Working on a Song
By: Anaïs Mitchell
Narrated by: Anaïs Mitchell & Steve Earle
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"Working On A Song is one of the best books about lyric writing for the theater I've read."—Lin-Manuel Miranda
Anaïs Mitchell named to TIME's List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World of 2020
An illuminating book of lyrics and stories from Hadestown—the winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical—from its author, songwriter... Read more
Hip-Hop Is History
By: Questlove
Narrated by: Questlove
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"[Questlove's] performance is a comfortable blend of pro-level reading and genuine enthusiasm that is punctuated with tasty sound effects and quotes delivered by an unnamed voice talent. Along with his keen insights on racial politics and culture, his easy-to-hear performance will make listeners feel like they... Read more
Sondheim
By: Stephen M. Silverman
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway legend. "Aside from Sondheim's own exceptional books...this may be the best coffee-table volume devoted to his work."(Shelf Awareness) Brimming with insights from a veritable Who's Who of... Read more
View audiobookStill Here
By: Alexandra Jacobs
Narrated by: Andréa Burns
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Andrea Burns is amazing! Her performance of NEW YORK TIMES editor Jacobs's charming, well-researched look at the life of actor Elaine Stritch (19252014) is at once intelligent, amusing, and illuminating...Wonderfully entertaining listening." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
The ebullient, troubled life of a Broadway... Read more
Acid for the children
By: Flea
Narrated by: Marco Lubián
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestseller en The New York Times Bestseller #1 en LA Times Bestseller #1 en Biografías de Músicos de Jazz en Amazon EUA Selección 2019 de NPR Audiolibro original nominado al Grammy 2021 como mejor álbum spoken word «Flea es un escritor cautivador, con un don particular que flota libremente y reverbera. Escribe en explosiones y epifanías... Read more
View audiobookNot Starring Zadie Louise
By: Joy McCullough
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Zadie loves Tae Kwon Do, comic books, and outer space. She also loves visiting the community theater that her mom runs, especially the lighting grid over the stage and the stage manager’s booth, which is filled with levers and buttons like a spaceship control panel. So when the family’s finances suffer a blow and Zadie has to give up her usual... Read more
View audiobookRevolutions in American Music
By: Michael Broyles
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
How did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock 'n' roll really come from? And how do all these things continue to reverberate in today's world?
In Revolutions in American Music, award-winning author Michael Broyles shows the... Read more
Symphony for a Broken Orchestra
By: Amy Ignatow
Narrated by: Tyla Collier & Robert Blackson
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The schools of Philadelphia were filling up with broken violins, drums, pianos, and more, making it difficult for students to learn to play. This sparked an idea for a symphony, played entirely with the broken instruments, that would raise funds to repair the instruments themselves. Musicians young and old volunteered, and their captivating... Read more
View audiobookMe
By: Elton John
Narrated by: Elton John & Taron Egerton
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend.
Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses... Read more
Pete the Cat: The Petes Go Marching
By: James Dean & Kimberly Dean
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 5 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestseller James Dean puts a groovy spin to the classic children’s song “The Ants Go Marching"" with everyone's favorite cool cat. Join Pete the Cat as he rocks out to this classic tune with a supercool twist .Your child, or even your classroom of children, is sure to want to march along with Pete, 1, 2, 3! Read more
View audiobookMiracle and Wonder
By: Malcolm Gladwell & Bruce Headlam
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam & Paul Simon
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is unlike any artistic portrait you’ve ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Malcolm Gladwell, and Broken Record podcast co-host Bruce Headlam, the conversation flows from Simon’s music to his childhood in Queens, NY, his frequent collaborators... Read more
View audiobook3 Shades of Blue
By: James Kaplan
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The national bestseller!
“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 biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of... Read more
Echo
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall & David de Vries
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
2016 Newbery Honor BookNew York Times BestsellerAn impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force from a treasured storyteller!Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.Decades later, Friedrich in Germany,... Read more
View audiobookDolly Parton, Songteller
By: Dolly Parton
Narrated by: Dolly Parton
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recorded Books Audio Original production of songs and stories performed by Dolly herself, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics goes beyond the glitz, glamour, and rhinestones to the warmth, heart, and soul of a treasured pop-culture icon.In this exclusive audio performance, the ten-time Grammy Award–winning artist weaves her words with... Read more
View audiobookReckless Daughter
By: David Yaffe
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Joni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty of their language and the rawness of their emotions, both deeply personal to Mitchell and universally relatable to her audience. In this intimate... Read more
View audiobookOur Band Could Be Your Life
By: Michael Azerrad
Narrated by: Phil Elverum, Stephin Merritt, Jon Wurster, Cor...
Length: 21 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
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 happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties --... Read more
Behind the Seams
By: Dolly Parton
Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren & Rebecca Seaver
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories, interviews with friends and family, music, and archival interview and performance clips.
In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for... Read more
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?
By: Chris Payne
Narrated by: Graham Halstead & Chris Abell
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
An explosive oral history of emo’s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuringMY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MOREIf Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000’s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the... Read more
View audiobookHolding the Note
By: David Remnick
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey & David Remnick
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time—intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more.
The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing... Read more
Stories I Might Regret Telling You
By: Martha Wainwright
Narrated by: Martha Wainwright
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A singer-songwriter's heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-acclaimed and genre-defying singer Rufus Wainwright,... Read more
View audiobookShe Come By It Natural
By: Sarah Smarsh
Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
In this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “analyzes how Dolly Parton’s songs—and success—have embodied feminism for working-class women” (People).
Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular... Read more
Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Riveting, elegant, and humorous, New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by... Read more
More Fun in the New World
By: John Doe & Tom Desavia
Narrated by: John Doe, Tom Desavia & Various
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Sequel to Grammy-nominated bestseller Under the Big Black Sun, continuing the up-close and personal account of the L.A. punk scene
Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.'s punk rock movement as its stars took to the national -- and... Read more
Living in the Woods in a Tree
By: Sybil Rosen
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Living in the Woods in a Tree is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949–1989), seen through the eyes of Sybil Rosen, the woman for whom he wrote his most widely known song, "If I Could Only Fly." It captures the exuberance of their fleeting idyll in a tree house in the Georgia woods during the... Read more
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