Bestsellers
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Brothers
- By: Alex van Halen
- Narrated by: Alex van Halen
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,678
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Performance1,546
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Story1,546
Featuring an exclusive, never-before-heard piece of music, the last written together by the legendary Van Halen brothers! In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and...
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Only a partial story!
- By Mr. C on 10-24-24
By: Alex van Halen
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Last Train to Memphis
- The Rise of Elvis Presley
- By: Peter Guralnick
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall752
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Performance663
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Story660
Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated. A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason...
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I'm an Elvis fan now
- By Vicki on 07-12-13
By: Peter Guralnick
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Wings
- The Story of a Band on the Run
- By: Paul McCartney, Ted Widmer - editor
- Narrated by: Amy Noble, Barry Sloane, John Sackville, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance51
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Story51
An engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the madcap story of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band.
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Be kind to yourself, buy the hard copy
- By Ellipooh on 12-28-25
By: Paul McCartney, and others
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Deliver Me from Nowhere (Movie Tie-In)
- The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
- By: Warren Zanes
- Narrated by: Warren Zanes
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall238
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Performance205
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Story205
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career—now with a new afterword Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) “Brilliant . . . For fans of American music...
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Much more than a “Making of” story…
- By W. Smith on 05-31-23
By: Warren Zanes
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The Dirt
- Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
- By: Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, and others
- Narrated by: Sebastian York, Roger Wayne, Fred Berman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,010
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Performance3,504
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Story3,484
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE. Celebrate over thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the audiobook edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography...
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1000x more detail than the movie
- By C. K. Lyons on 06-27-19
By: Tommy Lee, and others
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How Music Works
- By: David Byrne
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman, David Byrne
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall170
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Performance150
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Story150
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. “How Music Works is a...
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Kind of all over the place
- By Amazon Customer on 02-17-23
By: David Byrne
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Brothers
- By: Alex van Halen
- Narrated by: Alex van Halen
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,678
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Performance1,546
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Story1,546
Featuring an exclusive, never-before-heard piece of music, the last written together by the legendary Van Halen brothers! In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and...
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Only a partial story!
- By Mr. C on 10-24-24
By: Alex van Halen
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Last Train to Memphis
- The Rise of Elvis Presley
- By: Peter Guralnick
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall752
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Performance663
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Story660
Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated. A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason...
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I'm an Elvis fan now
- By Vicki on 07-12-13
By: Peter Guralnick
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Wings
- The Story of a Band on the Run
- By: Paul McCartney, Ted Widmer - editor
- Narrated by: Amy Noble, Barry Sloane, John Sackville, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance51
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Story51
An engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the madcap story of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band.
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Be kind to yourself, buy the hard copy
- By Ellipooh on 12-28-25
By: Paul McCartney, and others
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Deliver Me from Nowhere (Movie Tie-In)
- The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
- By: Warren Zanes
- Narrated by: Warren Zanes
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall238
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Performance205
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Story205
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career—now with a new afterword Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) “Brilliant . . . For fans of American music...
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Much more than a “Making of” story…
- By W. Smith on 05-31-23
By: Warren Zanes
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The Dirt
- Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
- By: Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, and others
- Narrated by: Sebastian York, Roger Wayne, Fred Berman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,010
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Performance3,504
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Story3,484
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE. Celebrate over thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the audiobook edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography...
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1000x more detail than the movie
- By C. K. Lyons on 06-27-19
By: Tommy Lee, and others
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How Music Works
- By: David Byrne
- Narrated by: Andrew Garman, David Byrne
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall170
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Performance150
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Story150
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. “How Music Works is a...
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Kind of all over the place
- By Amazon Customer on 02-17-23
By: David Byrne
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Raised on Radio
- Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola – the AOR Glory Years 1976-1986
- By: Paul Rees
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
A massively entertaining oral biography of the golden era of critically derided yet monumentally popular radio rock, when Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Toto, and more ruled the airwaves Paul Rees’s Raised on Radio is, remarkably, the first biography of AOR (“Album-Oriented Rock”)...
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Many bands ignored
- By Bobbin Beam on 03-23-26
By: Paul Rees
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Sing Backwards and Weep
- A Memoir
- By: Mark Lanegan
- Narrated by: Mark Lanegan
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,806
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Performance1,572
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Story1,567
This gritty bestselling memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, and Soulsavers documents his years as a singer and drug addict in Seattle in the '80s and '90s. When Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle in the mid-1980s, he was just "an arrogant...
