Music audiobooks

Limelight

By: Martin Popoff

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Part two of the definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North—covering Rush's most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows



In the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the '70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and... Read more

Twisted Business

By: Jay Jay French & Steve Farber

Narrated by: Phil Thron

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In addition to founding Twisted Sister, a world-famous heavy metal band that has sold more than 20 million records worldwide, Jay Jay French is one of the top entrepreneurs in entertainment. After taking over as manager in the 70s, French developed Twisted Sister into the most heavily licensed heavy metal band in history.



Part business book, part... Read more

This Was Toscanini

By: Samuel Antek & Lucy Antek Johnson

Narrated by: David Garrison & Lucy Antek Johnson

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio edition includes excerpts from NBC Symphony performances conducted by Maestro Toscanini! “Music lovers will find this book irresistible ... the writing is gorgeous, the characters are well-sculpted, the scenes are focused, and the author brings to life moments that music aficionados will savor for a long time. The book itself is a... Read more

Fugazi's In on the Kill Taker

By: Joe Gross

Narrated by: Rob Vlock

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two albums (1990's genre-defining Repeater and 1991's impressionistic follow-up Steady Diet of Nothing) inside... Read more

The Half of It

By: Madison Beer

Narrated by: Madison Beer

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir from singer-songwriter Madison Beer, chronicling the past decade of her life spent in the spotlight—the ups, the downs, and the in-betweens that you won’t see on social media.Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented online. Over the past decade, she has navigated the... Read more

Radiohead's OK Computer

By: Dai Griffiths

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Seemingly granted ‘classic album’ status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transformed Radiohead from a highly promising rock act into The Most Important Band in the World – a label the band has been burdened by (and has fooled around with) ever since. Through close musical analysis of each song, Dai Griffiths explores the themes... Read more

Time Between

By: Chris Hillman

Narrated by: Chris Hillman & Dwight Yoakam

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

As a co-founder of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, Chris Hillman is arguably the primary architect of what’s come to be known as country rock. He went on to record and perform in various configurations, including as a member of Stephen Stills’s Manassas and as a co-founder of The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. In the 1980s he formed The... Read more

Act One

By: James Lapine

Narrated by: Paul Culos, Heidi Dippold, Jake Green, Jane Kac...

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A boy from the Bronx becomes the toast of Broadway. Moss Hart’s classic stage autobiography is brought to life, with his son Christopher directing, in a story that illuminates the early years of one of theater’s great humorists.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring:

Paul Culos as Eddie, Sam Harris, and Regan
Heidi Dippold as Lillie... Read more

Special Deluxe

By: Neil Young

Narrated by: Neil Young

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect gift for music and car lovers, Special Deluxe is Neil Young's New York Times bestselling follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace that “reads like a great Neil Young song plays.” (The Buffalo News) 

In this acclaimed new memoir, New York Times bestselling author Neil Young has fashioned another extraordinary work of reminiscences told through... Read more

Who Is Bad Bunny?

By: G. M. Taboas Zayas & Who HQ

Narrated by: Luis Vega

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn about Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny and his incredible career in this book from Who HQ Now, the series featuring the trending topics and news makers of today.

Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is one of today's most popular artists. He made his start posting his music on Soundcloud, and in 2016, his song "Diles" got... Read more

Minute Waltz (Chopin)

By: Bill Brown

Narrated by: Bill Brown

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this lesson you will learn a late intermediate level arrangement of one of Chopin’s most enjoyed pieces. The arrangement is played completely and then taught in two- to four-measure sections using no print or music. Learning this song “by ear” makes it fast to learn and easy to memorize. Read more

Signifying Rappers

By: David Foster Wallace & Mark Costello

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.

Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop."

The book they wrote... Read more

Nina Simone's Gum

By: Warren Ellis

Narrated by: Ann Demeulemeester, David Noonan, Francis Uprit...

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR

From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum.

FEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK CAVE

'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from... Read more

Blake Shelton

By: Carol Cash Large

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Carol Cash Large, longtime friend of Blake Shelton, helped move the award-winning musician to Nashville just two weeks after he graduated high school at the tender age of seventeen and has been with him every step of the way since. In Blake Shelton: Happy Anywhere, she takes you backstage for personal and unique insight into the life of the... 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

Olive and the Backstage Ghost

By: Michelle Schusterman

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A ghost story with a literary heart for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book. Theater kids and ghost-story readers alike will find new meaning in the term stage fright.
 
All great theaters have their ghosts. . . .
 
After Olive Preiss freezes during a theater camp audition, she flees in despair. She finds herself at Maudeville,... Read more

Hummelflug und Bärentanz

By: Marko Simsa

Narrated by: Marko Simsa

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Die klassische Musik steckt voller lustiger, spannender und bezaubernder Tiermotive. Mit kurzen Erzählungen zu jedem Stück führt Marko Simsa spielerisch ins große musikalische Reich der Tiere. Und wer will, kann gerne fleißig mittanzen, mithüpfen, mitzwitschern und mitsingen. Aus dem Inhalt: Vogelquartett (Haydn) • Die Forelle (Schubert) •... Read more

A Secret Escape to Sunshine Island

By: Georgina Troy

Narrated by: Emma Powell

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the sunshine island - where the beaches are golden, the lifestyle is perfect and anything is possible.Popstar Matteo Stanford is eager to escape to the sunshine island to catch up with his old friend Alex and secretly film his latest music video. But within moments of landing, the location for the shoot is leaked to the press, and his... Read more

Sie Düffeldoffel da! Herbert Wehner - Ein komischer Heiliger

By: Jürgen Roth

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert Wehner war ein Jahrhundertpolitiker, ein Mensch, an dem sich die Weltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts bricht. Er war Sozialist, Anarchist, Kommunist, Widerstandskämpfer in Deutschland und in der Emigration. 1946 trat er in die SPD ein und gehörte von 1949 bis 1983 dem Deutschen Bundestag an. Wehner liebte das Parlament. Er hielt... Read more

Metallica - Rock School mit Andy Brings, Folge 3 (ungekürzt)

By: Andy Brings & Rock Classics Magazin

Narrated by: Andy Brings, Mille Petrozza & Matthias Prill

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"ROCK SCHOOL" geht heavy weiter mit der Band, die so groß ist, dass man versucht ist zu sagen, "and nothing else matters." Die Rede ist natürlich von "METALLICA"! Am 20.01.23 erscheint endlich die neue Folge ROCK SCHOOL mit Andy Brings und den Gästen Mille Petrozza (KREATOR) sowie Veranstalter Matthias Prill, der die unschuldige Anfangszeit der... Read more

Sports Workout: Volume 2

By: Antonio Smith

Narrated by: Smith Show Media Productions

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Smith Show Media presents Sports Workout: Volume 2 written by Antonio Smith. This collection of fitness music is perfectly mixed, set at just the right pace to help you perform a high-energy, body-moving workout. Read more

Woody Guthrie

By: Gustavus Stadler

Narrated by: Jeff Zinn

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Dismantles the Woody Guthrie we have been taught—the rough-and-ready rambling’ man—to reveal an artist who discovered how intimacy is crucial for political struggle

Woody Guthrie is often mythologized as the classic American “rambling’ man,” a real-life Steinbeckian folk hero who fought for working-class interests and inspired Bob Dylan.... Read more

Everything Was Possible

By: Ted Chapin

Narrated by: Jonathan Groff

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

As the sole production assistant for Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, Ted Chapin had a front row seat for the creation of one of the most important American musicals of all time. He kept a detailed journal of his experiences, and his rich storehouse of
memories forms the core of Everything Was Possible, which itself has become a modern classic of... Read more

Alan & Marilyn Bergman

By: Wink Martindale

Narrated by: Wink Martindale

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

For Alan and Marilyn Bergman, being married and working together as songwriters had many perks. The two found that their relationship allowed them to be uninhibited in sharing ideas while crafting a song. In this interview recorded with Wink Martindale in the 1980s, they discussed their lives, lyrics and careers as songwriters. The couple... Read more