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Dance-Punk 33 1/3 Genre Series by Larissa Wodtke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. Also sometimes referred to as disco-punk and funk-punk, it skirts, overlaps, and blurs into other genres including post-punk, post-disco, new wave, mutant disco, and synthpop. This book explores the historic ...Show more
David Bowie's Low 33 1/3 by WILCKEN HUGO
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3
"One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he's built an altar in the living room and keeps his fingernail clippings in the frid ...Show more
Hilltop Hoods' the Calling 33 1/3 by Dianne Rodger; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
The success of the Hip-Hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of Hip-Hop in Australia. It launched a formerly 'underground' scene into the spotlight, radically transforming the group members' lives and creating new opportunities for other Hip-Hop artists. Thi ...Show more
I'm Your Fan: the Songs of Leonard Cohen (33 1/3) by Ray Padgett
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John ...Show more
J Dilla's Donuts 33 1/3 by Jordan Ferguson
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3
From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla" Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as "hip hop music" is typically defined; they caree ...Show more
K. D. Lang's Ingénue 33 1/3 by Joanna McNaney Stein
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed "cowpunk," with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her unconventiona ...Show more
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly by Sequoia Maner
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly was widely hailed as an instant classic, garnering laudatory album reviews, many awards, and even a cano ...Show more
Kraftwerk's Computer World 33 1/3 by Steve Tupai Francis
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement. Computer World transformed the way pop music was composed, played, packaged and released and, in the process, helped create entire new genres of music including hip-hop, ...Show more
Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) by Erik Davis
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3
In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music s towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic black or otherwise that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots and leaves the reader to ...Show more
Living Colour's Time's Up 33 1/3 by Kimberly Mack
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
The iconic Black rock band Living Colour's Time's Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Time's Up is a musical and lyrical triumph, incorporating distinct forms and styles of music and featuring inspired collab ...Show more
My Bloody Valentine Loveless 33 1/3 by Mike McGonigal
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3
This epoch-making record of the late '80s effortlessly combines dense swathes of guitar noise and dance music. This turned out to be their last record, guitarist and studio maestro Kevin Shields having set their standards so high it was impossible to surpass them. Shields is now playing with Primal Scre ...Show more
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads (33 1/3) by Santi Elijah Holley
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Category: Performing Arts | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the small town of Millhaven, a teenage girl secretly and gleefully murders her neighbors. A serial killer travels from home to home, quoting John Milton in his victims' blood. Murder Ballads, the ninth studio alb ...Show more