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A Long Strange Trip
- The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
- Written by: Dennis McNally
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 29 hrs and 25 mins
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From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan exploded out of the early 60s roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. Dennis McNally, the band's historian and publicist for more than 20 years, takes listeners back through the Dead's history.
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- By Emergency Clue on 2021-07-14
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A Long Strange Trip
- The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 29 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-28
- Language: English
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Willie, Waylon, and the Boys
- How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
- Written by: Brian Fairbanks
- Narrated by: Tyler Darby
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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The tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today’s Alt-Country and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings’ survival on the Day the Music Died through to the Highwaymen and on to the current creative and commercial explosion of Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Zach Bryan, Jason Isbell, and the Highwomen.
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Willie, Waylon, and the Boys
- How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
- Narrated by: Tyler Darby
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-04
- Language: English
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Deliver Me from Nowhere
- The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
- Written by: Warren Zanes
- Narrated by: Warren Zanes
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen’s hugely successful album The River should have been the hit-packed Born in the U.S.A. But instead, in 1982, he came out with an album consisting of a series of dark songs he had recorded by himself, for himself. But more than forty years later, Nebraska is arguably Springsteen’s most important record—the lasting clue to understanding not just his career as an artist and the vision behind it, but also the man himself.
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Deliver Me from Nowhere
- The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
- Narrated by: Warren Zanes
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-02
- Language: English
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Nirvana
- The Amplifications
- Written by: Michael Azerrad
- Narrated by: Michael Azerrad
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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It has been three decades since Nirvana upended the pop cultural landscape with Nevermind, the landmark album that became the soundtrack of Generation X, capturing its confusion, frustration, and passion. In 1993, Michael Azerrad published what stands as the definitive biography of this revolutionary band and its star-crossed leader Kurt Cobain. Written with the band’s complete cooperation—the only book to feature interviews with Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic, and drummer Dave Grohl—it became a massive bestseller and, in the words of Cobain, "the best rock book I’ve ever read.”
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A very captivating listen
- By Anonymous User on 2023-11-12
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Nirvana
- The Amplifications
- Narrated by: Michael Azerrad
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-24
- Language: English
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Waiting for Britney Spears
- A True Story, Allegedly
- Written by: Jeff Weiss
- Narrated by: Jeff Weiss, Mel Bouzad, Sedona Soluoshon
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles was an unknown young writer taking whatever job he could while pursuing his distant literary dreams. He'd instead become an eyewitness to the slow tragedy of a changing nation, represented in spirit by “the coy it-girl at the end of history.”
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Waiting for Britney Spears
- A True Story, Allegedly
- Narrated by: Jeff Weiss, Mel Bouzad, Sedona Soluoshon
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-10
- Language: English
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Altamont
- The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- Written by: Joel Selvin
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.
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Very good
- By Roberta W on 2024-04-18
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Altamont
- The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2016-08-16
- Language: English
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Mood Machine
- The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
- Written by: Liz Pelly
- Narrated by: Liz Pelly
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Drawing on over a hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today’s highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed.
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Good content but terrible delivery
- By Mario Cardoso on 2025-04-22
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Mood Machine
- The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
- Narrated by: Liz Pelly
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2025-01-07
- Language: English
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
- Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- Written by: Lizzy Goodman
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
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In the second half of the 20th century New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York further from the epicenter. The behemoth music industry, too, found itself in free fall, under siege from technology. Then 9/11/2001 plunged the country into a state of uncertainty and war.
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Big miss
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-07-21
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
- Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2017-05-23
- Language: English
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Our Band Could Be Your Life
- Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
- Written by: Michael Azerrad
- Narrated by: Jon Wurster, Merrill Garbus, Fred Armisen, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
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This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan '80s - when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rock's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith has been recognized as an indie rock classic in its own right.
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Essential Listening
- By DrMom247 on 2020-03-22
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Our Band Could Be Your Life
- Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
- Narrated by: Jon Wurster, Merrill Garbus, Fred Armisen, Sharon Van Etten, Stephin Merritt, Jeff Tweedy, Corey Taylor, Phil Elverum, Michael Azerrad, Dave Longstreth, Jonathan Franzen, Laura Jane Grace, Colin Meloy
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-21
- Language: English
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Music Is History
- Written by: Ahmir Khalib Thompson, Questlove
- Narrated by: Questlove
- Length: 11 hrs
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Best-selling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past 50 years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song’s significance, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and identity.
