Music
Meet Me in the Bathroom
Lizzy Goodman
Format: Paperback
An intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of iconoclastic rock bands.
Psychedelia and Other Colours
Rob Chapman
Format: Paperback
A seminal book on Psychedelia, that explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD.
White Bicycles
Joe Boyd
Format: Paperback
How was one man present at so many pivotal points of the birth of modern rock? An insight into Joe Boyd's career, and London's music scene in the late 60s.
Folk Song in England
Steve Roud
A brand new look at the folk music tradition in England, a hugely readable social history of the phenomenon.
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Richie Unterberger
Bob Marley and the Wailers documents the band's crucial role in establishing reggae's global popularity, with socially conscious lyrics that made Marley a symbol of pride and justice.
Shock and Awe
Simon Reynolds
Format: Paperback
The first complete epic history of Glam Rock from '68-'76 by the finest music writer of his generation, Simon Reynolds.
Comparing Notes
Adam Ockelford
We are all instinctively musical. Why? And how does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn't) music? Adam Ockelford has the answers.
Tim Book Two
Tim Burgess
Tim Book Two - a tale of Tim Burgess' lifelong passion for records, the shops that sell them, and the people who make them.
Roots, Radicals and Rockers
Billy Bragg
Against a backdrop of Cold War politics, rock and roll riots and a newly assertive generation of working-class youth, the songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg charts the history, impact and legacy of skiffle - Britain's first indigenous pop movement.
The Speed of Sound
Thomas Dolby
The 'engaging, emotional, funny and surprising' (JJ Abrams) memoir of the electronic music and technology pioneer Thomas Dolby.
