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Rip It Up

Rip It Up: Rock'n'Roll Rulebreakers by Denise Sullivan

As they create genres, smash myths, invent styles and make way for the future, the musicians you'llmeet here keep rock's...
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The White Stripes: Sweethearts of... by Denise Sullivan

The White Stripes don't merely stand on the shoulders of giants. They are giants themselves. The White Stripes had to...
Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators and Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock

Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers:... by Richie Unterberger

Urban Spacemen and Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators & Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock is a 300-page book with in-depth profiles...
Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll: Psychedelic Unknowns, Mad Geniuses, Punk Pioneers, Lo-Fi Mavericks & More

Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll by Richie Unterberger

Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll is a 422-page book with in-depth profiles of sixty of the most interesting overlooked cult rock...
Eight Miles High

Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight... by Richie Unterberger

The second half of the two-volume history of 1960s folk-rock, which saw the movement branch off into folk-rock-psychedelia, singer-songwriters, country-rock,...
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The Unreleased Beatles: Music and... by Richie Unterberger

The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film details the incredible wealth of music the Beatles recorded that they did not
Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop

Country Fried Soul: Adventures in... by Tamara Palmer

Earth's first book dedicated to Southern rap music and culture
Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music, Writing, and Life

Becoming Almost Famous: My Back... by Ben Fong-Torres

This collection of favorite articles from Ben Fong-Torres features a slew of entertaining and informative music and pop-culture pieces on...
The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio

The Hits Just Keep on... by Ben Fong-Torres

This lively blast from the past peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles,...