Freak Out: How a Musical Revolution Rocked the World in the Sixties by Tony Wellington
$34.95 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Freak Out is Australia's coming-of-age story, how we as a nation were dragged into global culture by the unstoppable momentum of rock and pop music. The sixties were an era of extraordinary change and earth-shattering events. The music scene responded with popular anthems that reverberated across the pl ...Show more
My Giddy Aunt and her sister comedians by Sharon Connolly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
A vivid and original account of the age of vaudeville in Australia and the eccentric women who gave it life. Whip-smart and fabulously funny, the women of vaudeville entertained Australia and challenged ideas of how women should behave. Opening a forgotten case of photographs, Sharon Connolly begins a ...Show more
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni Mitchell, Sarah Perry on Rachmaninov to Bernardine Evaristo on Sweet Honey in the Rock. Part meditation o ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life. Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Sean O'Hagan, it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave's own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of faith, art, music, fr ...Show more
Sound as Ever: A Celebration of the Greatest Decade in Australian Music: 1990-1999 by Jane Gazzo, Andrew P. Street
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
The 90s was a magical time for Australian music. Record labels had money to spend, the Big Day Out and Triple J went national and suddenly everyone was getting a 3-piece together and gigging in the inner-city pubs of their town. Sound as Ever is a celebration and a documentation of this fertile period w ...Show more
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Series: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined
For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad-comedian John Clark-and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser o ...Show more
Guitar Zero by Gary Marcus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
On the eve of his 40th birthday, renowned cognitive psychology Gary Marcus decided to fulfil a lifelong dream and learn to play the guitar, investigating how humans "make" music and how anyone of any age might master a new skill. His quest takes him from summer jam sessions with 12-year-olds to classes ...Show more
Guitar All-In-One for Dummies - Book + Online Video and Audio Instruction by Mark Phillips; Jon Chappell; Desi Serna; Hal Leonard Corporation
$60.95 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
7 Books in one Go from the basics to the style you want to play Making beautiful music with your acoustic or electric guitar requires practice, patience, and perseverance. A little guidance helps get you on the path to imitating the sounds of your guitar heroes. This friendly guide shares how to get t ...Show more
The Flame by Leonard Cohen; Adam Cohen (Introduction by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an unprecedentedly intimate look ins ...Show more
Learn How to Play the Acoustic Guitar by Ted Fuller
$37.95 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
This is a complete practical guide with 750 step-by-step photographs, illustrations and musical exercises. It explains all the basic techniques of guitar playing, from tuning and strumming to double stopping and improvising. It includes a chordfinder of 300 essential guitar chords. It shows you how to m ...Show more
John Lennon: The Complete Songs by Paul Du Noyer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Upon first publication, this book was the first to examine and assess all of John Lennon's solo work. This updated edition includes lyrics and is released on the 40th anniversary of his death and the 80th anniversary of his birth.
Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-accla ...Show more