|  Almost Nothing with Luc Ferrari Text by Jacqueline Caux, Luc Ferrari. Interview by Jacqueline Caux, François Delalande, Daniel Terrugi, Evelyne Gayou. Translated by Jérôme Hansen. Perhaps the only postwar classical composer to invest avant-garde music with overt eroticism, Luc Ferrari (1929–2005) was one of France’s leading composers of the twentieth century, relentlessly experimental while always preserving his keen sense of >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780982743911
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 164 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Gainsbourg: The Biography By Gilles Verlant. Translated by Paul Knobloch. When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: François Mitterand himself proclaimed him “our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire.” Gainsbourg redefined French pop, from his beginnings as cynical chansonnier and mambo-influenced jazz artist to th >>more
TamTam Books
ISBN 9780966234671
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Pbk, 8.5 x 5.5 in. / 400 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Odd Future: Golf Wang Edited by Nick Weidenfeld, Michael Schmelling. The Los Angeles collective of hip hop skater kids known as Odd Future--or in full, Odd Future Golf Wang Kill Them All--has galvanized hip hop superstars, sneaker freaks, hipsters and cognoscenti alike with its dark, >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780983719915
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters 1974-1977 Edited by Mike Kelley, Dan Nadel. Text by Nicole Rudick. The influential Detroit “anti-rock” group Destroy All Monsters (Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, Jim Shaw) made raucous music, irreverent art and legendary zines, performing and disseminating their activities through an elaborate self-mythology. The Des >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780983719908
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 312 pgs / 400 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Tom Waits: Bad As Me Tom Waits is a major artist, both to countless young musicians who name him as a crucial influence, and to the press and critics who see him as one of the most important figures in >>more
Anti-
ISBN 9780982880869
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Hbk, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 40 pgs / 20 tritone / 2 Audio CDs.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Ain’t No Grave By Macel Ely II. Once described as the King Recording Label's “Gospel Ranger,” Brother Claude Ely (1922-1978) was known and loved throughout the Appalachian mountains as both a religious singer-songwriter and a Pentecostal-Holiness preacher. Few people, however, knew the >>more
Dust to Digital
ISBN 9780981734224
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Hbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 360 pg / 290 duotone / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Arcana II: Musicians on Music Edited by John Zorn. Texts by Yamataka Eye, J. G. Thirlwell, Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Marina Rosenfeld, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Annie Gosfield, Jim O'Rourke, Milford Graves, Zeena Parkins, Bill Laswell and Uri Caine, et. al. In his preface to the first Arcana: Musicians on Music (2000), avant-garde composer and saxophone player John Zorn wrote: "This book exists to correct an unfortunate injustice, the incredible lack of insightful critical writing about >>more
Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833763
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Paperback, 6.5 x 10 in. / 300 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Arcana III: Musicians on Music Edited by John Zorn. Arcana III is the third groundbreaking collection of critical writings on avant-garde and experimental music put together by editor (and experimental music legend) John Zorn. In this volume, 30 distinguished composer/performers illuminate and spec >>more
Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833770
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Arcana IV: Musicians on Music Edited by John Zorn. Now in its fourth installment, with a fifth in preparation, John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series provides insight into the work and methodologies of some of the most creative musical minds of our time. Rather than >>more
Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833787
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Pbk 6.5 x 10 in. / 408 pgs / 85 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Arcana V: Musicians on Music, Magic & Mysticism Edited by John Zorn. For centuries musicians have tapped into mysticism, magic and alchemy, embracing ritual, spell, incantation and prayer, and experimenting with esoteric approaches to harmony, pitch and vibration. In recent decades, avant-garde musicians have rediscovered >>more
Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833794
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 464 pgs / 62 color / 52 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  David Bowie: Any Day Now Foreword by Kenneth Pitt. Text by Kevin Cann. David Bowie first came to notice with the 1969 song "Space Oddity," after which he promptly vanished from the public eye, immersing himself in a long period of musical experimentation and reemerging in 1972 as >>more
Adelita
ISBN 9780955201776
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Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 336 pgs / 460 color / 400 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-1979 Text by Cary Loren, Mike Kelley, Niagara, Jim Shaw. Formed in 1973, the Detroit band Destroy All Monsters was a wild and reckless synthesis of psychedelia, proto-punk, heavy metal, noise and performance art. The collective hailed from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and consisted of Cary >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9780978869786
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 278 pgs / 40 color / 185 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Fabio Paleari: I Won't Give Up Text by Robert Montgomery. Any follower of the international tabloids is well-acquainted with rocker Pete Doherty, the former Libertines frontman who is now quite famous for his on-again, off-again love affairs with supermodel Kate Moss and crack cocaine. After >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862080194
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 160 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Feed-Back: The Velvet Undergound: Legend, Truth Edited by Ignacio Julià. "Only five thousand people ever bought a Velvet Underground album," Brian Eno once said, "but every single one of them started a band." Of course, well in excess of that oddly low number of copies >>more
