Music Books

This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on. It's more than a social history: it's a set of interconnected histories of the overlooked places where dancing happens . . . Why do we dance together? What does dancing tells us about ourselves, individually and collectively? And what can it do for us? Whether it be at home, '80s club nights, Irish dancehalls or reggae dances, jungle raves or volunteer-run spaces and youth centres

Brace yourself for a roller coaster thrill ride as you join the Tattoo the Earth 2000 summer tour of America, the most insane tour ever inflicted on a continent. Featuring twenty of metal's biggest bands, including Metallica, Slipknot, and Slayer, plus Filip Leu, Sean Vasquez, and the world's best tattoo artists, these renegade outsiders pissed off all the wrong music business heavyweights, but left delirious inked fans in their wake. Caravan of Pain is a rip-roaring music business underdog t

The unbelievable story of the infamous 2000 Tattoo the Earth tour of the US, featuring Metallica, Slipknot and Slayer, and the world's best tattoo artists.

Charles Fierro In His Own Words is a collection of insightful essays exploring a variety of musical topics of interest to musicians and music lovers alike. Written in a thoughtful and engaging style.

This journal represents the journey of a young DJ earning his bones in life and getting the experience of a lifetime. JD Domino faced female dilemmas, the mob wannabes, parting with the President's Men.

Spacebook is a series of books focused on the contemporary language of Jazz, the collection consists of compositions, exercises and music theory. Exercises for the Modern Jazz Pianist is the third volume in the series.

Poems that look out the windows of the bus - poems that remember last night - poems that commingle the two. Long time downtown poet, Punk and New Wave band leader, singer-songwriter, curator and publisher, JD Rage set about writing at least one poem each workday as the M-15 and M-9 buses shuttled her between her home and life on the Lower East Side, and her straight day job in Lower Manhattan, in the last couple years of the 1990's. Struggles with work, struggles with love and sex, struggles wi

Damen Warner is the front man for a metalcore band who fights to save his career as he plummets towards rock bottom. A boozy, neon spiral of sex, drugs, rock and roll, explicit content, bad language and poor taste.

Erroll Garner (1921-1977) was an inimitable jazz pianist and composer who enjoyed international recognition performing for audiences in concert halls and clubs throughout the world. He released many of his own compositions as well as popular songs on more than forty record labels throughout his career. In Erroll: The Essential LPs, author Jim Doran surveys well over a hundred 10- and 12-inch LPs produced over Garner's thirty years of recorded output. Each LP has its own page, in color, that lis

Clarity of outline, conciseness, and formal beauty are excellent things in musical works, but an exquisite fancy, a noble imagination, and a lofty poetic spirit are of infinitely greater account; and no one ever possessed these inestimable gifts in greater measure than Franz Schubert.

The touring band life of a full-time student is full of dichotomies. From 2011-2017, Alex Dontre performed 505 concerts with his band Psychostick while simultaneously pursuing a college education. It culminated with a master's degree in Business Psychology from Franklin University, at which time he gave the commencement speech at his graduation.

Falling Down is the autobiography of Nashville musician and singer-songwriter Jeremy Neely who likens his experiences to those of the prodigal son. Despite growing up in a loving and stable Christian family, Jeremy fell into a pit of pain and rejection that caused him to turn his back on God and the church to pursue his own desires.