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The Downtown Pop Underground

New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock ’n’ roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture

By Kembrew McLeod

The History of Gangster Rap

From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form

By Soren Baker; Foreword by Xzibit

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

An Art Book

By Reinhard Kleist

Fred W. McDarrah: New York Scenes

Introduction by Sean Wilentz

Rhyme Book

A lined notebook with quotes, playlists, and rap stats

By Eric Rosenthal and Jeff Rosenthal

Rolling Stone 50 Years of Covers

A History of the Most Influential Magazine in Pop Culture

By Jann S. Wenner

Opera

Passion, Power and Politics

Edited by Kate Bailey; Introduction by Kasper Holten

Nick Cave

Mercy on Me

By Reinhard Kleist

F*ck, That's Delicious

An Annotated Guide to Eating Well

By Action Bronson with Rachel Wharton; Photography by Gabriele Stabile

Songversations

Conversation Starters about Music and Life (100 Questions)

By Eric Hutchinson

Pink Floyd

Their Mortal Remains

Foreword by Aubrey "Po" Powell, co-founder of Hipgnosis; Chapters by Mark Blake, Joe Boyd, Victoria Broackes and Anna Landreth-Strong, Howard Goodall, Jon Savage, and Rob Young

50 Years of Rolling Stone

The Music, Politics and People that Shaped Our Culture

By Jann S. Wenner and the Editors of Rolling Stone

Vinyl Me, Please

100 Albums You Need in Your Collection

By Vinyl Me, Please

Haddon Hall

When David Invented Bowie

By Néjib

The Zapple Diaries

The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label

By Barry Miles

Devil and the Bluebird

By Jennifer Mason-Black

Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads

By Nick Hayes

The Rap Year Book

The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

By Shea Serrano

John Lennon

The New York Years (reissue)

By Bob Gruen

The Boombox Project

The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground

By Lyle Owerko, Foreword by Spike Lee

Mad World

An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

By Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein, foreword by Nick Rhodes, afterword by Moby

Rock and Roll Stories

By Lynn Goldsmith

Glam Rock

Dandies in the Underworld

By Alwyn W. Turner

Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Volume II

By Eddie Trunk, foreword by Slash

Bun B's Rap Coloring and Activity Book

By Shea Serrano and Bun B

Legends of the Blues

Written and illustrated by William Stout

David Bowie Is

edited by Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh; Includes essays by Christopher Frayling, Howard Goodall, Camille Paglia, and Jon Savage

The Merciless Book of Metal Lists

By Howie Abrams and Sacha Jenkins

Broadway Musicals

From the Pages of The New York Times

By Ben Brantley

Commando

The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

By Johnny Ramone

Bonnaroo

What, Which, This, That, The Other

Yoko Ono

Collector of Skies

By Nell Beram and Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky

Rock Seen

By Bob Gruen, introduction by Debbie Harry

Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal

By Eddie Trunk

Patti Smith 1969-1976

By Judy Linn

Don't Art, Fashion, Music: Chicks on Speed

By Melissa Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie, Introduction by Judith Winter

Antony and the Johnsons

Swanlights

By Antony and the Johnsons

Understand Rap

Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You and Your Grandma Can Understand

By William Buckholz

Max's Kansas City

Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll

By Steven Kasher

Struts & Frets

By Jon Skovron

Battle of the Band Names

The Best and Worst Band Names Ever (and All the Brilliant, Colorful, Stupid Ones in Between)

By Bart Bull

Satchmo

The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong

By Steven Brower, foreword by Hilton Als

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes

The Art of Alan Aldridge

By Alan Aldridge

Halfway to Paradise

The Birth of British Rock

By Alwyn W. Turner; Photographs by Harry Hammond from the V&A Collection

Project: Iceland

Music, Art, Fashion

Edited by Charlie Strand

Three Wishes

An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats

Pannonica de Koenigswarter

New York Dolls

Photographs by Bob Gruen

Bob Gruen

Ten Years of Trace

Edited by Claude Grunitzky and Steven Psyllos,

R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country

Illustrated by R. Crumb, Introduction by Terry Zwigoff, With text by Stephen Calt, David Jasen, and Richard Nevins

The Jazz Image

Masters of Jazz Photography

By Lee Tanner, With an introduction by Nat Hentoff, Afterword by Peter Fetterman, , Lee Tanner, , Nat Hentoff, , Nat Hentoff

Swag 2

Rock Posters of the 90's and Beyond

By Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz, Foreword by Nels Jacobson and Dirk Fowler

CBGB & OMFUG

Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock

Introduction by Hilly Kristal, Afterword by David Byrne

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