Arts / Music

KISS FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Hottest Band in the Land

von Dale Sherman

(FAQ). Since 1973, KISS has recorded over 20 studio albums; been recognized as an innovator in rock presentations; witnessed a firestorm of rumors and controversies; remained a thorn in critics' sides; and continues...

The Portable Henry Rollins

von Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word.  As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through...

This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band

von Levon Helm & Stephen Davis

The Band, who backed Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965 and then turned out a half-dozen albums of beautifully crafted, image-rich songs, is now regarded as one of the most influential rock groups of the...

Zen and the Art of Mixing

von Mixerman

(Technical Reference). In his first book, The Daily Adventures of Mixerman , the author detailed the frustrating and often hilarious goings on during the process of recording a major-label band. Musicians, engineers,...

The Daily Adventures of Mixerman

von Mixerman

(Book). Mixerman is a recording engineer working with a famous producer on the debut album of an unknown band with a giant recording budget. Mixerman is supposed to be writing about recording techniques, but...

Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton

von Howard Reich & William M. Gaines

The acclaimed, definitive biography of the first jazz composer, based on newly discovered archival material

Three-Note Voicings and Beyond

von Randy Vincent

Randy Vincent's second Sher Music Co. book covers every aspect of the crucial three-note voicings every guitarist needs to know. It has received glowing endorsements from Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Mike Stern, Ben...

Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies

von Jeff Strong

Invaluable advice that will be music to your ears!

Are you thinking of getting started in home recording? Do you want to know the latest home recording technologies? Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies will...

Piano - Guided Sight-Reading

von Leonhard Deutsch

Piano GUIDED Sight Reading- A New Approach to Piano Study by LEONHARD DEUTSCH. Table of Contents: Foreword xi The Story of the Sight-Reading Method 3 The Problems of Sight-Reading 13 What is the correct way...

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

von Nikki Sixx

In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented...

Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me

von Brad Paisley & David Wild

The Story of a Life with Strings Attached

Brad Paisley is one of country music’s leading men—admired as a recording artist, a performer, a songwriter, and a guitar slinger. This was not always so. In Diary...

Writing Better Lyrics

von Pat Pattison

The Must-Have Guide for Songwriters Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating...

Play Great Guitar: Brilliant ideas for getting more out of your six string

von Rikki Rooksby

Knowing how to play the guitar is just one of those things we'd all love to be able to do. Think back to your formative years - at parties it was always the kid with the guitar who got all the attention, and...

Nicki Minaj: An Unauthorized Biography

von Belmont and Belcourt and Be Biographies

With so many different sides of her personality coming out in each new track, it's hard to figure out just who Nicki Minaj really is. But like any other story, it sometimes helps to look back at the beginning...

Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen

von Vince Neil

"So where do we start? I remember when we did The Dirt, the Mötley Crüe book, I was interviewed at The Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills. A lot of people think I didn't get to say much in The Dirt. It's probably...

Scar Tissue

von Anthony Kiedis

Scar Tissue is a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption -- a story that could only have come out of the world of rock.

Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly...

A Natural Woman: A Memoir

von Carole King

Carole King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of all time. A NATURAL WOMAN chronicles King's extraordinary...

My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses

von Steven Adler & Lawrence J. Spagnola

No secret is too dark.

No revelation too sick. But you must have the appetite for it.

After forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints, and a debilitating...

Def Jam, Inc.: Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World's Most Inf

von Stacy Gueraseva & Brett Ratner

In the early ‘80s, the music industry wrote off hip-hop as a passing fad. Few could or would have predicted that the improvised raps and raw beats busting out of New York City’s urban underclass would one...

Not Dead & Not for Sale: A Memoir

von Scott Weiland & David Ritz

In the early 1990s, Stone Temple Pilots—not U2, not Nirvana, not Pearl Jam— was the hottest band in the world. STP toppled such mega-bands as Aerosmith and Guns N’ Roses on MTV and the Billboard charts....