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Love you, Mark
- By Andrew on 04-29-20
By: Mark Lanegan
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Perreo, una revolución
- By: Cazzu
- Narrated by: Cazzu
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall456
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Performance441
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Story441
Cazzu es una de las traperas más importantes de Latinoamérica. No es casual que la llamen La Jefa. No es casual que su perreo moleste a muchos, interpele a tantas, y no deje indiferente a nadie....
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Bella
- By Amazon Customer on 08-26-25
By: Cazzu
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- By: Nora Princiotti
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
An entertaining and deeply nostalgic dive into how female pop stars broke through the music industry in the 2000s and altered the cultural landscape forever, from the Ringer writer and Every Single Album podcast cohost “Hit Girls bridges our butterfly-clipped, bedazzled past with today’s...
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Love Nora!!
- By Amazon Customer on 06-24-25
By: Nora Princiotti
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Our Band Could Be Your Life
- Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
- By: Michael Azerrad
- Narrated by: Phil Elverum, Stephin Merritt, Jon Wurster, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall276
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Performance239
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Story238
The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that...
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Comprehenisve History of Some 1980s Indie Bands
- By Jeff Koeppen on 12-22-19
By: Michael Azerrad
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3 Shades of Blue
- Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
- By: James Kaplan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance127
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Story127
The National Bestseller One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year “A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles Times From the author of the definitive...
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Great deep dive into a pinnacle of jazz, marred by author bias against later jazz years
- By Michael J. Anderson on 04-08-24
By: James Kaplan
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Here Beside the Rising Tide
- Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
- By: Jim Newton
- Narrated by: Jim Newton
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance66
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Story66
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A MULANEY READS PICK A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band “By writing this book, Jim Newton informs the rest of the world what Deadheads have...
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Excellent!
- By Ken on 08-16-25
By: Jim Newton
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The Most Beautiful
- My Life with Prince
- By: Mayte Garcia
- Narrated by: Mayte Garcia
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,396
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Performance3,092
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Story3,078
Legendary musician Prince's first wife shares a uniquely intimate, candid, and revelatory look inside the personal and professional life of one of the world's most beloved icons. "An achingly loving memoir ... a heartbreaking inside look at the tortured side of genius that most of us are never...
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BOTH HEART WRENCHING AND WARMING! LOVED IT!!!!!
- By Annie The Audible Addict!!! on 04-07-17
By: Mayte Garcia
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Mood Machine
- The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
- By: Liz Pelly
- Narrated by: Liz Pelly
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance61
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Story61
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Winner of a Certificate of Merit from the 2025 ARSC Awards for Excellence A New Yorker, GQ, The Daily Telegraph (London), and Library Journal Best Book of 2025 A 2025 Washington Post Notable Nonfiction An NPR...
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Vocal fry
- By Anonymous on 01-19-25
By: Liz Pelly
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Tune In
- The Beatles: All These Years
- By: Mark Lewisohn
- Narrated by: Clive Mantle
- Length: 43 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,631
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Performance1,487
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Story1,485
Tune In is the first volume of All These Years—a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John...
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Insanely great
- By Tad Davis on 12-17-13
By: Mark Lewisohn
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The History of Jazz, Second Edition
- By: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall333
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Performance300
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Story298
Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic - acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world....
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An Exciting Opportunity Missed
- By Kindle Customer on 02-02-15
By: Ted Gioia
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A Long Strange Trip
- The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
- By: Dennis McNally
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 29 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall586
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Performance509
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Story510
From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture....
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Amazing story!
- By Michael Knoll on 11-04-18
By: Dennis McNally
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Such Great Heights
- The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
- By: Chris DeVille
- Narrated by: Chris DeVille
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance27
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Story27
The definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent—and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generation. This program is read by the author. Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of...
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Extremely informational with personal narration by author
- By holly starr slatinsky on 01-19-26
By: Chris DeVille
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
- Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- By: Lizzy Goodman
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall653
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Performance567
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Story563
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQ Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of...
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Deeply disappointing.
- By ChicagoRob on 01-18-20
By: Lizzy Goodman
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The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
- A Story of Survival
- By: Anne Sebba
- Narrated by: Anne Sebba, Helen Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story9
A 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Best Nonfiction Narrator! Moving and powerful, this is a vivid portrait of the women who came together to form an orchestra in order to survive the horrors of Auschwitz. New York Times bestselling author of Les Parisiennes and That Woman: A Life of Wallis Simpson...