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Music and history
- By snickels on 2023-11-16
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Music Is History
- Narrated by: Questlove
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 2021-10-19
- Language: English
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Delta Blues
- The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
- Written by: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insights, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed The History of Jazz - brings to life the stirring music of the Delta, evoking the legendary figures who shaped its sound and ethos: Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, and others.
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Delta Blues
- The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-16
- Language: English
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The History of Rock & Roll
- Volume 1: 1920-1963
- Written by: Ed Ward
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
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Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative - from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the airwaves took hold and the Beatles prepared for their first American tour.
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The History of Rock & Roll
- Volume 1: 1920-1963
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Series: The History of Rock & Roll, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2016-12-06
- Language: English
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- Written by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music - as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identities.
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loved it!
- By AJ Estridge on 2021-11-22
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-05
- 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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The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974-80
- Written by: Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 31 hrs and 35 mins
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Picking up immediately after The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, authors Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair have brought the same exhaustive research ethos to Volume 2 that made the first volume a critical success. Arguably the most authoritative text on the life of Paul McCartney, Volume 2 follows McCartney the man, establishing himself as a musician beyond Beatlemania and his legacy throughout the 20th century through the present day.
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So thorough, but left me hanging
- By Roberta W on 2025-04-20
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The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974-80
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Series: The McCartney Legacy, Book 2
- Length: 31 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2024-12-10
- Language: English
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Shout It Out Loud
- The Story of Kiss's Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon
- Written by: James Campion
- Narrated by: Stephen Borne
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
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Shout It Out Loud is a serious examination of the circumstance and serendipity that fused the creation of the band's seminal work, Destroyer - including the band's arduous ascent to the unexpected smash hit Alive!, the ensuing lawsuits between its management and its label, the pursuit of the hot, young producer, a grueling musical "boot camp", the wildly creative studio abandon, the origins behind an iconic cover, the era's most outlandish tour, and the unlikely string of hit singles.
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Get to the point!!!
- By shane sperling on 2021-06-26
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Shout It Out Loud
- The Story of Kiss's Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon
- Narrated by: Stephen Borne
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2021-01-26
- Language: English
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When Giants Walked the Earth
- A Biography of Led Zeppelin
- Written by: Mick Wall
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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They were the last great band of the '60s and the first great band of the '70s. They rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time - and eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction, and death.
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Great story, great performance
- By Kelly Coe on 2019-10-21
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When Giants Walked the Earth
- A Biography of Led Zeppelin
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2009-10-22
- Language: English
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Where Are Your Boys Tonight?
- The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
- Written by: Chris Payne
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Chris Abell
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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Music journalist Chris Payne experienced emo's mainstream takeover from sweaty crowds and mosh pits growing up in New Jersey. In Where Are Your Boys Tonight? he offers an authoritative, impassioned, and occasionally absurd account told through interviews with more than 150 people, from the scene's biggest bands, producers, and managers to the teenage fans who helped redefine American music culture.
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boring performance makes it a tough listen
- By Madelaine on 2024-11-25
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Where Are Your Boys Tonight?
- The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, Chris Abell
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-06
- Language: English
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- Written by: Nora Princiotti
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Low-rise jeans, butterfly clips, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, and Paris Hilton’s nights out. The early 2000s were a time of major moments in fashion, media, celebrity culture, and especially music. The aughts were a particularly fruitful era for female artists—still the only decade in the history of recorded music when women made up more than half the list of highest-grossing performers—and especially pop stars. Artists such as Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Beyoncé were leading the charge—their success not only leading to a new respect for female artists, but for pop stardom itself.
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-17
- Language: English
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Wings
- The Story of a Band on the Run
- Written by: Paul McCartney, Ted Widmer - editor
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
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As the Sixties came to a close, Paul McCartney was faced with the daunting prospect of being a solo artist for the first time. Wings’ ascension to the top of the charts with classic albums including Band on the Run, Venus and Mars, and At the Speed of Sound, along with the band’s stadium-filling live shows, would prove to critics and fans that not all great acts are impossible to follow. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run is a rousing, stereophonic celebration of the songs, collaborations and performances that would shape the soundtrack of the late twentieth century.
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Wings
- The Story of a Band on the Run
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2025-11-04
- Language: English
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