How To Write One Song Loving The Things We Create And How They Love Us Back

There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal wasn't so ...

The singer, guitarist, and songwriter—best known for his work with Wilco—opens up about his past, his songs, the ...

Thirty years after The Beatles split up, the music of Lennon, McCartney, Harrrison and Starkey lives on. What exactly were ...

Infuse your lyrics with sensory detail! Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you ...

A Hudson Booksellers Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, with foreword by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy High Fidelity meets Killing Yourself ...

W - Sweeney called me and said that Johnny Cash just recorded ' I See A Darkness.' We had ...

A lively oral history of the Toronto cult indie-rock band draws on interviews with such past and present members as ...

The intimate story of one of the great American bands of our time, creators of the controversial masterpiece Yankee Hotel ...

Design guru and art collector Todd Oldham shines the spotlight on the clever and warped world of artist Wayne White. ...

Philip Toshio Sudo, founder of the Zen Guitar movement, and guitarist and educator Tobias Hurwitz present this follow-up to the ...

Humorist Keaton Patti "forced a bot" to digest massive amounts of human media to produce these absurdly funny, “totally real,” “...

A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original ...

"A visual portrait that delves into the people and processes behind self-recorded music, featuring some of the biggest names in ...

Erin Osmon presents a detailed, human account of the Rust Belt–born musician Jason Molina—a visionary, prolific, and at ...

A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American ...

How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib Sampling—incorporating ...

The Must-Have Guide for Songwriters Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this ...

Webb brings his insider's knowledge, experience, and star power to the ultimate guide for aspiring songwriters. With a combination of ...

The first biography of Yo La Tengo, the massively influential band who all but defined indie music. Yo La Tengo ...

Give Your Songwriting a Competitive Edge This book takes you on the songwriter's journey from the first inspiration for a ...

Part artistic retreat, part guide to living a creative life Venture into a space that intimately discusses how to find ...

With exclusive access to Strummer's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, music journalist Chris Salewicz penetrates the soul of an rock ...

Merge Records defies everything you’ve heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson ...

The long-awaited sequel to Songwriters on Songwriting, often called "the songwriter's bible," More Songwriters on Songwriting goes to the heart ...

A writer's journey with the fan bases of Phish and Insane Clown Posse describes his unexpected discovery of how both ...

Mark Oliver Everett's upbringing was 'ridiculous, sometimes tragic and always unsteady'. His father - a quantum mechanic who worked for ...

How is this program different? What if I told you that it's as important to manage the thoughts you feel ...

The former Uncle Tupelo and current Son Volt musician presents snapshots of the people and places he encountered during his ...

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love...

Written in side-splitting and often cringe-inducing detail, Paul Feig takes you in a time machine to a world of bombardment ...

We all have music inside us: melodies in our sentences, rhythms in our syllables, heartbeats and steps. Whether we harbor ...

Sixty-two letters from a nameless protagonist comprise this epistolary novel. He writes them to Emma, a woman he sees at ...

"Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming and Better Lyrics : This book has a very specific purpose: to help you find better ...

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Singing is an amazing accomplishment that almost everyone in the world wants to achieve. However, only a few people are ...

Polly Powell is a book publisher who decided to write this book for her two children as they faced the ...

In late 2008, as the world's economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario ...

Examining the pictorial, literary, and musical world that Wilco conjure up on record and on stage this book is created ...

The greatest story never told, this formidable and gorgeously written biography documents the amazing and controversial short life of Calixa ...

'If sound is the fifth element, then Richard has nurtured and enhanced some of the most important soundwaves of our ...