By: Anne Sebba
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Hammer of the Gods
- The Led Zeppelin Saga
- By: Stephen Davis
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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Story30
The gold-standard biography of the band Led Zeppelin—revised and updated with new material for fans of the band and this beloved rock classic. “One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written.” —Chicago Tribune The members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock...
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Saga Is the Right Word!
- By Christina Dalcher on 11-30-24
By: Stephen Davis
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
- The History of the Disc Jockey
- By: Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance38
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Story38
This is the first comprehensive history of the disc jockey, a cult classic now updated with five new chapters and substantial additional material. It's the definitive account of DJ culture, from the first record played over airwaves to house, hip-hop, techno, and beyond. From the early...
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Phenomenal History of DJing and dance music
- By Nikolay Valtchanov on 02-14-21
By: Bill Brewster, and others
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Lollapalooza
- The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival
- By: Richard Bienstock, Tom Beaujour
- Narrated by: Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, Joshua Quinn, Kelli Tager, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance24
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Story24
The definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1990s alt-rock festival Lollapalooza―told by the musicians, roadies, and industry insiders who lived it—includes a foreword by Kim Thayil of Soundgarden! From the New York Times bestselling authors of Nothin’ But A Good Time. In Lollapalooza...
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91-95
- By F. Jeff B on 06-14-25
By: Richard Bienstock, and others
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Beethoven
- Anguish and Triumph
- By: Jan Swafford
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 39 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall229
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Performance198
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Story194
Jan Swafford's biographies have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life....
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Huge book - musical reader appreciates best
- By DMgraphicGlass on 01-20-15
By: Jan Swafford
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I Want My MTV
- The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
- By: Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,096
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Performance954
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Story951
I Want My MTV tells the story of the first decade of MTV, the golden era when MTV's programming was all videos, all the time, and kids watched religiously to see their favorite bands....
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The Most Entertaining Book of the Year
- By David on 10-24-12
By: Craig Marks, and others
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Hip-Hop Is History
- By: Questlove, Ben Greenman - contributor
- Narrated by: Questlove
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall101
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Performance95
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Story95
Long-listed, Carnegie Medal, 2024 Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2024 Long-listed, Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2024 Long-listed, Minneapolis Star Tribune Holiday Book Recommendations, 2024 Recorded at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City, the...
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Well done
- By AIRPORT on 10-04-24
By: Questlove, and others
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The Story of Us
- How the Taylor Swift Fandom Changed Our Lives
- By: Olivia Levin
- Narrated by: Olivia Levin
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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We've had the time of our lives as Swifties, and now that story-full of boundless joy, unexpected friendships, cherished memories, and wild theories-lives in this celebration of our fandom and the reason were all here: Taylor Swift. We all know how it started: A teenage girl from Pennsylvania...
By: Olivia Levin
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This Is What It Sounds Like
- What the Music You Love Says About You
- By: Ogi Ogas, Susan Rogers
- Narrated by: Susan Rogers
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall174
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Performance134
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Story134
Drawing from her successful career as a music producer (engineering hits like Prince’s “Purple Rain”), professor of cognitive neuroscience Susan Rogers reveals why your favorite songs move you....
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Needed to include the music
- By Sarah on 01-18-23
By: Ogi Ogas, and others
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Home Before Daylight
- My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead
- By: Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Bob Weir - Foreword
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall308
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Performance275
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Story275
Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island....
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Narrator-Blaa
- By MORGAN NOTEL on 10-06-19
By: Steve Parish, and others
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Raised on Radio
- Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola – the AOR Glory Years 1976-1986
- By: Paul Rees
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
A massively entertaining oral biography of the golden era of critically derided yet monumentally popular radio rock, when Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Toto, and more ruled the airwaves Paul Rees’s Raised on Radio is, remarkably, the first biography of AOR (“Album-Oriented Rock”)...
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Many bands ignored
- By Bobbin Beam on 03-23-26
By: Paul Rees
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Us v. Them
- The Age of Indie Music and a Decade in New York (2004-2014)
- By: Ronen Givony
- Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Just Kids, Ronen Givony's Us v. Them chronicles the generation of young artists who came to Brooklyn in the mid-2000s: a small but seismic scene that coalesced under a billionaire mayor, a series of forever wars, and a music industry in free fall. In tandem with the impresarios and unlicensed venues that lined the Williamsburg waterfront, combining elements of noise and pop, a few became unlikely superstars. Meanwhile, countless flared and vanished, reminders of an unusually fertile moment—the age of indie—that now means little more than a term of marketing.
