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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why Rock Stars Never Retire
- By: David Hepworth
- Narrated by: Paul Fox
- Length: 10 hrs
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When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July of 1985, we thought he was rock's Grand Old Man. He was forty-three years old. As the forty years since have shown, he—and many others of his generation—were just getting started. This was the time when live performance took over from records. The big names of the '60s and '70s exploited the Age of Spectacle that Live Aid had ushered in to enjoy the longest lap of honor in the history of humanity, continuing to go strong long after everyone else in the business had retired.
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why Rock Stars Never Retire
- Narrated by: Paul Fox
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 07-15-25
- Language: English
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Songs of Nashville
- The Real Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits
- By: Jake Brown
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 10 hrs
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Songs of Nashville is a look inside the lives and work of the artists who’ve shaped Nashville and the sound of country. It reveals the emotional fuel, melodic and lyrical science, and pure magic of the Music Row hitmaking machine.
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Songs of Nashville
- The Real Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 06-24-25
- Language: English
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The Last Great Dream
- How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
- By: Dennis McNally
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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Fascinating, far-reaching, and definitive, THE LAST GREAT DREAM is the ultimate guide to a generation-defining countercultural movement, an Underground 101 course for newcomers and aficionados alike.
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The Last Great Dream
- How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Talking Heads' Fear of Music
- 33 1/3, Book 86
- By: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrated by: Keith Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece—edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and legacy, showing how Fear of Music hints at the directions (positive and negative) the band would take in the future.
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Talking Heads' Fear of Music
- 33 1/3, Book 86
- Narrated by: Keith Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Such Great Heights
- The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
- By: Chris DeVille
- Narrated by: Chris DeVille
- Length: 8 mins
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However you found your way into indie rock, once you were a listener, it felt like being part of a secret club of people who had discovered something special, something secret, something superior. In Such Great Heights, music journalist Chris DeVille brilliantly captures this cultural moment, from the early aughts and the height of indie rock, until the 2010s as streaming upends the industry and changes music forever.
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Such Great Heights
- The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
- Narrated by: Chris DeVille
- Length: 8 mins
- Release date: 08-26-25
- Language: English
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Madvillain's Madvillainy
- 33 1/3
- By: Will Hagle
- Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to hip-hop.
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Madvillain's Madvillainy
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Taylor's Version
- The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift
- By: Stephanie Burt
- Length: 9 hrs
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Taylor Swift has become a peerless superstar, ceaselessly productive and internationally beloved. From her teen country debut to her Eras tour and beyond, Swift’s career and her creations have captivated and bewitched us, opening up new ways to see both her life and our own. In Taylor’s Version, the poet and literary scholar Stephanie Burt offers an insightful and heartfelt critical appreciation of Taylor Swift, her body of work, and the community that her art has fostered.
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Taylor's Version
- The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 10-14-25
- Language: English
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The Beatles' Let It Be
- 33 1/3, Book 12
- By: Steve Matteo
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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The recording sessions for Let It Be actually began as rehearsals for a proposed return to live stage work for the Beatles, to be inaugurated in a concert at a Roman amphitheater in Tunisia. In this thoroughly researched book, Steve Matteo delves deep into the complex history of these sessions.
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The Beatles' Let It Be
- 33 1/3, Book 12
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode's 101
- 33 1/3
- By: Mary Valle
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Eight years after its founding in Basildon, Essex, Depeche Mode, rooted in 1970s Krautrock, combined old-fashioned touring, well-crafted songs, and the steadfast support of KROQ to dominate Southern California, the United States, and then the world, kicking open the doors for the likes of Nirvana in the process. 101 is the hidden-in-plain-sight hinge of modern music history.
