Newly revised and updated, with even more bands detailed and dissected, including the biggest names in Grindcore, Gorecore, Pagan Metal, Viking Metal and Vampire Metal; Extreme Metal is more than just an encyclopaedia.
Whit "Pop" Haydn, six-time award winning Magician and former Vice President of the world famous Magic Castle, shares his over 40 years of experiences performing magic all around the world.
One of the most consistently controversial and misunderstood artists of recent years, this is Yoko Ono in her own words, discussing performance, art, and her life with John Lennon.
Explora la pasión y el ritmo del tango argentino con "Diez tangos famosos" de Roberto Firpo, una colección impresionante que trae la esencia del tango al piano.
From the creators of Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic and Eminem: In My Skin comes an explosive new graphic novel, tracing the events leading up to the death of one of modern music's most charismatic performers.
Bob Dylan: Performing Artist 1986-1990 And Beyond is the third volume of US critic Paul Williams' widely acclaimed writings on the music and performances of Bob Dylan.
Indispensable account of Ronald Reagan's formative years and exhaustive, no frills filmography, including over 200 capsule biographies and anecdotes of Reagan's co-casts and crews.
Before launching the iconic Texas blues-rock trio ZZ Top, a young Billy Gibbons was hustling through the Lone Star State with a band named the Moving Sidewalks.
From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to call him the "e;dean of American church musicians.
This book was painstakingly researched over five years using scores of primary interviews and first-hand recollections by those closest to Ronson, including: Suzi Ronson (wife), David and Maggie Ronson (brother and sister), Minnie Ronson (mother), Steve Popovich (manager), Lou Reed, Ian Hunter, Chrissie Hynde, Steve Harley, Joe Elliott and a host of others.
Michael Ball is more than a Laurence Olivier Award winner and multiplatinum recording artist; he holds the unique status of being Britain's foremost musical theatre actor.
Alfred Brendel nannte Peter Gülke einmal "den sehr seltenen Fall eines praktischen Musikers, der zugleich Musikwissenschaftler ist und dazu ein Literat von hohen Graden".
This biography offers students and general readers an insightful look into Jerry Garcia's creative genius as a founding member of The Grateful Dead and the various influences on his work as he contributed to the countercultural movement in the United States.
This fresh interpretation explains how an untutored musician changed music while at the same time playing an inadvertent role in the youth rebellion that has shaped the Baby Boomer generation into the 21st century.
Michael Haydn, oft im Schatten seines berühmten Bruders Joseph Haydn stehend, war ein außergewöhnlicher Komponist, dessen Werk und Leben bisher zu wenig gewürdigt wurden.
An in-depth look at the rise of enigmatic Australian rock band TISM, the unexpected success of their 1995 album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, and the continued trajectory of their storied career.
