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Tonight in Jungleland
- The Making of Born to Run
- Written by: Peter Ames Carlin
- Narrated by: Peter Ames Carlin
- Length: 12 hrs
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A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the making of Bruce Springsteen’s ground-breaking album, Born to Run–one of the most iconic records in rock history–Tonight in Jungleland combines lush music writing with unprecedented inside access to Springsteen, his bandmates, and the full story behind every song… and coincides with the album’s 50th anniversary in August 2025.
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Tonight in Jungleland
- The Making of Born to Run
- Narrated by: Peter Ames Carlin
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 2025-08-05
- Language: English
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- The Outrageous, Definitive, & Untold History
- Written by: Craig J. Inciardi
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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The Indiana Jones of rock history and founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum narrates the Hall's wild history and his quest to build its collection from scratch—from Ozzy Osbourne's country manor to Keith Moon’s childhood bedroom and Art Garfunkel’s personal archives—including stories about Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and more.
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- The Outrageous, Definitive, & Untold History
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2025-09-30
- Language: English
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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
- Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
- Written by: Gregory Alan Thornbury
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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In 1969, in Capitol Records' Hollywood studio, a blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would launch a new genre of music and one of the strangest, most interesting careers in modern rock. Having spent the bulk of the 1960s playing on bills with acts like The Who, Janis Joplin, and The Doors, Norman decided that he wanted to sing about the most countercultural subject of all: Jesus.
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An Incomplete Story
- By Yvon Malenfant on 2019-12-12
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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
- Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-26
- Language: English
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Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Geoffrey Himes
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, "one, two, one, two, three, four," followed by the droning synth chords of "Born in the U.S.A." Max Weinberg hit his drums with a two-fisted physicality that cut through the swelling chords. With a rolled-up red kerchief around his head and heavy black boots under his faded jeans, Springsteen looked like the character of the song, and from the very first line ("Born down in a dead man's town") he sang with the throat-scraping desperation of a man with his back against the wall.
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Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-13
- Language: English
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Holding the Note
- Profiles in Popular Music
- Written by: David Remnick
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, David Remnick
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing “Respect” or Bob Dylan performing “Blind Willie McTell,” have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years.
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Holding the Note
- Profiles in Popular Music
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, David Remnick
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-23
- Language: English
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Swingin' at the Savoy
- Written by: Norma Miller, Evette Jensen
- Narrated by: Bettye Zoller Seitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress, and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir of Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom and the phenomenal music and dance craze that "spread the power of Swing across the world like Wildfire". It was a time when the music was Swing, and Harlem was king.
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Swingin' at the Savoy
- Narrated by: Bettye Zoller Seitz
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2014-07-28
- Language: English
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Black Music
- Written by: LeRoi Jones
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly.
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Black Music
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2014-11-11
- Language: English
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Perfect Wave
- More Essays on Art and Democracy
- Written by: Dave Hickey
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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When Dave Hickey was 12, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out - he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and for us, he survived, and continues to battle, decades into a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture.
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Perfect Wave
- More Essays on Art and Democracy
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-14
- Language: English
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Disgraceland
- Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly
- Written by: Jake Brennan
- Narrated by: Jake Brennan
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Real rock stars do truly insane thing and invite truly insane things to happen to them: murder, drug trafficking, rape, cannibalism and the occult. We allow this behavior. We are complicit because a rock star behaving badly is what's expected. It's baked into the cake. Deep down, way down, past all of our self-righteous notions of justice and right and wrong, when it comes down to it, we want our rock stars to be bad. We know the music industry is full of demons, ones that drove Elvis Presley, Phil Spector, and Sid Vicious and that consumed the Norwegian black metal scene.
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Disgraceland
- Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly
- Narrated by: Jake Brennan
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-01
- Language: English
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Love and Let Die
- James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
- Written by: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs, Chris Shaw
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
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Bond and the Beatles present us with opposing values, visions of the British culture, and ideas about sexual identity. Love and Let Die is the story of a clash between working class liberation and establishment control, and how it exploded on the global stage. It explains why James Bond hated the Beatles, why Paul McCartney wanted to be Bond, and why it was Ringo who won the heart of a Bond Girl in the end.
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Relevant and insightful
- By trevornewland on 2023-07-02
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Love and Let Die
- James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
- Narrated by: John Higgs, Chris Shaw
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-28
- Language: English
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Led Zeppelin IV
- Rock of Ages
- Written by: Barney Hoskyns
- Narrated by: Barney Hoskyns
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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The revealing backstory of the album with no name that spawned 'When the Levee Breaks', 'Black Dog,' 'Stairway to Heaven', and 'Rock 'n' Roll'. Four tracks each side; eight killers, no fillers. This is how they did it.
