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Weird Era
- How Pitchfork Changed Music Forever: A Memoir
- By: Ryan Schreiber
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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An Almost Famous–like memoir for the twenty-first century: Pitchfork’s founder opens up about running the most influential, and infamous, music publication of the internet age. In 1996, as legacy media slowly went digital, a nineteen-year-old Minneapolitan named Ryan Schreiber fired up his...
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Weird Era
- How Pitchfork Changed Music Forever: A Memoir
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2026
- Language: English
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The Tenderness of Silent Minds
- Benjamin Britten and His War Requiem
- By: Martha C. Nussbaum
- Narrated by: Tawnya Rollingson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In The Tenderness of Silent Minds, Martha C. Nussbaum, a leading thinker on emotion, morality, and justice, conducts a pioneering study of Benjamin Britten's musical representations of the tender male body amidst the brutality of war, and their ability to transform consciousness by evoking potent, non-personal emotions.
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The Tenderness of Silent Minds
- Benjamin Britten and His War Requiem
- Narrated by: Tawnya Rollingson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2025
- Language: English
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Death Metal
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: T Coles
- Narrated by: Rob Crossan
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Guitars playing abrasive, discordant riffs, the thunderous double-kick of the drums acting like an accelerated heartbeat, and porcine, guttural vocals pummeling twisted lyrics. Courting controversy from inception to its modern day iteration, death metal presents a number of contradictions: Driven and adventurous musicians compete to make uncomfortable noises; it is crude and far beyond parody and yet consistently popular; and the music is pig-headedly uncommercial despite making a few labels, albeit briefly, wealthy.
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Death Metal
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Rob Crossan
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2025
- Language: English
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Madonna's Erotica
- 33 1/3
- By: Michael Dango
- Narrated by: Grayson Villanueva
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone wanted Madonna’s 1992 album Erotica to be a scandal. In the midst of a culture war, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family values. The target of conservative loathing, gay men reeling from the AIDS epidemic wanted it to be a celebration of a sexual culture that had rapidly slipped away. And Madonna herself wanted to sell scandal, which is why she released Erotica in the same season as her erotic thriller Body of Evidence and her pornographic coffee-table book simply titled Sex.
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Madonna's Erotica
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Grayson Villanueva
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2025
- Language: English
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Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA
- 33 1/3
- By: Geoffrey Himes
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, "one, two, one, two, three, four," followed by the droning synth chords of "Born in the U.S.A." Max Weinberg hit his drums with a two-fisted physicality that cut through the swelling chords. With a rolled-up red kerchief around his head and heavy black boots under his faded jeans, Springsteen looked like the character of the song, and from the very first line ("Born down in a dead man's town") he sang with the throat-scraping desperation of a man with his back against the wall.
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Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2025
- Language: English
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Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited
- 33 1/3, Book 35
- By: Mark Polizzoti
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, Mark Polizzotti examines just what makes the songs on Highway 61 Revisited so affecting, how they work together as a suite, and how lyrics, melody, and arrangements combine to create an unusually potent mix. He blends musical and literary analysis of the songs themselves, biography (where appropriate) and recording information (where helpful).
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Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited
- 33 1/3, Book 35
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2025
- Language: English
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- By: Carl Wilson
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Non-fans regard Céline Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband's struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There's nothing cool about Céline Dion, and nothing clever. That's part of her appeal as an object of love or hatred — with most critics and committed music fans taking pleasure (or at least geeky solace) in their lofty contempt.
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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
- 33 1/3, Book 52
- Narrated by: Trenton Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2025
- Language: English
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Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
- By: George Grella Jr.
- Narrated by: Jamie Lincoln Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Bitches Brew is still one of the most astonishing albums ever made in either jazz or rock. Seeming to fuse the two, it actually does something entirely more revolutionary and open-ended: blending the most avant-garde aspects of Western music with deep grooves, the album rejects both jazz and rock for an entirely different idea of how music can be made.
