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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From the author of the award-winning Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes a novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality! Things at Carlmont Academy start out strong: She joins...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Luc pertenece a una familia de estrellas del rock. Su padre se ha pasado veinte años entrando y saliendo de programas de desintoxicación. Ahora que ha regresado, Luc vuelve a estar en el ojo público y una foto compremetedora lo estropea todo. Para limpiar su imagen, Luc debe contrar una relación bonita y normal... y Oliver no podría ser más bonito y normal. Es abrogado, vegetariano y no ha provocado un escándalo en su vida. Por desgracia,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is delighted when her father tells her he hired a famous pop star and former boy band member to play at her eighteenth birthday. But delight becomes utter disappointment when it turns out he wasn't talking about Harry Styles. No, Scarlett's dad hired Tate Ramsey, former lead singer of the band Five Car Pileup, who hasn't been popular for years. Tate, after years of alcohol- and drug-fueled partying, is sober and ready...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Clap your hands for Viola Smith—the pioneering female drummer at the heart of this bright and rhythmic biography, who rat-tat-tat-bang-crash-clink-boomed for nearly a century. Five girls played together in the Smith Sisters Orchestra: Irene on trombone, Erma on vibraphone, Edwina on trumpet, Mildred on violin, and Lila on saxophone. But what of the littlest sister? When Viola's time came, almost every instrument was taken...except one. When she...
7) Fall through
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Graphic novel about an underground punk band caught in a loop of an eternally repeating tour -- from National Book Award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell. At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas's first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guided -- largely against their will -- by vocalist Diana's powerful spell embedded into their song "Fall Through." As Diamond...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"How did a bunch of young people from the inner city create a genre of music that became a global phenomenon? From its humble origins at house parties in the Bronx, where DJs mixed old records to create new sounds, charismatic MCs let their clever lyrics flow, and B-boys and B-girls pioneered inventive dance moves, hip-hop quickly became a musical and cultural revolution." --
Series
Given (Manga) volume 6
Publisher
SuBLime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Now that Given has an offer to record their debut album, each of the band's members must decide whether to get serious about trying to go pro. Though Ritsuka doesn't have a single doubt in his mind, Mafuyu isn't ready to commit. Frustrated by Mafuyu's indecisiveness, Ritsuka shifts his focus to playing in the band of his former rival Hiragi, but Hiragi is having his own troubles with bandmate Shizusumi"--Publisher's description.
10) Given: Volume 5
Series
Given (Manga) volume 5
Publisher
SuBLime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes a song can save your life. Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music--and to each other--always brings them back together again. As the band focuses on preparing for music-festival tryouts and...
11) Given: Volume 4
Series
Given (Manga) volume 4
Publisher
SuBLime Manga
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Love of music unites the four members of the band Given: hotheaded guitarist Uenoyama, playboy drummer Akihiko, gentle bassist Haruki, and Mafuyu, a singer gifted with great talent and burdened by past tragedy. Their struggles and conflicts may drive them apart, but their bond to the music--and to each other--always brings them back together again... as the band focuses on preparing for music festival tryouts and creating new songs, Haruki grows...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking Crew to redefining rock on the Seventies' biggest hits and outrageous tours, and ultimately to the most shocking crime in rock history--a story of musical genius, uncontrollable madness, and the big fill. Jim Gordon was the greatest rock drummer of all-time. Just ask the world-famous musicians who played with him--John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric...
Author
Series
The Lillys volume 2
Publisher
Sourebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter nearly broke Kayla Whitman. Desperate to find an outlet away from her controlling mother, she picked up a pair of drumsticks, forever altering the rhythm of her life. Since then, she's been determined to make her own way, finding her home with her bandmates even as she fights to keep her past and her present firmly separate. Things were simple enough when the Lillys were playing local gigs...
14) The other Fab Four: the remarkable true story of the Liverbirds, Britain's first female rock band
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The idea for Britain's first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory, then age 16, saw The Beatles play live at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, the nightclub famously known as the "cradle of British pop music." Then and there, she decided she was going to be just like them--and be the first girl to do it. Joining ranks in 1963 with three other working-class girls from Liverpool--drummer Sylvia Saunders and guitarists...
15) I sing to use the waiting: a collection of essays about the women singers who've made me who I am
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With remarkable grace, candor, and a poets ear for prose, Zachary Pace recounts the women singers--from Cat Power to Madonna, Kim Gordon to Rihanna--who shaped them as a young person coming-of-age in rural New York, first discovering their own queer voice. Structured like a mixtape, Pace juxtaposes their coming out with the music that informed them along the way."--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Journey boasts an undeniable position at the top of rock 'n' roll superstardom. This is the story of their remarkable career-from formation in San Francisco and meteoric rise to disintegration and astonishing return. Incorporating exclusive interviews with members of the band, this biography provides a definitive and thrilling ride"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
""Witty, warm, and charming...Fans of Emily Henry and Robinne Lee's The Idea of You are going to go crazy for this one!" -Jennifer Close, author of Marrying the Ketchups. Culinary student Lexi Berman, 24, has one goal: to make her late mother proud by becoming an executive chef in a Michelin-star restaurant. And she isn't going to let anything--or anyone--get in the way. But when she meets Jake Taylor, a dive bar musician who charms her with show...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A renowned pop music scholar presents a dazzling biography of the Bee Gees -- Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, which is an extraordinary human story of career highs and lows that shows, even in the Gibbs' darkest times, their music was rarely out of the charts.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists-Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans-who came together to create the most famous and bestselling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue. The myth of the 60s depends on the 1950s being the before times of conformity, segregation, straightness-The Lonely Crowd...
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