Music audiobooks

Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

Narrated by: Kim Gordon

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just... Read more

The Ant and the Grasshopper

By: Rebecca Emberley

Narrated by: Matthew Brown

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

While hard at work on her chores, an ant hears the wonderful clickety click chirrup of music coming from the distance. Although she knows she should focus on the task at hand, she can't help but explore the joyful noise! Award-winning team Rebecca and Ed Emberley bring an entertaining new twist to the classic children's. The bright, bold... Read more

Into the Black

By: Paul Brannigan & Ian Winwood

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The final chapter of Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood's in-depth coverage of Metallica details the latter half of the band's extraordinary, decades-long career.The second volume of Metallica's definitive biography opens as the band breaks through to mainstream with its fifth album, Metallica (a.k.a. The Black Album), topping the Billboard charts... Read more

Kansas City Lightning

By: Stanley Crouch

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.Throughout his life, Charlie Parker personified the tortured American... Read more

Words Will Break Cement

By: Masha Gessen

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on liesOn February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed a "punk prayer" beseeching the "Mother of God" to "get rid of Putin." They were quickly shut down... Read more

The Tanning of America

By: Steve Stoute

Narrated by: Kerry Washington

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer—the tan generation.When Fortune 500 companies need to reenergize or reinvent a lagging brand, they call Steve Stoute. In addition to marrying cultural icons with blue-chip marketers, Stoute has... Read more

More “The Wheels on the Bus”

By: AudioGO

Narrated by: Brian Jones & Susan Boyce

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A fun collection of songs and rhymes for everyone to enjoy and join in with! More “The Wheels on the Bus” includes:The Wheels on the BusDown at the StationOne, Two, Buckle My ShoeThe Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley Oh1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I Caught a Fish AliveMary, Mary, Quite ContraryPat-a-CakeHey Diddle DiddleMiss Polly Had a DollySimple... Read more

Rock Star

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

To Tim Anderson, playing the guitar is as natural—and just about as important—as breathing. He's already decided he's going to be a musician. But his father has other career plans for him—all involving college. And now, because Tim is on the verge of flunking math, he's been forbidden even to touch his guitar. It couldn't have happened at a... Read more

Songlab

By: Alex Forbes

Narrated by: Alex Forbes

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Created exclusively with and for teen musicians, this hands-on, step-by-step program uses insight, enthusiasm, and humor to teach teens how to brainstorm ideas, craft effective lyrics, and put those lyrics to music. An award-winning and Billboard-charting songwriter and teacher, Alex Forbes has taught dozens of teens via her Manhattan workshops... Read more

The Jazz Kid

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: August Ross

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Paulie Horvath is never going to be a good student like his brother, John, never going to follow his hardworking father into the plumbing trade, never going to ease his mother's mind by passing tests or cleaning up his room. But once he hears jazz by accident from the basement of a speakeasy, he knows exactly what he will do: learn that music... Read more

The Teddy Bear Habit

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: August Ross

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old George Stable wants to be a rock star someday, but he gets horrible stage fright—unless he has his old teddy bear with him. Hiding the teddy in his guitar seems like a brilliant idea. Then George discovers that someone has hidden stolen jewels in the stuffing of his beloved bear. George's embarrassing "teddy bear habit" becomes... Read more

Rich and Famous

By: James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: August Ross

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

At thirteen, George Stable still hasn't made his mark on the world. Oh, he plays the guitar and sings a little. And he appeared on television for six whole seconds once. A couple of years ago, he even wrote a sort of book, called The Teddy Bear Habit. But nothing really exciting has happened to him. But now, it looks as if his big chance has... Read more

The Ballad of Bob Dylan

By: Daniel Mark Epstein

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ballad of Bob Dylan is a vivid, full-bodied portrait of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century—a man widely regarded as the most important lyricist America has ever produced. Acclaimed poet and biographer Daniel Mark Epstein frames Dylan against the backdrop of four seminal concerts—all of which he attended: Lisner... Read more