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Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
- Narrated by: Jamie Lincoln Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2025
- Language: English
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- Phantom Chords: True Tales of Haunted Studios, Ghostly Encounters, and Otherworldly Rockers
- By: Staci Layne Wilson
- Narrated by: Shrader Thomas
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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Welcome to the ultimate backstage pass to the afterlife, where the music never stops and the encores are eternal. In this collection of spectral true tales, we'll journey from smoke-filled recording studios to haunted hotel rooms, chasing the ghosts of rock & roll royalty who refuse to let a little thing like death keep them from the spotlight. These aren't your grandmother's ghost stories—unless, of course, your gran was a groupie for The Doors.
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- Phantom Chords: True Tales of Haunted Studios, Ghostly Encounters, and Otherworldly Rockers
- Narrated by: Shrader Thomas
- Series: Rock & Roll Nightmares
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2024
- Language: English
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Songs In The Key of MP3
- The New Icons of the Internet Age
- By: Liam Inscoe-Jones
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence, Liam Inscoe-Jones, Rori Hawthorn, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay. Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of a button. New forms of musical discovery open up before your very eyes. This evolving digital landscape exists beyond...
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Songs In The Key of MP3
- The New Icons of the Internet Age
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence, Liam Inscoe-Jones, Rori Hawthorn, Sam Crerar
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2025
- Language: English
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Springsteen Fandom
- A Lifetime Conversation
- By: Dr Nicolas Pethes
- Length: 4 hrs
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Choosing significant stops of the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023 Tour as a narrative guideline, the book presents a thorough analysis of Springsteen’s album conceptions, song lyrics, show rituals, and interviews. Based on a discussion of the ever-growing Springsteen scholarship, Pethes introduces artist-fan-communication as a notion that is not based on mere illusions but rather on actual emotions and practices.
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Springsteen Fandom
- A Lifetime Conversation
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 14-05-2026
- Language: English
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Raps of Resistance
- How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition
- By: Jeremy C. McCool, Earl Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs
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Conscious rap, a subgenre of hip-hop music that engages in dialogue about social and political issues and often challenges systems of oppression, ascended with pioneers like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest, and other acts at the helm. But in recent decades, it lost much of its favor in pop culture and mainstream hip-hop. Jeremy C. McCool and Earl Hopkins explore the evolution of the subgenre and chronicle the rise of Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole.
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Raps of Resistance
- How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 14-05-2026
- Language: English
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الموسيقى سلسلة مقدمات موجزة
- By: نيكولاس كوك
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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يطرح هذا الكتاب أسئلةً أساسيةً حول طبيعة الموسيقى بوصفها ممارسةً بشريةً، فالعالم يمتلئ بأنواع مختلفة من الموسيقى: الشعبية، والكلاسيكية، والجاز، والروك، والبوب، والكثير غيرها. بيد أن الكتاب يركز على أبعادها الاجتماعية والثقافية، مستكشفاً تطورها عبر الحقب، وموضحاً تأثير التكنولوجيا فيها، ودورها في سياقات العمل الاجتماعي والسياسي. ويناقش الكتاب أيضاً وضع الموسيقى في زمن العولمة؛ من دورها في إنهاء الاستعمار إلى أهميتها بوصفها وسيلةً للتواصل بين الثقافات.
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الموسيقى سلسلة مقدمات موجزة
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2025
- Language: Arabic
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موسيقى البلوز
- By: إيلايجا والد
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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في هذا الكتاب، يستعرِض إيلايجا والد نوعاً موسيقياً هو في صميم الثقافة الأمريكية. ويتتبَّع جذورَ هذه الموسيقى في الحقول ومعسكرات العمل والأناشيد الدينية، ويُظهِر التحوُّلاتِ التي شهدتها على يدِ فنانين محترفين مثل وليام سي هاندي، الذي جعل موسيقى البلوز فناً شعبياً قبل قرنٍ مضى. ثم يتابع والد تطورَ هذه الموسيقى من ما رايني وبيسي سميث إلى بوب ديلان وجيمي هندريكس، ويوضِّح تأثير التسجيلات الريفية، ويستكشف دورَ البلـوز في تطوُّر موسيقى الكانتري وموسيقى الجاز، ويلقي نظرةً على اتجاهاتِ الإيقاع والبلوز التي راجت في أربعينيات القرن العشرين وخمسينياته. وأخيراً، ينتقل والد إلى الحاضر، ويتطرَّق إلى تأثيراتِ البلوز على الشِّعر الأمريكي وعلاقة هذا النوع الموسيقي بالأساليبِ الحديثة مثل الراب.
