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Good Pop, Bad Pop is the funny, revealing, highly original and Sunday Times bestselling memoir from Jarvis Cocker.What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffe...

The raucous memoir from pop's most influential producerLady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack. Behind some of the biggest musical moments in the past two decades is one man: Mark Ronson. Now, his memoir Night People captures the music, characters, e...

"Slices of Heaven: Uniquely Kiwi Comics about Aotearoa is a collection of warm and witty comics about the DNA of Aotearoa, celebrating our quirks, institutions, identity, and shared experiences. The book collects six deep-dive comics on a wide breadth of uniquely Kiwi stalwarts, including the school...

Music-lovers love lists, and this 100 Essential New Zealand Albums from Radio New Zealand's highly respected music guru Nick Bollinger will not disappoint.As his legions of fans know, Bollinger's taste is eclectic: he's as likely to give space to the Axemen as to Bic Runga. His choices come accompan...

A single song catapulted 26-year-old Pauly Fuemana from the mean streets of South Auckland to global fame, and more money than he'd ever dreamt of. But behind Otara Millionaire's Club's huge international hit "How Bizarre" and its singer lurked a darker story, fully told here for the first time.Thro...

Gareth Shute's Songs from the Shaky Isles provides a vivid account of how popular music arose in our far-flung island nation. From early songs that could only be heard in person through to modern hits which spread digitally to all ends of the earth.It's a fast-paced, big picture account that shows h...

The good old record is still spinning! With its demise predicted over and over, the vinyl has shown itself to triumphant over technology trends, beloved by music professionals and fans, collectors and DJs alike.Markus Caspers' richly illustrated photo book, Vinyl World: You Spin me Right Round, cele...

Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack. Behind some of the biggest musical moments in the past two decades is one man: Mark Ronson. Now, his memoir Night People captures the music, characters, escapades and energy of his formative DJ days in '90s Ne...

Hip-hop is now a global multi-billion dollar industry. It has spawned superstars all across the world. There have been tie-in clothing lines, TV stations, film companies, cosmetics lines. It even has its own sports, its own art style, its own dialect. It is an all-encompassing lifestyle.But where di...

Simon Critchley's On Bowie is an appreciation of David Bowie - artist, lyricist, performer, icon - including final chapters on Bowie's last album Blackstar.What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar w...

A rousing exploration of the blues and jazz music that formed much of American popular music culture, penned by the iconic Beat writer and critic.In this essential and impassioned text, LeRoi Jones traces the intertwined development of blues and jazz music with the history of its creators in 'White...

A Guardian, Mojo and Rough Trade Book of the Year - Rob Chapman's Psychedelia and Other Colours is a seminal book on Psychedelia, that explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD.Fifty years on from the psychedelic summer of love, acclaimed music writer Rob Chap...

Richard King's How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks Who Made Independent Music, 1975-2005 is a landmark survey of the record labels that make up the backbone of the independent music industry and the hugely inspirational, eccentric, impulsive and visionary figures who created them.One of the m...

The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album to be composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio, over a scant few months in the...

Rob Young & Irmin Schmidt's - All Gates Open: The Story of Can is a unique study - part biography, part symposium - of the experimental group Can, by founding member Irmin Schmidt and acclaimed author Rob Young.All Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered...

Out of print for many years and regarded as one of the greatest music books ever written, My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize: The Creation Records Story is the definitive account of the iconic British record label, republished for the label's 40th anniversary.Founded by Alan McGee in 1983, Crea...

“In Greta’s images ordinary things radiate mystery, haloed by an ecstatic glow. Her pictures traverse eerie latitudes; they are brushed by the phantasmagoric; they pulse with a visceral brightness."At the Edge of a Dark Forest, David EggletonThis book brings together a selection of photographs p...

Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Patti Smith's Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology.While Horses pays homage to the record's origins in the na...

Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.The must-read music book of the year: Bob Stanley's prequel to Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-f...

"I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind."Michel Faber's Listen: On Music, Sound and Us is an enlightening, thoughtful and witty exploration into how and why we listen to music.There are countl...

French photojournalist Sophie Bramly moved to New York in 1981, when she was just 21, and began photographing it all, taking pictures of graffiti artists, breakdancers and rappers such as the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, when no one else was paying attention.In 1984, Bramly returned to France where she...

Steven Hyden's This Isn’t Happening: Radiohead's Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century was a Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020."In this brilliant book, Steven Hyden goes deep into why Kid A matters—it's the fascinating saga of how the music turned into the symbol of a new cultur...

The extended play recording. Not quite an album. More than a single. And not only an artifact of the vinyl era - the EP has survived and even thrived at every turn of the music industry’s evolution, from vinyl to tape to CD to stream.This definitive book unearths the EP’s origins, history and cu...

Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study of Eyeliner's , a vaporwave homage to the kitsch electronic sounds of the 1980s and 1990s.The latest in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Oceania series, Eyeliner's (2015) belongs to a new genre for our times: vaporwave. Emerging in the early 2010s on the internet, vaporw...