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The members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock gods. The first and heaviest of the heavy metal monsters, they violently shook the foundations of rock music and took no prisoners on the road. Their tours were legendary, their lives were exalted, and their music transcendent. No band ever flew as high as Led Zeppelin or suffered so disastrous a fall. And only some of them lived to tell the tale. Originally published in 1985, and last updated in 2008, Hammer of the Gods is considered the ultimate word on Led Zeppelin.

In this of-the-moment essay collection, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner explores the ways in which Céline Dion, Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette, and Sarah McLachlan became bona fide global superstars while revolutionizing ’90s music. In an era when male-fronted musical acts dominated radio and were given serious critical consideration, these four women were reduced, mocked, and disparaged by the media and became pop culture jokes, even as their albums were topping the charts and demolishing sales records.

¿Quiénes fueron las pioneras del rock argentino? ¿Cuál fue la tradición rockera femenina que se fue gestando desde los años 60 hasta nuestros días? ¿Por qué la historia casi no las registra? Romina Zanellato, periodista especializada en música y feminismo, se propone narrar por primera vez en forma integral la participación de las mujeres en el rock argentino, aquellas que estuvieron allí desde el principio, y las opresiones que sufrieron para poder hacer su música.

Emerging from the Pacific Northwest in the mid-1980's, grunge is an iconic and legendary sub-genre of alternative rock characterized by its heavy, distorted guitar sound and its angst-filled lyrics that often dealt with social alienation, apathy, and disillusionment with mainstream society. So who are the 50 most important grunge bands ever? Music critic and journalist Jay Johnson breaks it down in this book -- which is especially enlightening for those unfamiliar with the grunge scene -- as he spotlights both the widely celebrated and nearly forgotten bands in grunge history.