Arts

The Power in Logic Pro: Songwriting, Composing, Remixing, and Making Beats

by Dot Bustelo

(Quick Pro Guides). Dot Bustelo's signature approach to teaching Logic will get you up and running quickly. She'll help you move beyond the basics to discover a professional-level Logic workflow, taught through...

Tips for Tight Teams: High-Performance Help for Today's Worship Musician

by Sandy Hoffman

Worship Musician Presents

Tips for Tight Teams instructs and equips today's worship musician to function on the musical, relational, and technical levels expected of 21st-century worship team leaders and members....

If You Like Metallica...: Here Are Over 200 Bands, CDs, Movies, and Other Oddities That You Will Love

by Mike McPadden

If You Like

In hard rock history, there is the time before Metallica and there is everything that has come since: metal, punk, industrial, grunge, alternative all of it absorbed, transformed, and reinvented by...

Sound Design and Mixing in Reason

by Andrew Eisele

Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs

You'll begin with a little history of the synthesizers and the basics of how use them. Learn the functions of oscillators, filters, amplifiers, LFOs and envelopes. Next, you'll apply...

Desktop Mastering

by Steve Turnidge

Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs

Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise, maximize your good work, and have your music sparkle and shine as you really...

The Book of Shadows: The Unofficial Charmed Companion

by Ngaire E. Genge

The ultimate guide to the hit program Charmed, this is both a book of spells and a key to the mysteries of the show. The Book of Shadows celebrates the best of Charmed, from its roots in the ancient tradition...

Purple Rain: Music on Film Series

by John Kenneth Muir

Limelight

In the summer of 1984, a small, low-budget film came out of nowhere and unexpectedly debuted at the number one slot at the box office, unseating reigning champion Ghostbusters and making its star, Prince,...

Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York

by Paul Goldberger

In Up from Zero, Paul Goldberger, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the inside story of the quest to rebuild one of the most important symbolic sites in the world, the sixteen acres where the towers of the...

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition: Complete Chart Information about America's Most Popular Songs and Artists, 1955-2009

by Joel Whitburn

The Essential Reference Guide to America’s Most Popular Songs and Artists Spanning More than Fifty Years of Music

Beginning with Bill Haley & His Comets’ seminal “Rock Around the Clock” all the way...

PreFab Houses DesignSource

by Marta Serrats

For many, the idea of prefab housing may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of home life. But this idea couldn't be more wrong! Rather, the newest trends in prefab have emerged as a great...

Power Chord

by Thomas Scott McKenzie

When Scott McKenzie was a young man, he thought he saw God . . .

The deity was all in black with knee-high silver boots, a patent-leather breastplate, and full face makeup, clutching a beautiful, custom Les Paul...

The Man Who Sold the World

by Peter Doggett

The Man Who Sold the World is a critical study of David Bowie's most inventive and influential decade, from his first hit, "Space Oddity," in 1969, to the release of the LP Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)...

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

by Rob Sheffield

What Is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question throughout the ages, and in the modern era, they have come up with many different answers. According to Western philosopher Pat Benatar, love...

Marley And Me: The Real Bob Marley Story

by Don Taylor

Since Bob Marley died in 1981, the myths and legends which surround his life have continued to grow. Only one man knows the truth. Marley's confidante and manager Don Taylor, tells the real story behind Marley....

Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies

by Dean Sluyter

Movie fans and spiritual seekers, unite! In Cinema Nirvana, meditation teacher and award-winning film critic Dean Sluyter illuminates the hidden enlightenment teachings of Casablanca, Jaws, The Graduate, The...

The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty

by Wilfrid Sheed

From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy,...

Cee Lo Green: An Unauthorized Biography

by Belmont and Belcourt and Be Biographies

Cee Lo Green is a former Goodie Mob member, Southern gentleman, YouTube sensation, and Gnarls Barkley vocalist. If you ask the general public, you'll find he's best known for his vocals on mid-tempo, radio-friendly...

Hermann Levi: From Brahms to Wagner

by Frithjof Haas & Cynthia Klohr

Jewish conductor Hermann Levi strove for excellence and recognition as a composer and conductor of classical music in 19th-century Germany. In this biography, newly translated into English by Cynthia Klohr,...

Reading the Grateful Dead: A Critical Survey

by Nicholas G. Meriwether

In Reading the Grateful Dead: A Critical Survey, Nicholas G. Meriwether has assembled a collection of essays that examine the development of Grateful Dead studies. This volume includes work from three generations...

Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema

by Thomas G. Deveny

In Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, Thomas Deveny takes the unique approach of looking at film and immigration with a global perspective, examining emigration and immigration films from Spain, Mexico,...