324 pages of never before seen Roxy Music photographs from one of the most high-profile Roxy Music fans celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band's debut album. A perfect gift for fans of 80s bands, Roxy Music and music photography.2022 marks the 50th...

An engrossing history of the music of twilight and sleep, from the nocturnes of Field and Chopin to Max Richter In an insomniac age, ambient and sleep music have become increasingly popular. But our association between music and sleep is not new:...

A prevailing narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of Sixties counterculture, disappeared in the 1970s, then released arguably the worst music of his career in the 1980s--only to be resurrected in 2016, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York TimesFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of classic histories of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, a groundbreaking reckoning with the world’s greatest rock 'n' roll bandAll great music is a threat...

Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign—Desforges Pianos—he enters, only to have his way barred by the shop’s imperious owner...

A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky--composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music "A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the 19th century's most important musical figures...

One of the world's greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the African diaspora made it the world's most popular form Why do Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, and...

The very first and definitive biography of Peter Tosh, rude boy, founder member of the Wailers and a compelling recording artist in his own right --Tosh was Jamaica's most controversial reggae star. For the Mystic Man, music was the message. A fiery...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. The Sunday Times (UK) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018.“A magisterial portrait.” —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book ReviewA landmark biography of...

In its early years, Rolling Stone stood out on the magazine rack: an iconoclastic bimonthly aimed at young Americans, dedicated to music, culture, and politics. Magazine cofounder Jann Wenner's vision of a magazine that blended politics with...

Persuasive, captivating, and bursting with insight, this dual biography by acclaimed New York Times journalist Jim Windolf dives into the surprisingly supportive, occasionally rivalrous, and always fertile relationship between Bob Dylan and The Beatles,...

An intimate insider's account of New York's most radical cultural revolution and the women who obliterated every barrier in their pathIn 1975 a young queer singer from Cleveland meets Nan Goldin and joins her in New York's bombed-out downtown, where...

A lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and expressivity while diversifying our sense of the musical canon. An artist draws two octaves of pitches randomly from a hat, just enough to set each syllable...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of the Year "No one else in the universe could have written this book." --Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on...

The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his death A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav Mahler has been lauded by scholars as a landmark...

In On the Record: Music That Changed America, Anna Harwell Celenza uncovers the sometimes-surprising influence of music on American politics and culture. From "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Billie Holiday's haunting "Strange Fruit" to Paul Simon's...

"In Bridging Sonic Borders, Sharina Maíllo-Pozo focuses on the intersections between Dominican, Caribbean, Afro-diasporic, and U.S. American popular music genres (hip-hop, African-American jazz, blues, pop, and rock, different types of merengue) and...

Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign is the first critical anthology dedicated to exploring the legacies of two pop music icons who died within months of one another in 2016: David Bowie and Prince. Daphne A. Brooks brings together an extraordinary...