Singing and Music Making

Explore the entire, incredible journey of Bob Marley and the Wailers, and their enduring legacy, in this unique visual history. More than four decades after Marley’s death, he and his bandmates remai …

Ian Hunter’s Diary of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star has received a litany of plaudits and been described as what ‘may well be the best rock book ever’ and ‘an enduring crystallization of the rock musician’s l …

During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself—known to most as the composer of Messiah—is a bi …

On the back cover of one of his most groundbreaking solo albums, . . . Nothing like the Sun of 1987, Sting (Gordon Matthew Sumner, b. 1951 in Wallsend, UK) somberly stands close to a statue of Mary, …

Stillpoint: Reflections From A Year On The Cliff is the third book of short stories from Grammy-winning producer and award-winning writer, Barrett Martin. Building on his previous books,  T …

God & Monster is the ultimate profile of the world’s most controversial superstar: Kanye West. Kanye revolutionised hip-hop with his debut album The College Dropout and has collaborated with the bigg …

It’s 1967, the Summer of Love, and Bob Dylan is holed up in Woodstock with a group of musicians once known as The Hawks, laying down a set of recordings that will soon turn the music world on its hea …

Explore the captivating journey of synthwave through ‘The History of Synthwave’ by Herkimer Throckmorton. From its roots in ’80s electronic music to the global spread of this retro-futuristic genre, …

Kirkus Reviews • Best Books of 2024 [Nonfiction] “I first met Jesse Ed Davis in the late ’80s. . . . [He was a] gentle yet intensely present giant who was a legend of an artist. . . . In Washita Love …

A pathbreaking study of the Parisian press’s attempts to claim Richard Wagner’s place in French history and imagination during the unstable and conflict-ridden years of the Third Reich. Richard Wagne …