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Led Zeppelin IV
- Rock of Ages
- Narrated by: Barney Hoskyns
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2014-04-28
- Language: English
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Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
- 33 1/3
- Written by: Sequoia Maner
- Narrated by: Angel Pean
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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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 canonized place in Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois archive. Why did this strangely compelling record stimulate the emotions and imaginations of listeners?
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Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Angel Pean
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-13
- Language: English
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Chasing Chopin
- A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
- Written by: Annik LaFarge
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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In this widely praised book, Annik LaFarge presents a very different Frédéric Chopin from the melancholy, sickly, Romantic figure that has predominated for so long. The artist she discovered is, instead, a purely independent - and endlessly relevant - spirit: an innovator who created a new musical language; an autodidact who became a spiritually generous, trailblazing teacher; a stalwart patriot during a time of revolution, pandemic, and exile.
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Chasing Chopin
- A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2020-08-11
- Language: English
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Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
- A Life in Music
- Written by: Dave Stewart
- Narrated by: Dave Stewart, Mick Jagger (Foreword)
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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A no-holds-barred look into the remarkable life and career of the prolific musician, songwriter, and producer behind Eurythmics and dozens of pop hits. Dave Stewart’s life has been a wild ride - one filled with music, constant reinvention, and the never-ending drive to create. Growing up in industrial Northern England, he left home for the gritty London streets of the 70's, where he began collaborating and performing with various musicians, including a young waitress named Annie Lennox.
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Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
- A Life in Music
- Narrated by: Dave Stewart, Mick Jagger (Foreword)
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2016-02-09
- Language: English
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Het lied
- Een hoorcollege over de liedkunst, van Mozart tot heden
- Written by: Leo Samama
- Narrated by: Leo Samama
- Length: 8 hrs
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Het "lied" is een zeer algemeen begrip dat vele soorten en vormen van liederen omvat. Wanneer we tegenwoordig het lied als kunstvorm beschouwen, bedoelen we in feite het lied met begeleiding van piano. Hoewel dat een ernstige beperking impliceert, behandelt Leo Samama in deze serie colleges toch overwegend dat klavierlied. Grofweg van Haydn en Mozart tot in onze tijd. Hij vertelt ook over de ontwikkeling van de spannende samenwerking tussen muziek en tekst. Begint de kracht van de muziek inderdaad waar die van de tekst ophoudt, of is de symbiose vele malen groter dan dat?
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Het lied
- Een hoorcollege over de liedkunst, van Mozart tot heden
- Narrated by: Leo Samama
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 2025-06-25
- Language: Dutch
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In with the In Crowd: Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America
- American Made Music Series
- Written by: Mike Smith
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Smith tells the joyful story of the musicians, the radio DJs, the record labels, and the live venues where jazz not only survived but thrived in the 1960s. In an era marked by turmoil and struggle, popular jazz offered a powerful outlet for joy, resilience, pride, and triumph.
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In with the In Crowd: Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America
- American Made Music Series
- Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-23
- Language: English
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Satchmo Blows Up the World
- Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
- Written by: Penny M. Von Eschen
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the US State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism.
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Phenomenal window into US history
- By Penseur on 2022-05-10
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Satchmo Blows Up the World
- Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-10
- Language: English
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Kick Out the Jams
- Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing
- Written by: Dave Marsh
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day, the book gives an opinionated, eye-opening overview of 20th-century popular music—offering a portrait not just of an era but of a writer wrestling with the American empire.
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Kick Out the Jams
- Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2023-08-15
- Language: English
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The Rolling Stones
- Written by: Claudia Valentini
- Narrated by: Alioe Pagotto, Dario Sansalone
- Length: 51 mins
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Dal primo nucleo di quelli che diventeranno i Rolling Stones, all'arrivo di Brian Jones, che ne sarà l'anima per qualche tempo, fino alla costituzione della vera "fabbrica" Jagger/Richards. Questo audioBook è un viaggio avventuroso e a volte impietoso lungo le tappe di una delle carriere più "granitiche" del rock: quella delle Pietre per eccellenza, i Rolling Stones. Un disco dopo l'altro per raccontare l'avventura della band più longeva della musica senza dimenticare qualche aneddoto curioso e, soprattutto, dando il giusto spazio a quello che più conta.
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The Rolling Stones
- Narrated by: Alioe Pagotto, Dario Sansalone
- Length: 51 mins
- Release date: 2017-03-01
- Language: Italian
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Your Band Sucks
- What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
- Written by: Jon Fine
- Narrated by: Jon Fine
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Jon Fine spent nearly 30 years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music. And, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands "ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame". Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after 21 years to tour Europe, Asia, and America, diehard longtime fans traveled from far and wide to attend those shows.
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Your Band Sucks
- What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
- Narrated by: Jon Fine
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-23
- Language: English
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