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Depeche Mode's 101
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Elton John's Blue Moves
- 33 1/3
- By: Matthew Restall
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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By 1976, Elton John was the best-selling recording artist and the highest-grossing touring act in the world. With seven #1 albums in a row and a reputation as a riveting piano-pounding performer, the former Reggie Dwight had gone with dazzling speed from the London suburbs to the pinnacles of rock stardom, his songs never leaving the charts, his sold-out shows packed with adoring fans. Then he released Blue Moves, and it all came crashing down.
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Elton John's Blue Moves
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Fleetwood Mac's Tusk
- 33 1/3, Book 77
- By: Rob Trucks
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.
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Fleetwood Mac's Tusk
- 33 1/3, Book 77
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Nas's Illmatic
- 33 1/3, Book 64
- By: Matthew Gasteier
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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A decade and a half ago, Illmatic launched one of the most storied careers in hip hop, and cemented New York’s place as the genre’s epicenter. With this in-depth look at the record, Matthew Gasteier explores the competing themes that run through Nas’s masterpiece and finds a compelling journey into adulthood.
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Nas's Illmatic
- 33 1/3, Book 64
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
- 33 1/3, Book 30
- By: Dan LeRoy
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning to record their second album—an embarrassing commercial flop that should have ruined the group's career. But not only did "Paul's Boutique" eventually transformed the Beasties from a fratboy novelty to hiphop giants, its sample-happy, retro aesthetic changed popular culture forever.
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The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
- 33 1/3, Book 30
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
- 33 1/3
- By: Sequoia Maner
- Narrated by: Angel Pean
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly was widely hailed as an instant classic, garnering laudatory album reviews, many awards, and even a canonized place in Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois archive. Why did this strangely compelling record stimulate the emotions and imaginations of listeners?
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Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Angel Pean
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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George Michael's Faith
- 33 1/3
- By: Matthew Horton
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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On Saturday, June 28, 1986, George Michael picked up his tasseled leather jacket, walked out of London’s Wembley Stadium and cheerfully tore up five years of glittering pop history. He’d just disposed of Wham!, the band he’d formed with school friend Andrew Ridgeley when they were teenagers, and now, at 23, he knew he was all grown up. He just needed to convince everyone else.
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George Michael's Faith
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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David Bowie's Low
- 33 1/3, Book 26
- By: Hugo Wilcken
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece.
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David Bowie's Low
- 33 1/3, Book 26
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Nirvana's In Utero
- 33 1/3, Book 34
- By: Gillian G Gaar
- Narrated by: Erin Altheide
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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Though Nevermind was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them—and the grunge phenomenon—internationally, In Utero has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. Instead of sticking to the "grunge pop" formula that made Nevermind so palatable to the mainstream, Nirvana chose instead to challenge their audience, producing an album that the band's creative force, Kurt Cobain, said truly matched his vision of what he had always wanted his band to sound like.
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Nirvana's In Utero
- 33 1/3, Book 34
- Narrated by: Erin Altheide
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
- 33 1/3
- By: Jim Fusilli
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Pet Sounds is, rightly, one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released. It has also been written about, pored over, and analyzed more than most other albums put together. In this disarming book, Jim Fusilli focuses primarily on the emotional core of the album, on Brian Wilson’s pitch-perfect cry of despair. In doing so, he brings to life the search for equilibrium and acceptance that still gives Pet Sounds its heart almost four decades after its release.
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The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
- 33 1/3
- By: Aaron Cohen
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of all time. For two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potential to be historic: five years after ascending to soul royalty and commercial success, Franklin was publicly returning to her religious roots.
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Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-13-25
- Language: English
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- By: Nora Princiotti
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 8 hrs
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Low-rise jeans, butterfly clips, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, and Paris Hilton’s nights out. The early 2000s were a time of major moments in fashion, media, celebrity culture, and especially music. The aughts were a particularly fruitful era for female artists—still the only decade in the history of recorded music when women made up more than half the list of highest-grossing performers—and especially pop stars. Artists such as Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Beyoncé were leading the charge—their success not only leading to a new respect for female artists, but for pop stardom itself.
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 06-17-25
- Language: English
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