Saltwater Country
$33.00 AUD
Category: Music
Born and raised in the pearling town of Broome, North-West Australia, The Pigram Brothers have been active in the Australian music industry, in various guises, for over fifteen years. And so, inspired by a homeland where the fiery red pindan cliffs and the deep blues of the Indian ocean are bisected b ...Show more
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories by Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter - including lyrics, stories, photographs and tributes. A year after he entered the Dreamtime, Archie Roach's spirit continues to soar, much like the wedge-tailed eagle - his totem animal from his mother' ...Show more
Full Coverage: A History of the Australian Rock Press by Samuel J. Fell
$36.99 AUD
Category: Music
For over fifty years, Australia has maintained its own rock press - a vibrant, passionate, sometimes volatile industry of dozens of papers and magazines committed to the coverage of the country' s robust music scene.From the glossy and glamorous to the punk and pernicious, these publications were the me ...Show more
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. With a foreword by Billy Bragg. Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, son ...Show more
Half Deaf, Completely Mad: The Chaotic Genius of Australia's Most Legendary Music Producer by Tony Cohen, John Olson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
The music and mayhem behind the seminal sounds of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Models, Hunters & Collectors, The Saints, The Go-Betweens, Cold Chisel, The Cruel Sea and so many more'. The most obsessive, single-minded character I've ever seen, outside of the mirror' - Nick Cave. 'I first met Nic ...Show more
How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talking', 'Dumb Things', 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' ...Show more
Hawkwind - Days of the Underground - Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia by Joe Banks
$72.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Strange Attractor Press Ser.
An account of the English rock band Hawkwind shows them to be one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. Fifty years on from when it first formed, the English rock band Hawkwind continues to inspire devotion from fans around the world. Its influence reaches across the spec ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll by Stuart Coupe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll | Reading Level: near fine
This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets. Roadies are the unsung heroes of the Australian music industry. They unload the ...Show more
Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined by Kirsten Krauth (editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
This stunning follow up to Minds Went Walking- Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined features Christos Tsiolkas, Cate Kennedy and Andy Griffiths. From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy ...Show more
Paul Kelly: the Man, the Music & the Life in Between by Stuart Coupe
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Renowned music journalist Stuart Coupe examines the life of an Australian music icon - honest, revealing and a must-read for Paul Kelly fans and music lovers alike. He's been called Australia's Bob Dylan and likened to Springsteen and Neil Young, but Paul Kelly stands alone as a chronicler of his and ou ...Show more
Inner Song: A Biography of Margaret Sutherland by Jillian Graham
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Margaret Sutherland was one of the most innovative and influential Australian composers. In the first half of the twentieth century, her desire to be both serious composer and mother was atypical, and she faced significant challenges - public and private. Jillian Graham is a freelance writer, editor an ...Show more