Music audiobooks

Tell It Like It Is

By: Aaron Neville

Narrated by: Aaron Neville

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, legendary singer and songwriter Aaron Neville tells his personal story of overcoming poverty, racism, addiction, and loss through faith, family, and music.

Aaron Neville’s first #1 hit, “Tell It Like it Is,” was released in 1966. In the mid-70s he formed the Neville Brothers with Art, Charles, and Cyril—now known as the... Read more

A Feast Beneath the Moon

By: Christiane Duchesne

Narrated by: Mischa Cheeseman

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time there were four friends who always had oodles and oodles of fun together. After their last adventure full of surprises, a sudden torrential rainfall forces Bertie and gang to take shelter atop Blue Mountain. When they emerge, they encounter an extraordinary girl named Alice, who can grow big or small at the snap of her fingers.... Read more

Partis pour la gloire à La Nouvelle-Orléans !

By: Bïa Krieger

Narrated by: Bïa Krieger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Partez en voyage avec une attachante famille d’opossums qui a roulé sa bosse partout en Amérique ! Du fleuve Mississippi jusqu’à Storyville, là où le jazz à pris son envol, Mama et Papa Poss poursuivent le récit de leur odyssée musicale à travers le continent. Ils nous racontent cette fois-ci un périple qui les a menés des bayous... Read more

Grand Chief Salamoo Cook is Coming to Town!

By: Tomson Highway

Narrated by: Jimmy Blais

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a magical time, a young rabbit named Weeskits hurried home to Kisoos—a town known as the Earth's belly button—to deliver some thrilling news. Salamoo Cook, the Grand Chief of all rabbits in the world, was on his way to announce a mysterious contest. The prize? A year's supply of all-healing waaskee-choos juice fresh from spruce cones... Read more

Rockin' the Bayou Down in Louisiana!

By: Bïa Krieger

Narrated by: Alexa Devine

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Every Saturday night at the Fais Dodo Thibaudeau, a suave young possum with a Zorro-like moustache takes the stage with his dobro to lead the band. In the audience, a pretty, doe-eyed possum falls for his charms. But just who could these plucky marsupials be? Mama and Papa Poss tell the story of how they first met and where their glory days as a... Read more

The Girl in the Band

By: Belinda Chapple

Narrated by: Belinda Chapple

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story Bardot’s Belinda Chapple has wanted to tell for twenty years – a cautionary tale of exploitation and heartbreak.

In 2000, millions of Australians tuned in to watch Popstars, one of the world’s first reality television competitions, in which five girls were selected from thousands to become members of a new band: Bardot. And... Read more

Tell Her She's Dreamin'

By: Simone Amelia Jordan

Narrated by: Simone Amelia Jordan

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more.

Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a scholarship student from the wrong side of the... Read more

Rags and Bones

By: Jeff Sellars & Kevin C. Neece

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

After performing with Ronnie Hawkins as the Hawks (1957–1964), The Band (Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, and Levon Helm) eventually rose to fame in the sixties as backing musicians for Bob Dylan. This collaboration with Dylan presented the group with a chance to expand musically and strike out on their own. The Band's... Read more

Time's Echo

By: Jeremy Eichler

Narrated by: Jeremy Eichler & Sherrill Milnes

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR • WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS • Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past • SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR

In 1785, when the great German poet... Read more

How Do Rumors Get Started

By: Marcus A. Thompson

Narrated by: Jason C. Johnson Sr.

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1986, the song "Rumors" by Timex Social Club dominated the radio airwaves, topping all Billboard magazine urban charts with the number position for Hot 100 Black Singles, Hot Black Singles - Sales, Hot Black Singles-Airplay, Hot Dance/Disco-Club Play, and Hot Dance/Disco-12 inch singles sales.This was no small feat for four... Read more

Chita \ (Spanish edition)

By: Chita Rivera

Narrated by: Natalia Guadarrama

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Las memorias tan esperadas y tremendamente entretenidas de la leyenda del escenario Chita Rivera, tres veces ganadora del premio Tony, homenajeada en los Centros Kennedy y ganadora de la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad.Era conocida como Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, hasta que Broadway le cambió el nombre. Pero Dolores, el lado... Read more

Mozart in Motion

By: Patrick Mackie

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand of his music, and what can it reveal to us about the great composer?