By: Ronen Givony
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This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll
- Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich
- By: Daniel Rachel
- Narrated by: Daniel Rachel
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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OVER THE LAST SEVEN DECADES, one of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall kitting themselves out in Nazi uniforms to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious brandishing swastikas in the pomp of punk...
By: Daniel Rachel
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Shake It Up, Baby!
- The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963
- By: Ken McNab
- Narrated by: Luke R. Francis
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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A vivid, captivating account of the Beatles's musical transformation throughout the pivotal year of 1963, as the world became caught up in the maelstrom of Beatlemania and its far-reaching cultural impact. The Beatles broke up more than half a century ago, yet millions around the globe are still...
By: Ken McNab
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CHRISTIAN MUSIC APPRECIATION
- History, Theology, Genres, and Contemporary Culture
- By: David Angeron, James Sang Lee
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Christian Music Appreciation: History, Theology, Genres, and Contemporary Culture provides a comprehensive, academically grounded exploration of the development of Christian music from biblical foundations to the digital streaming era. This college-level textbook traces the evolution of Christian musical expression across centuries and cultures—beginning with Hebrew psalmody and early church hymnody, progressing through Gregorian chant and Reformation chorales, examining Baroque sacred masterpieces and revival hymnody, and analyzing the emergence of African American spirituals, gospel ...
By: David Angeron, and others
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Silhouettes and Shadows
- The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- By: Adam Steiner
- Narrated by: Dom Coyote
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Standing at the bleeding edge of the new decade between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s wildly successful Let’s Dance, it was here Bowie sought to bury the ghosts of his past and the golden decade of the 1970s to become a global superstar reaching millions of new fans. Featuring fresh insights and exclusive interviews with close collaborators, Adam Steiner’s Silhouettes and Shadows uncovers the studio stories, meanings behind, and secret history of Scary Monsters...
By: Adam Steiner
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Raised on Radio
- Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola – the AOR Glory Years 1976-1986
- By: Paul Rees
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- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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Performance8
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A massively entertaining oral biography of the golden era of critically derided yet monumentally popular radio rock, when Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Toto, and more ruled the airwaves Paul Rees’s Raised on Radio is, remarkably, the first biography of AOR (“Album-Oriented Rock”)...
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By: Paul Rees
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Us v. Them
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This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll
- Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich
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OVER THE LAST SEVEN DECADES, one of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theater of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and Vivian Stanshall kitting themselves out in Nazi uniforms to Siouxsie Sioux and Sid Vicious brandishing swastikas in the pomp of punk...
By: Daniel Rachel
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Shake It Up, Baby!
- The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963
- By: Ken McNab
- Narrated by: Luke R. Francis
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid, captivating account of the Beatles's musical transformation throughout the pivotal year of 1963, as the world became caught up in the maelstrom of Beatlemania and its far-reaching cultural impact. The Beatles broke up more than half a century ago, yet millions around the globe are still...
By: Ken McNab
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CHRISTIAN MUSIC APPRECIATION
- History, Theology, Genres, and Contemporary Culture
- By: David Angeron, James Sang Lee
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Christian Music Appreciation: History, Theology, Genres, and Contemporary Culture provides a comprehensive, academically grounded exploration of the development of Christian music from biblical foundations to the digital streaming era. This college-level textbook traces the evolution of Christian musical expression across centuries and cultures—beginning with Hebrew psalmody and early church hymnody, progressing through Gregorian chant and Reformation chorales, examining Baroque sacred masterpieces and revival hymnody, and analyzing the emergence of African American spirituals, gospel ...
By: David Angeron, and others
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Silhouettes and Shadows
- The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- By: Adam Steiner
- Narrated by: Dom Coyote
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Standing at the bleeding edge of the new decade between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s wildly successful Let’s Dance, it was here Bowie sought to bury the ghosts of his past and the golden decade of the 1970s to become a global superstar reaching millions of new fans. Featuring fresh insights and exclusive interviews with close collaborators, Adam Steiner’s Silhouettes and Shadows uncovers the studio stories, meanings behind, and secret history of Scary Monsters...
By: Adam Steiner