The Wheels on the Bus Around the World

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A fun collection of favorite songs and rhymes from around the world for everyone to enjoy and join in with!The Wheels on the BusLondon Bridge is Falling DownEenie Meenie MackerackaPop Goes the WeaselShe’ll Be Coming ’Round the MountainFive Currant BunsTen Fat SausagesCockles and MusselsFrere JacquesTom, Tom, the Piper’s SonRing a Ring... Read more

Write Songs Right Now

By: Alex Forbes

Narrated by: Alex Forbes

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Write Songs Right Now is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to creating original pop songs—an approach that has been road-tested by thousands of Alex's students and coaching clients in New York City, some of whom have gone on to achieve great success. With insight, enthusiasm, and humor, Alex guides listeners through the process of brainstorming for... Read more

The Magnificent Elmer

By: Pearl Bernstein Gardner

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by his wife of twenty years, The Magnificent Elmer is the first book about Elmer Bernstein, a seminal figure of movie music.Born in New York City in 1922, Elmer Bernstein was one of America's most celebrated composers, best known for the award-winning musical scores he developed for film, theater, and television for fifty years. He wrote... Read more

The Whitney I Knew

By: BeBe Winans & Tim Willard

Narrated by: BeBe Winans

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the Whitney only family would know... Somewhere outside the glare of the concert spotlights... behind the tawdry entertainment news headlines... beyond the crush of the scandal-seeking paparazzi... lies the truth about Whitney Houston. And few individuals are better qualified to show us that complicated, funny, generous, troubled,... Read more

The Mystery of the Stolen Music

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Narrated by: Aimee Lilly

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An orchestra is coming to town! The children are excited to hear the orchestra play, to meet the musicians, and to learn how to make their own instruments. The orchestra is also displaying a very valuable, old piece of music. But when it mysteriously disappears, it’s up to the Boxcar Children to find it! Read more

The Mystery on Stage

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Boxcar Children have a chance to be in a real play — The Wizard of Oz! Jessie is chosen for the Cowardly Lion. Benny will play a munchkin. Even Watch has a part and all the Aldens are helping with the show. Then mysterious things begin to happen. Someone makes a threatening phone call and a costume is destroyed. Maybe the show won’t go on —... Read more

Belieber!

By: Cathleen Falsani

Narrated by: Cathleen Falsani

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you a Belieber? Justin Bieber’s meteoric rise from a regular kid in small-town Canada to “the most famous teenager on the planet” has captivated the imagination of a generation of young devotees known as “Beliebers.” With record-setting album sales, more than 11 million followers on Twitter and the highest-grossing concert film of all time,... Read more

The Road to You

By: Alecia Whitaker

Narrated by: Alecia Whitaker

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bright lights...screaming fans...cute roadies...country music sensation Bird Barrett has officially arrived.
Next up on the road to stardom, Bird's heading out on tour. Between opening for one of the biggest acts in country music and meeting a passionate young photographer who's working as part of the backstage crew, the weeks pass by in an... Read more

It's a Long Story

By: Willie Nelson

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Willie Nelson shares his life story in this "heartfelt" bestselling memoir of true love, wild times, best friends, and barrooms (Washington Post).
"Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same... Read more

Big Man

By: Clarence Clemons & Don Reo

Narrated by: Jake Clemons

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, discover the inside story of Clarence "Big Man" Clemons -- his life before, during, and beyond the E-Street Band, including never-before-told adventures with Bruce Springsteen, the band, and an incredible cast of other famous characters.

Here's a glimpse of what's inside:
The truth behind the final hours of... Read more

Becoming Beyoncé

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 19 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive biography ever published about America's favorite living pop icon, Beyonce, from New York Times bestselling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli.

Beyonce Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and talent contests, honing her craft through her teenage years until, at the age of... Read more