Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

Rock out and color with the official Tenacious D coloring book - 80 pages of awesome art and epic fun that will blow your mind! "This is the greatest coloring book ever made." - Jack Black. The Tenacious D coloring book contains 80 pages...

Author: Geddy LeeISBN-10: 0063159449ISBN-13: 9780063159440Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 512Format: Paperback

A long-awaited visual memoir from a legend of popular culture, this is the first and only official book by Annie Lennox, one of the best-selling and most influential music and style icons of the last fifty years--destined to be the must-have title for music...

Want to master the intricate styles of the metal guitar legends?Struggling to break out of your comfort zone to inject fire and personality into your solos?100 Classic Metal Licks for Guitar is your ultimate guide to unlocking the techniques, styles, and creativity of metal's...

The followers - this book is not for you.The salt of the earth - this book is not for you.The worthy - this book is not for you.The ideologists - this book is not for you.Hedonists and bohemians - this book is not for...

Easy read and play. Lyrics and chords included.Author: Sal GISBN-10: 153286342XISBN-13: 9781532863424Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2016Pages: 394Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.01lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.81d

Revolution is a detailed exploration into the era of Prince's most prolific and groundbreaking music made with considerable inspiration and performed by a unique cadre of musicians he gathered and relentlessly drove to be the sonic, visual, and ideological reflection of his evolving vision....

During the 1960s--a juncture in history when music was the meeting place for the ideas of the young and questioning--Bob Dylan stood head and shoulders in influence above all others. In telling the story of his first calendar decade as a recording artist, Decade...

Explore The Who's groundbreaking albums, tracing their evolution from 1960s pioneers to rock legends.One of the British Invasion bands of the mid 1960s, The Who would soon go on to help revolutionise rock music, evolving from a pop band into the first generation of...

Author: John RobbISBN-10: 0008751366ISBN-13: 9780008751364Publisher: HarpernorthLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 416Format: Hardcover

In the 1960s, brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine created the California Sound through contagious riffs and songs about hot rods, surfers and blossoming romance. Then, in the mid-1960s, a youthful Brian Wilson changed the face...

Other than 'I Me Mine' and some minor overdubs, The Beatles' entire EMI/Apple catalogue was recorded in fewer than seven years: from 4 September 1962 through to 20 August 1969. Twelve albums, twenty-two singles, two standalone EPs, 213 songs. That in itself is remarkable...

An In-Depth Analysis of The Beatles' Music and the Technology That Made It Possible When folk look back in two hundred years time at our culture, whose music will have survived from today? Who will be our equivalent of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven? The...

"Most of the time," Theodor Adorno has noted, "records are virtual photographs of their owners." The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008 recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how...

"It's a wild ride that's vividly captured in Greg Prato's excellent oral history . . ." --Bass Player Magazine Usually when the "alternative rock revolution" of the early 1990s is discussed, Nirvana's Nevermind is credited as the recording that led the charge. Yet there...

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting." Rock's losers share top billing with its winners in...

Rock reporter Laurie Kaye interviewed John Lennon just hours before he was murdered n 1980 outside New York's famous Dakota apartments and even ran into assassin Mark David Chapman (whom she refuses to cite by name) on the street outside, and here she recounts...

Author: Stephen DavisISBN-10: 0063354594ISBN-13: 9780063354593Publisher: Dey Street BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 432Format: Paperback

For better or worse, The Bee Gees' music and image has long been synonymous with the 1970s, and the career trajectory of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb in that ten-year span meanders between dizzying highs and devastating lows. The Bee Gees began 1970...

This is the behind-the-scenes story of Noel's biggest ever world tour with his band The High Flying Birds and the making of his critically-acclaimed album Who Built the Moon? Noel has had a momentous year, with his third number one solo album, a Mercury...

How does a person overcome disadvantage, failure, and adversity to become a recognized leader in his profession? By not only ceaselessly following his passion but channeling that passion into something anyone and everyone can appreciate. Peace, Love, & Subs: the True Cosmic Dave Story,...

Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender Telecaster 75 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of this legendary guitar. Embraced for its simplicity and adaptability, the Fender(R) Telecaster(R) guitar is a musical icon around the world and across musical genres, its distinctive design as...

Guides readers through Elton John's extensive discography, revealing the stories, musical intricacies, and hidden meanings behind his legendary albums.In 1969, Elton John and Bernie Taupin gave the world Empty Sky, a heady mix of rock, folk, rhythm and blues, jazz, psychedelia, and classicism that...

Part memoir, part exposé of the music world's murky underbelly, Noise Damage is emotional, painfully honest, funny, informative and ridiculous. It's also a celebration of the life-changing magic of music.Author: Kennedy JamesISBN-10: 1785632140ISBN-13: 9781785632143Publisher: Eye BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2020Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.40h x 3.00w...

This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.Author: Robbins Music CorporationISBN-10: 1258834898ISBN-13: 9781258834890Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 84Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

For those who love or have collected early Bob Dylan bootleg albums, an archive of never before published photographs of the young Dylan, when he first moved to New York City in the early 1960s. It was in late 1961, photographer Ted Russell recalls,...

An interdisciplinary and existential exploration of live musical reenactmentIn this persuasive study, Tracy McMullen draws on philosophy, psychology, musicology, performance studies, and popular music studies in order to analyze the rise of obsessively precise live musical reenactments in the United States at the turn...

