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"The entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it-including rock, country, punk, R&B, dance and hip-hop-woven together into a cosmic reckoning with music's evolution as a popular art form, as a huge cultural and economic force, and as an essential component to our identities, from Black Sabbath to Black Flag to Beyoncae, and beyond"--
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#1 Rock stars were extremely popular in the 1960s, and teenage girls like Pamela were obsessed with them. She was especially fond of the Beatles' Paul McCartney, and she began daydreaming about him sexually.
#2 The rules of this world had been codified by the 1980s, and MTV was thriving. Rock stars outlived the Los Angeles scene that Des Barres chronicled, and they outlived...
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"From celebrated music writer Dan Ozzi comes a comprehensive chronicle of the punk music scene's evolution from the early nineties to the mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they dissolved, "sold out," and rose to surprise stardom"--
"From celebrated music writer Dan Ozzi comes a comprehensive chronicle of the punk music scene's evolution from the early nineties to the mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they dissolved, "sold out," and rose to...
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*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*AN XXL BEST RAPPER-PENNED BIOGRAPHY*
"A gripping journey."—People
The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami's crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.
Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people know his full story. Now,...
*AN XXL BEST RAPPER-PENNED BIOGRAPHY*
"A gripping journey."—People
The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami's crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.
Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people know his full story. Now,...
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With nothing more than their love of melodic, guitar-driven, rock music and the will to be in a band, three friends from a small mid-western town in Illinois; John Murphy, Gary Klebe and Jeff Murphy started their band; SHOES before any of them even knew how to play an instrument. Raised on the pop/rock inspiration of the British Invasion and Chicago's vibrant AM radio of their childhood, they not only taught themselves how to play their instruments...
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Tab transcriptions for 14 hits from their major label debut: The Climb * Different People * Don't Speak * End It on This * Excuse Me Mr. * Happy Now? * Hey You * Just a Girl * Sixteen * Spiderwebs * Sunday Morning * Tragic Kingdom * World Go 'Round * You Can Do It. Includes great photos!
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Our matching folio to Slipknot's eponymous major label debut features these Des Moines masked marauders at their mega-aggro best! Includes photos and note-for-note transcriptions with tab for 14 songs: Diluted * Eeyore * Eyeless * Liberate * Me Inside * No Life * Only One * Prosthetics * Scissors * (Sic) * Spit It Out * Surfacing * Tattered and Torn * Wait and Bleed.
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Experience the exclusive, behind-the-scenes story of one of the biggest bands of the nineties
In 1985, Mark Bryan heard Darius Rucker singing in a dorm shower at the University of South Carolina and asked him to form a band. For the next eight years, Hootie & the Blowfish, completed by bassist Dean Felber and drummer Soni Sonefeld, played every frat house, roadhouse, and rock club in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast, becoming one of the biggest independent...
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Cherry Kisses and Smiles is a book from prompts that lasted throughout the year and is now being published a year later. The book was written in one of the author's last attempts to be a full-scale writer. In vain the actual book and prompts was lost when sent to see if the book could be published by a major label. The book was never returned from Harper Collins overseas.
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We proudly present the guitar matching folio to acclaimed singer/songwriter John Mayer's major label debut. Includes a biography, photos and note-for-note transcriptions with tab supervised by Mayer himself ! 13 songs, including "Your Body Is a Wonderland," the Grammy winner for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and: Back to You * City Love * 83 * Great Indoors * Love Song for No One * My Stupid Mouth * Neon * No Such Thing * Not Myself * St. Patrick's...
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#1 I got a haircut, changed my appearance, and took a job waiting tables. I was ready to start over and make something of myself.
#2 I moved to Los Angeles and within a year I was signed to a major label, with a year's living expenses and a paid ticket to LA. I took it. Anything to get away from the bad vibes in Miami.
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The band Morphine blazed like a comet across the global music scene in the 1990s, rising from local Boston clubs to major label record deals, international touring, and wide critical acclaim until their tragic and untimely demise in 1999. Intimate band member interviews, live shows and TV appearances, display why their unique and "low rock" sound continues to resonate with music lovers today.
15) Street Rap
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They risked it all for the love of the dough, then wrote chart-topping songs about it. But can this crew escape their past?
For Reece and Qwess, being rap superstars was the dream, but in real life nothing moved without the money. So they formed the Crescent Crew, an outfit of young, ruthless hustlers that locked the Southern drug trade in a stranglehold. They're at the height of their power when Qwess is offered a record deal from a major label....
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Josh Groban, Michael Buble and William Joseph have many things in common they are young, they are not your typical music artists, and they are shepherded in their careers by illustrious producer David Foster. Groban and Buble have become major stars; Joseph is on his way. With his second major-label album, Beyond , the inventive, impassioned pianist and songwriter brings us 12 more piano solo pieces: Apasionada * Asturias * Beyond * Cinema Paradiso...
17) I Wish You Would
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Brynlee Edwards is a Senior Publicist at Formidable Records. She has just been assigned to work with an established artist the label has picked up, On the Ropes. Of all the bands to be assigned, she had to get this one.Wes Vaughan is the lead singer for On the Ropes. Having been recently dropped by their major label, they have just signed with Formidable Records. Upon meeting their new publicist, he immediately feels a connection.Together, Bryn and...
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The average independent musician, that is, a musician without a major label or publishing contract, struggles to earn a living even in the best of times. Those lucky enough to be salaried musicians, such as music directors or staff composers, earn an average salary of about $35,000 a year. Of the roughly 250,000 or so who list themselves as musicians on their tax returns, 40 percent are employed only part-time, and almost half are self-employed. About...
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Joel Plaskett has earned an awful lot of honourifics in his career so far, counting folk hero, indie darling, and national treasure among them. And that's just since the Halifax musician started making records of his own in 1999. For a decade before that, he was one-quarter of Thrush Hermit, a band of scrappy Superchunk mimics who became hard-rock revivalists and one of the last survivors of the '90s pop "explosion" of major-label interest in Halifax....
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