We have a mission. We want rock your Summer with The Zombies, Bob Dylan, Paul Major, Björk, Hipgnosis…, and this selection of interesting music books:

Feel the Music:  The Psychedelic Worlds of Paul Major
Feel the Music:
The Psychedelic
Worlds of Paul Major

‘Feel the Music: The Psychedelic Worlds of Paul Major’
Paul Major

Anthology Editions
$60

Feel the Music traces Paul’s trajectory from his formative days in the Midwest, his years in the late ’70s New York punk scene, and into his curious career as a connoisseur and campaigner of the weirdest records of all time. Brought to life with unseen photographs, rare record covers, and cut n’ paste ephemera from Paul’s long running mail order catalog, while animated by Paul’s storytelling, Feel the Music is a fanatical mystery tour through the further, outer reaches of music history. Alongside Paul’s writing, Feel the Music features essays by Johan Kugelberg, Jack Streitman, Michael P. Daley, Rich Haupt, Stefan Kery, Patrick Lundborg, Geoffrey Weiss, Jesper Eklow, and Glenn Terry. Each book also comes with a special Sorcerers and Endless Boogie split 7″ vinyl record.

Feel the Music: The Psychedelic Worlds of Paul Major
Feel the Music: The Psychedelic Worlds of Paul Major

34 Scores for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Celeste
34 Scores for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Celeste

’34 Scores for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Celeste’
Björk

One Little Indian
£39.99

34 Scores for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord and Celeste is the first ever sheet music to be published by Björk. The scorebook includes selections from Debut, Post, Homogenic, Selmasongs, Vespertine, Medúlla, Björk’s Drawing Restraint 9 soundtrack, Volta and Vulnicura, and reimagines what can be achieved with traditional sheet music. Created in collaboration with longtime pianist and collaborator Jonas Sen, design house M/M (Paris) and engraving company Notengrafik Berlin.

The Poetry of Pop
The Poetry of Pop
‘The Poetry of Pop’
Adam Bradley

Yale
$28

This book reveals the poetic artistry of popular songs. Adam Bradley traces the song lyric across musical genres from early twentieth-century Delta blues to mid-century rock ‘n’ roll to today’s hits. George and Ira Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm. The Rolling Stones’ (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction. Rihanna’s Diamonds. These songs are united in their exacting attention to the craft of language and sound. Bradley shows that pop music is a poetry that must be heard more than read, uncovering the rhythms, rhymes, and metaphors expressed in the singing voice. At once a work of musical interpretation, cultural analysis, literary criticism, and personal storytelling, this book illustrates how words and music come together to produce compelling poetry, often where we least expect it.

Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art
Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art
‘Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art’
The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue
Aubrey Powell

Thames and Hudson
$40

The never before published catalogue of album covers created by the legendary design agency Hipgnosis. Founded in 1967 by Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey “Po” Powell, and Peter Christopherson, Hipgnosis gained a legendary status in graphic design, transforming the look of album art forever and winning five Grammy nominations for package design.
Arranged chronologically, Hipgnosis: The Complete Album Covers features stunning reproductions of every single Hipgnosis cover—more than 300 in total—for the first time, along with pertinent insights from the rock ’n’ roll legends whose albums are featured and behind-the-scenes photography.

Martin Hannett, His Equipment & Strawberry Studios
Martin Hannett, His Equipment & Strawberry Studios
‘Martin Hannett, His Equipment & Strawberry
Studios’
Chris Hewitt

Hallow Ground
£24.49

This 175 page A4 sized new book covers Martin Hannett and the equipment he used for producing sounds with Joy Division and early New Order plus for Happy Mondays, Buzzcocks, Nico, Magazine, Stone Roses and U2. It also covers Strawberry Studios which was opened and initially used by 10CC for their best albums and singles and block booked by Factory and Hannett from 1979 for many of the post punk recordings.

Bob Dylan The Essential Interviews
Bob Dylan
The Essential Interviews

Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
Jonathan Cott

Simon & Schuster
$35

Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features over two dozen of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, gathered in one definitive collection that spans his career from street poet to Nobel Laureate. First published in 2006, this acclaimed collection brought together the best interviews and encounters with Bob Dylan to create a multi-faceted, cultural, and journalistic portrait of the artist and his legacy. This edition includes three new pieces from Rolling Stone that update the volume to the present day.

Among the highlights are the seminal Rolling Stone interviews—anthologized here for the first time—by Jann Wenner, Jonathan Cott, Kurt Loder, Mikal Gilmore, Douglas Brinkley, and Jonathan Lethem—as well as Nat Hentoff’s legendary 1966 Playboy interview. Surprises include Studs Terkel’s radio interview in 1963 on WFMT in Chicago, the interview Dylan gave to screenwriter Jay Cocks when he was a student at Kenyon College in 1964, a 1965 interview with director Nora Ephron, and an interview Sam Shepard turned into a one-act play for Esquire in 1987.

The "Odessey": The Zombies in Words and Images
The “Odessey”: The Zombies in Words and Images
‘The Odessey: The Zombies in Words and Images’
By The Zombies. Foreword by Tom Petty. Text by Scott B. Bomar, Cindy da Silva. Contributions by Brian Wilson, Carlos Santana, Paul Weller.

Reel Art Press / BMG Books
$39.95

To mark the 50th anniversary of the recording of their classic Odessey and Oracle album, The Zombies have assembled an eclectic collection of rare and unseen photos, original artwork and personal memories that offer readers an intimate snapshot of one of the more influential bands to emerge from the UK music scene of the 1960s.

Meet Me in the Bathroom Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
Meet Me in the Bathroom
Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
‘Meet Me in the Bathroom. Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011’
Lizzy Goodman

Harper Collins Publishers
$20.24

In the second half of the twentieth-century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war—and a dozen New York City bands that had been honing their sound and style in relative obscurity suddenly became symbols of glamour for a young, web-savvy, forward-looking generation in need of an anthem.

Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the transformation of the New York music scene in the first decade of the 2000s, the bands behind it—including The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, and Vampire Weekend—and the cultural forces that shaped it, from the Internet to a booming real estate market that forced artists out of the Lower East Side to Williamsburg. Drawing on 200 original interviews with James Murphy, Julian Casablancas, Karen O, Ezra Koenig, and many others musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers, photographers, managers, music executives, groupies, models, movie stars, and DJs who lived through this explosive time, journalist Lizzy Goodman offers a fascinating portrait of a time and a place that gave birth to a new era in modern rock-and-roll.

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