Following Mozart from his youth in Salzburg to his early death; from his close and rivalrous relationship with his father to his romantic attachments; from his hugely... Read more

The Blues

By: Elijah Wald

Narrated by: Brian Telestai

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture.



It has been defined by lyrical structure, or as a progression of chords, or as a set of practices reflecting West African "tonal and rhythmic... Read more

101 Amazing Facts About the Foo Fighters

By: Jack Goldstein & Frankie Taylor

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you the world's biggest Foo Fighters fan? Or do you want to discover some interesting facts about Dave Grohl's band, generally considered to be the best rock act in the entire world? If so, then this is the audiobook for you! Contained within are more than one hundred amazing facts about everything, from the band’s formation and early days... Read more

Echoes

By: Will Sergeant

Narrated by: Will Sergeant

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

THE FOLLOW UP MEMOIR TO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, BUNNYMAN

Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo & the Bunnymen hit the studio to record their ground-breaking debut album, Crocodiles, it was anything but ordinary. The album was the making of the band - cultivating a cult following which would soon... Read more

Rocking in the Free World

By: Nicholas Tochka

Narrated by: Derek Dysart

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free.



Rocking in the... Read more

21-Hit Wonder

By: Sam Hollander

Narrated by: Sam Hollander

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of the most renowned songwriters and producers in the game, Sam Hollander has had multi-platinum success writing and producing for the likes of Panic! At The Disco, Fitz and the Tantrums, Weezer, Katy Perry, Train, One Direction, Blink-182, Daughtry, Ringo Starr, Carole King, Gym Class Heroes, and many others.
But rising up the charts... Read more

Domesticated

By: James Domestic

Narrated by: James Domestic

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this often witty, sometimes furious, and sometimes downright surreal collection, James Domestic does - as per usual - whatever the hell he likes, with poetry, prose, and lyrics, all thrown into the mix with abandon. Punk, politics, habit, the nature of work, the environment, nostalgia, aging, and some quintessentially British whimsy, all... Read more

Schöner bunter Lieder-Herbst - Abridged

By: Matthias Meyer-Göllner & Robert Metcalf

Narrated by: Susan Ertel

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hurra, der Herbst ist da! Es sich bei Wind und Wetter zu Hause gemütlich machen, singen und träumen - das geht am besten mit Liedern, die auf den Herbst einstimmen. Gemeinsam wird der Regen besungen, an Tiere wie den Igel, die Schnecke und den Bären gedacht und der Martinsumzug musikalisch begleitet. Hier ist für jede Stimmung etwas dabei.... Read more

Art and Music

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This combination of books contains information about the following people:
George Stephenson - George Stephenson was a British civil and mechanical engineer who lived from June the 9th 1781 to August the 12th 1848. Stephenson, called the "Dad of Railways," was regarded by Victorians as a great example of exertion and a desire to enhance. Samuel... Read more

Transelectric

By: Cidny Bullens

Narrated by: Cidny Bullens & Calum MacColl

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

An androgynous gender-bending musician from the get-go, Cidny Bullens toured extensively with Sir Elton John and performed with Bob Dylan, undergoing a complete immersion in the drug-fueled excesses of 1970s rock 'n' roll. Despite getting sober, climbing the charts with the Grammy-nominated Survivor, as well as a Grammy nomination for his lead... Read more

This Boy

By: Ilene Cooper

Narrated by: Stewart Crank

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An inside look at the early lives of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, This Boy is a perfect book for any young reader embracing their inner Beatlemania.

Meant for younger readers, This Boy is a gripping biography of two musical legends. Beginning with their births during World War II England and ending with their famous performance on The Ed... Read more

Schoenberg

By: Harvey Sachs

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers.



In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however,... Read more

Kick Out the Jams

By: Dave Marsh

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation.

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... Read more