Titles: Futures * Just Tonight . . . * Work * Kill * The World You Love * Pain * Drugs or Me * Polaris * Nothingwrong * Night Drive * 23.Author: Jimmy Eat WorldISBN-10: 0739068679ISBN-13: 9780739068670Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2010Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize:...

Toxic Shock Records, Assassin of Mediocrity: A Story of Love, Loss and Loud Music by Bill Sassenberger.This is a story of a lifetime spent in the trenches of the mercantile class. Yes, it's been said before, but punk rock did change our lives. You're...

Seven Decades of Deep Purple tells the electrifying story of one of the most iconic bands in rock history. From the band's explosive formation in 1968 to the classic Mk. II lineup--Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, and Paice--and through all the iterations to the present...

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990), with parallel reflections on the artist's life in Berlin and the author's life in Dublin in the year of the album's release. Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer...

"The Who" is a legndaryEnglish rock band formed in 1964, renowned for their powerful live performances, iconic frontman Roger Daltry, Pete Townshend on guitar with his windmill strum and power chords, the thundering bass lines of John Entwistle and aggressive drumming of Keith Moon....

A must-have for every Pearl Jam fan, this beautifully designed volume traces 35 years of the groundbreaking grunge group through photos, interviews, and all the fascinating facts. Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder, and Matt Cameron are Seattle's own alternative rock band...

A history of the Grateful Dead that kaleidoscopes into an examination of the American counterculture through the life of its iconoclastic frontman, Jerry Garcia, and his merry band In early 1960's Palo Alto, Jerry Garcia randomly opened a dictionary to a fable in which...

A hilarious unofficial tribute to the most opinionated and entertainingly cantankerous band in rock and roll history. Hello and listen up. In 1994, with the shock of the lightning that was Oasis's force-of-nature debut album, the British band's cigarettes-and-alcohol-fueled founding brothers Liam and Noel...

(Easy Instrumental Play-Along). 10 songs carefully selected and arranged for first-year instrumentalists. Even novices will sound great Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments and available via download to help you hear how the song should sound. Once you've mastered the notes, download the backing...

Respected hard rock band Lo-Pan's new LP, 'Subtle' was released on May 17 via Aqualamb Records. The Ohio group, known for its dichotomic sound which merges sturm und drang heaviness with relentlessly catchy, AOR laden melody, recorded the new album at both NYC's Reservoir...

This songbook features 15 popular alternative rock songs arranged for easy piano. Includes: "Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Creep" - Radiohead, "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers, "Yellow" - Coldplay, "Stressed Out" - Twenty One Pilots, and more. Learn to: Play iconic...

Jethro Tull is an innovative rock band to emerge from the late 1960's. This idiosyncratic group fronted by the multi-instrumentalist founder and lead singer, Ian Scott Anderson, resembled a group of roving English minstrels. They have been recording their style of rock and roll...

SWIZ WAS A WASHINGTON, D.C.-BASED hardcore punk band that existed from April of 1987 through August of 1990, cutting their teeth and carving their place in the scene that birthed trailblazers and contemporaries Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dag Nasty, Fugazi, Ian MacKaye, Dave Grohl,...

Steve Perry's voice is more than just a sound-it's the heartbeat of an era. As the unmistakable lead singer of Journey, Perry's soaring vocals became the soundtrack to the 1980s, filling stadiums and airwaves with timeless anthems like "Don't Stop Believin'", "Open Arms", and...

Late in the last century, deep in the Pacific Northwest amongst the economic and psychological hardships of one town, America's last great band was born - Nirvana. The band's leader, a young introvert with superior songwriting talents, slowly molded a style inspired by punk,...

Crazy Wisdom Tales for Dead Heads takes aim at readers who are captivated by trickster and prankster stories with a deep resonance and the scent of enlightenment. In a tradition with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters of the 60's, the Guide is a collection of...

I was born in 1963; a pivotal time in music. The Beatles were just starting to take over the music scene. Bob Dylan wrote and sang Blowin' in the Wind. The song in a way is an anthem for me and many who seek...

This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her life, her friends, her triumphs and mistakes. A decade after the publication of 'Faithfull',...

Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History tells the fully illustrated story of the band that spoke for Generation X in the '90s. Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, and Krist Novoselic comprised Nirvana, the band that unintentionally tore the music world asunder with the 1991 album Nevermind....

Rising star music historian and drummer John Lingan takes you on an electrifying journey through the history of rock and roll, told through the lives of fifteen iconic drummers--from John Bonham and Charlie Watts to Ringo Starr and Questlove. Rock and roll thrives on...

My Altercation weaves together notes and memories to capture the essence of Bandung's music scene with a particular focus on the melodic punk genre.The book serves not only as a tribute to the region's punk culture but also an insightful exploration of its broader...

On a cold night in January 1961, Bob Dylan arrived in New York. Within hours, he made his first New York performance at the Greenwich Village coffeehouse Cafe Wha? This guide charts Dylan's journey through the city from that first day through the 1960s,...

RELIVE ROCK 'N' ROLL HISTORY THROUGH THE LENS OF LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER TOM SHEEHAN More than 200 images of Oasis, with many seen here for the very first time, in a stunning cloth-bound hardback. Renowned photographer Tom Sheehan (Melody Maker, NME, Uncut) worked with Oasis...