Ignacio Julià
ISBN 9788461268252
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Hbk, 8 x 7 in. / 280 pgs / 3 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Give My Regards To Eighth Street By Morton Feldman. Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the twentieth century, a man whose music is known for its extreme quiet and delicate beauty (while Feldman himself was famously large and loud). >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972316
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 256 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol. 2 Artwork by Kim Gordon. In Chronicles Vol. 2, Kim Gordon brings together some of her most personal drawings from recent years--drawings that she made for her daughter, Coko, for her nieces, for her partner Thurston Moore, and friends. This >>more
Nieves
ISBN 9783905714135
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 32 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol.1 Artwork by Kim Gordon. This artist's book is best summed up in Kim Gordon's own words: “Basically what the book consists of is a loopy text of me having a conversation with someone named Julia about Dylan's book Chronicles, >>more
Nieves
ISBN 9783905714012
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 32 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Moby: Destroyed Like no other music of its era, Moby's oceanic, bluesy electronica has summed up the millennial turn's rootless melancholia, in massive worldwide hits like "Porcelain," "Natural Blues" and "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862081559
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Hbk, 11.5 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 77 color / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  New York Noise: Art and Music from the New York Underground 1978-88 Edited by Stuart Baker. Between 1975 and 1988 New York City spawned an incredible and wild array of artistic communities that overlapped and interbred with scant heed for generic "purity" (let alone posterity): every musician, it seemed, was also >>more
Soul Jazz Records Publishing
ISBN 9780955481703
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Flexi, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 208 pgs / 400 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Sigur Rós: Med sud í eyrum vid spilum endalaust Edited by Sarah Hopper. Gorgeously ethereal, minimalistic and adored worldwide, the magical soundworld of the Icelandic band Sigur Rós has enraptured a worldwide audience with its quiet beauty. Med sud í eyrum vid spilum endalaust is a deluxe clothbound >>more
Sigur Ros
ISBN 9781935202059
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Clth, 12 x 9.5 in. / 200 pgs / 153 color / DVD (NTSC & PAL).
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Sonic Youth: Sensational Fix Edited by Roland Groenenboom. Text by Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Vikki Alexander, Jutta Koether, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Richard Hell, et al. The iconic postpunk band Sonic Youth is famed for blurring musical genres, veering from thundering rock to dismantled experimentalism, and expanding the possibilities of the electric guitar. "What we're doing is always inventing itself. I >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9783865605399
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Hbk, 7.25 x 7.25 in. / 720 pgs / 700 color / two 7 in. vinyl records.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Take Me to the Water Text by Luc Sante, Jim Linderman, Steven L. Ledbetter. Making the past vividly present once again, Grammy winner Dust-to-Digital unveils Take Me to the Water, a revelatory examination of baptismal rites and music. Comprising a beautiful hardcover book and a CD featuring rare, vintage >>more
Dust-to-Digital
ISBN 9780981734217
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Clth, 8.75 x 6 in. / 96 pgs / 75 duotone / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts Edited by Seán Kissane. Text by Brian O'Doherty, Francesco Pellizzi, Dore Ashton, Juan Manuel Bonet. If any music can be said to be painterly, it is that of Morton Feldman (1926-1987), one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. Feldman (1926-1987) was deeply immersed in the milieu of >>more
Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9781907020087
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Pbk, 9.5 x 13.5 in. / 318 pgs / 97 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Destroy All Monsters Artwork by Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw. Description: Destroy All Monsters started out as an anti-rock band: four midwestern art students - Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, and Niagara - with a mission to subvert the airwaves. Between 1975 and 1979, >>more
Book Beat Gallery
ISBN 9781881616481
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 100 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/02/1995 Out of print/Not available
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|  Jon Thor Birgisson & Alex Somers: Riceboy Sleeps This powerful and enigmatic small volume has been hotly anticipated by Sigur Ros fans for some time. A reprint of the first artist's book from frontman Jon "Jónsi" Thor Birgisson and his boyfriend Alex Somers, >>more
Moss Stories
ISBN 9781933045801
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Hardback, 4.5 x 6 in. / 52 pgs. / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available
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|  Philip Glass & Steve Reich: Images 4 Music Artwork by Glass. Philip, Steve Reich. The urge towards the optic is arguably being felt increasingly in all media; music is no exception, as Images 4 Music demonstrates. Whether the results are spontaneous, derivative, algorithmic, abstract, poetic or simply arbitrary, visual >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775715966
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Boxed, 5 x 5.75 in. / 16 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Out of Print/Not available
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| |  The Wilco Book Edited by Peter Buchanan-Smith and Daniel Nadel. Essay by Rick Moody. Texts by Mark Twain and Bern Porter. Art by Fred Tomaselli. Photographs by Michael Schmelling. This is a book about Wilco and the pictorial, literary and musical world it conjures up on record and in performance. Created in collaboration with Jeff Tweedy, Wilco and Tony Margherita, this primarily visual book >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780971367036
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Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Out of Print/Not available
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