Music audiobooks

Die ZEIT-Edition - Große Klassik kinderleicht, Rhapsody in Blue - Ein modernes Musikexperiment

By: George Gershwin

Narrated by: Luca Zamperoni

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit "Rhapsody in Blue" hat der auf Musicals spezialisierte amerikanische Komponist George Gershwin 1924 etwas ganz Neues geschaffen, bei dem spielerisch Blues, Jazz und klassische Musik ineinanderfließen. Die Musikwelt ist begeistert. Das Leben von George Gershwin und seiner Familie im New Yorker Stadtteil Brooklyn und die schillernde... Read more

Why Lhasa de Sela Matters

By: Fred Goodman

Narrated by: Lori Felipe-Barkin

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An artist in every sense of the word, Lhasa de Sela wowed audiences around the globe with her multilingual songs and spellbinding performances, mixing together everything from Gypsy music to Mexican rancheras, Americana and jazz, chanson française, and South American folk melodies. In Canada, her album La Llorona won the Juno Award and went... Read more

Why the Ramones Matter

By: Donna Gaines

Narrated by: Curt Bonnem

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who’s somehow defective, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing. The fans, argues Donna Gaines, got it right away, from their own experience of alienation at home, at school, on the streets, and from themselves. This sense of estrangement... Read more

Cross the Tracks

By: Boosie Badazz

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of rap’s most evocative writers comes a stirring memoir and “masterpiece of a book” (Snoop Dogg) about how Boosie Badazz, one of the industry’s most controversial figures, was able to overcome insurmountable odds to make his music dreams a reality.

A Baton Rouge native who began rapping at age fourteen, Boosie Badazz was already a cult... Read more

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

By: Tanya Pearson

Narrated by: Corinne Davies

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

First as a doe-eyed ingénue with “As Tears Go By,” then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-less icon, Marianne Faithfull carved her name into the history of rock ’n’ roll to chart a career spanning five decades and multiple detours. In Why Marianne... Read more

Faith, Hope and Carnage

By: Nick Cave & Seán O'Hagan

Narrated by: Nick Cave & Seán O'Hagan

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the authors. Featuring sixteen musical codas and elements from the Carnage, Skeleton Tree and Ghosteen albums, it also includes an exclusive, additional 12-minute conversation between Cave and O’Hagan about the production of the recording.

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life.

Created from more... Read more

This Is What It Sounds Like

By: Ogi Ogas & Susan Rogers

Narrated by: Susan Rogers

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles, rose to become... Read more

Me and Paul

By: Willie Nelson

Narrated by: Webb Wilder

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories of Willie Nelson and Paul English's misadventures became legendary, but many have gone untold—until now.Immortalized in Willie Nelson's road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering figure who acted as Willie's drummer, bodyguard, accountant, partner in crime, and right-hand man for 70 years.Together, the two men roamed the... Read more

Later ... With Jools Holland

By: Mark Cooper

Narrated by: Mark Cooper

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

’You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later…’ Nick Cave ‘Later… is a voyage of discovery for us as well as the viewers’ Dave Grohl Dave Grohl and Alicia Keys loved it, Björk treasured it, Ed Sheeran’s life was changed by it, Kano felt at home while Nick Cave was... 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

Öhrchen auf! Meine schönsten Weihnachtslieder

By: Rainer Bielfeldt

Narrated by: Rainer Bielfeldt

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Weihnachten steht vor der Tür: Schneeflocken legen sich auf Wald und Feld und drinnen geht ein kuscheliges, gemütliches Licht vom Adventskranz aus. Fehlen nur noch stimmungsvolle Melodien, die den Raum erfüllen und das gemeinsame Singen zu einem wunderbaren Erlebnis machen. Diese 21 beliebten Weihnachts- und Winterlieder sind ein toller... Read more

Hungry Beat

By: Douglas MacIntyre & Grant McPhee

Narrated by: Angus King, Debbie Cannon, Guy Satchwell, Jimmy...

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

'Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many of the players remain, and here they tell their story and lick their wounds' Ian Rankin

The immense cultural contribution made by two maverick... Read more

Whatever It Takes

By: Stephen Stohn

Narrated by: Stephen Stohn & Christopher Ward

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This book will change the way you think about success. Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion. Stohn, who has been at the heart of the... Read more

Becoming Billie Holiday

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

Narrated by: Channie Waites

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 7, 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter. She named her Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey into legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she... Read more

Like a Rolling Stone

By: Jann S. Wenner

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris & Jann S. Wenner

Length: 17 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen). Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.”

His deeply personal memoir vividly... Read more

George Michael

By: James Gavin

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid—for a time—the... Read more

None of This Rocks

By: Joe Trohman

Narrated by: Joe Trohman

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy shares personal stories from his youth and his experiences of modern rock and roll stardom in this memoir filled with wit and wisdom.  Trohman cofounded Fall Out Boy with Pete Wentz in the early aughts, and he’s been the sticky element of the metaphorical glue-like substance holding the band together... Read more

Nightfly

By: Peter Jones

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972.



The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan internationally popular and famous in the 1970s, but the polish glossed over the underlying layers of anger, disappointment, sleaze, and often... Read more

Music Business & Marketing Accelerator Using Instagram

By: Chris Greenwood

Narrated by: Chris Greenwood

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Gone are the days of traveling thousands of miles & driving hundreds of hours as the only way to build your fanbase. Now within arm’s reach, you can grab your smartphone, upload your music, & reach millions of fans globally with Instagram. As the artist Manafest, I have posted over 3,931 videos & photos, selling over 30,000 albums... Read more

101 Amazing Facts about BTS

By: Merlin Mill

Narrated by: Lizzie Abbott

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know how much BTS contribute to the South Korean economy each year? What Spotify record does the band hold? What video game has Jin played since he was five years old? And which alternative stage names did Jungkook consider before settling on the one we all know and love?In this fantastic audiobook, Lizzie Abbott talks us through more... Read more

Fais dodo dans un bayou de la Louisiane !

By: Bïa Krieger

Narrated by: Bïa Krieger

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tous les samedis soir, un jeune musicien opossum mène le bal au Fais dodo Thibaudeau avec son orchestre. Dans l’assistance, une belle demoiselle succombe peu à peu au charme du petit gars aux moustaches de Zorro qui joue de la dobro. Qui se cache derrière ces marsupiaux hauts en couleur ? Mama et papa Poss vous raconteront leur histoire d’amour... Read more

Glitter & Grit

By: Paula Moore

Narrated by: Paula Moore

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Paula Moore was the first female A&R research executive in the music industry. Before she started her latest venture, she held Vice President of A&R executive roles at two major label groups Universal and Warner Music, and built the industry’s first A&R research platform, Flypaper, connecting A&R executive staff, scouts, artists,... Read more

Two Types Of Fans

By: Ayaz Aftab Hussain

Narrated by: Ayaz Aftab Hussain

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you could steal the bulletproof system viral musicians use to grow 1,000 superfans across Instagram and TikTok... on autopilot while you sleep?It doesn't matter how many followers you have! You can use the EXACT blueprint that viral musicians applyto gain a HUGE audience and get your music heard starting as soon as TONIGHT…... Read more

Life Lessons from Hip-Hop

By: Grant Brydon

Narrated by: Grant Brydon

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Adopt a hip-hop mindset to take control of your own narrative and become the best version of yourself with 50 must-read lessons on creativity and self-help that will inspire a new generation.

Grant Brydon has interviewed some of the biggest names in hip-hop. Here he shares the creative directions and tips derived from one-on-one conversations... Read more