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موسيقى البلوز
- Narrated by: Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2025
- Language: Arabic
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The Real Rock Follies
- The Great Girl Band Rip-off of 1976
- By: Annabel Leventon
- Narrated by: Annabel Leventon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The Real Rock Follies is a real-life story of youthful trust betrayed, dreams of stardom dashed and cruel lessons learnt. The three girls, then in their late twenties, learned too late that in the harsh showbiz world you can hardly trust anyone, not even your friends. However, despite everything, they got the last laugh.
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The Real Rock Follies
- The Great Girl Band Rip-off of 1976
- Narrated by: Annabel Leventon
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-12-2025
- Language: English
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Il bambino di Salisburgo
- Mozart, l'interminabile infanzia
- By: Edgarda Ferri
- Narrated by: Valentina Mari
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Un bambino come tanti: silenzioso, non bello, con grandi occhi pieni di domande. Dal momento in cui il mondo si accorge di lui, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart non avrà più pace. Per farlo dovrà però rinunciare alla spensieratezza, alle amicizie, agli amori e persino alla salute, mentre per restare nell'orbita della sua vita eccezionale coloro che lo amano, come la sorella Nannerl e la madre Anna, si sacrificheranno fino ad annullarsi.
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Il bambino di Salisburgo
- Mozart, l'interminabile infanzia
- Narrated by: Valentina Mari
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 16-12-2025
- Language: Italian
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Notes of Deception
- How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB
- By: Merryl Goldberg, Merryl & Vince Goldberg & Houghton
- Length: 12 hrs
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In 1985, four American musicians—members of a New England-based klezmer band that focused on Yiddish music—landed in Moscow. With little training in espionage, they risked their freedom and their lives to smuggle information to and from the West under the watchful eye of the KGB and to help...
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Notes of Deception
- How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 25-08-2026
- Language: English
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The Unlocked Interviews
- By: Richard Blade
- Narrated by: Richard Blade, original artists
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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The Unlocked interviews was recorded over a period of six months with some of music's biggest stars including Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran who is featured in two separate interviews; the bonus one has never been heard before, as Simon takes you through their second album, Rio, and goes over each track in turn, describing the writing, recording and meaning — and even singing parts of them!
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The Unlocked Interviews
- Narrated by: Richard Blade, original artists
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-12-2025
- Language: English
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Won't Back Down
- Heartland Rock and the Fight for America
- By: Erin Osmon
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Erin Osmon’s rollicking Won’t Back Down tells the story of the origins, chart-topping development, and tangled legacy of Heartland Rock, the music that ruled the airwaves of the 1980s and remains instantly recognizable to millions. Osmon delves into the making of its classic albums and songs, including Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run,” Bob Seger’s “Against the Wind,” John Mellencamp’s “Small Town,” and Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.”
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Won't Back Down
- Heartland Rock and the Fight for America
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2026
- Language: English
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Otra historia de la música (El Barroquista)
- ¿Qué pensaría Bach de la música actual?
- By: Miguel Ángel Cajigal Vera
- Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Cajigal Vera
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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La música está en todas partes: en las conversaciones cotidianas, en el ruido de la ciudad, en el bullicio de las calles y en los momentos de descanso. Es el lenguaje que nos conecta sin necesidad de palabras, nos emociona, nos moviliza y nos transforma. Desde los cantos de los esclavos africanos hasta la revolución del K-pop, pasando por la transgresión de Rosalía y la pureza matemática de Bach, la música ha sido el motor de historias, celebraciones y tragedias.
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Otra historia de la música (El Barroquista)
- ¿Qué pensaría Bach de la música actual?
- Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Cajigal Vera
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 20-11-2025
- Language: Spanish
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