Music

In the last decade, no industry has been through as much upheaval and turmoil as the music industry. If you're looking for quick fame and instant success, you're in the wrong field....

Do you know what top producers such as, Calvin Harris, Afrojack, and Swedish House Mafia do in the studio? You will discover what the music producer does and how to bring your music to life. Become a smart recording artist and discover the hidden rules of recording and composition....

Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of the most important and beloved bands in the history of rock, and John Fogerty wrote, sang, and produced their instantly recognizable classics....

As Judas Priest approaches its golden anniversary, fans will at last be able to delve backstage into the decades of shocking, hilarious, and haunting stories that surround the heavy metal institution....

The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor reflects on what it means to be an American in an increasingly unstable world. He examines the way America sees itself....

In 1975, five young employees of a sclerotic William Morris agency left to start their own strikingly innovative talent agency....

Even if you have listened to many of these illustrative pieces throughout your life you will never hear them the same way again after experiencing these lectures....

Professor Greenberg of San Francisco Performances returns with a fascinating and provocative premise: Despite the abstractness and the universality of music it is a mirror of the historical setting....

From backrooms of Max's and CBGB's to the Tropicana Hotel in Los Angeles and back, Punk Avenue is a tour de force of stories from someone at the heart of the era. With brilliant, often hilarious prose, Phil Marcade relays first-hand tales....

This frequency works to heal broken DNA, healing on all levels - emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical - bringing relief from anxiety, fatigue, and control issues. It helps to release negative thinking....

I Want My MTV tells the story of the first decade of MTV, the golden era when MTV's programming was all videos, all the time, and kids watched religiously to see their favorite bands....

For over a decade, Jesse Cannon has been pushing creative ideas in music....

Do you know what top producers such as, Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, Afrojack, and Swedish House Mafia do in the studio? You will discover what the music producer does and how to bring your music to life. Become a smart recording artist and discover the hidden rules of recording and composition that you can apply to use in any studio. Famous producers share the equipment they use and share how to record musical instruments, essential hardware, the mix-down, 10 Golden Rules of music production, plus much more. Are you ready to share your music with the world? 

As Judas Priest approaches its golden anniversary, fans will at last be able to delve backstage into the decades of shocking, hilarious, and haunting stories that surround the heavy metal institution. In Heavy Duty, guitarist K.K. Downing discusses the complex personality conflicts, the business screw-ups, the acrimonious relationship with fellow heavy metal band Iron Maiden, as well as how Judas Priest found itself at the epicenter of a storm of parental outrage that targeted heavy metal in the '80s. 

John is a vocal coach and singing teacher. This audiobook will answer your questions like "How do I sing better?" and "How do I sing easier?". John's approach will provide you with the voice help you need, set your vocalizing free, and help you achieve better vocal stamina and flexibility.  

It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. The buzz-saw guitars, the messed-up clothing and hair, the rejection of society and the DIY approach to building a new one: In their gray surroundings, where everyone's future was preordained by some communist apparatchik, punk represented a revolutionary philosophy - quite literally, as it turned out.

“Music is the reward for being alive”, writes Jorma Kaukonen in this candid and emotional account of his life and work. In a career that has already spanned a half-century - one that has earned him induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, among other honors - Jorma is best known for his legendary bands Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna. But before he won worldwide recognition he was just a young man with a passion and a dream. Been So Long is the story of how Jorma found his place in the world of music and beyond.

Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton’s second major work on music for Bloomsbury - the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009).