morrison
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music
Lit Up Inside contains the lyrics of about one third of the songs that Van Morrison has written over his 50 year career. In this representative selection from the work of one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of the last century, the reader will find examples of all the features of the wor ...Show more
Cult Musicians - 50 Progressive Performers You Need to Know by Robert Dimery; Kristelle Rodeia (Illustrator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Cult Figures Ser.
Cult Musicians handpicks 50 notable figures from the modern world of music and explores the creative genius that earned them the cult label, while celebrating the works that made their names. What makes a cult musician? Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically div ...Show more
Sing The Story of Choral Music in Aotearoa by Guy Jansen
$59.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealanders love to sing together. Thousands of us sing in hundreds of choirsthroughout the country, making it our most popular and participated in performing art. Most of us have sung in school choirs, or participated in national competitions such as the Big Sing, and increasingly people are joining ...Show more
Metallica: The Stories Behind the Songs by INGHAM, CHRIS
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Stories Behind the Songs Ser.
Ingham interviews the members of Metallica to examine the stories behind the bestselling band's songs.
