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Guitar: Learn To Play Guitar for Beginners

by John G. Phillips ...

Narrated by Matt Montanez ...

Unabridged

52 min

All-in-one Guitar Course With a Proven Step-by-step Learning System.Today only, get this audio bestseller for a special price.Would You Like to Eliminate Every Struggle That You Are Faced With When Starting to Play Guitar?This audiobook is your "Free Pass" to playing guitar. It is the most direct and to the point complete audio program guitar course.Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn.. ... Read more

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All-in-one Guitar Course With a Proven Step-by-step Learning System.Today only, get this audio bestseller for a special price.Would You Like to Eliminate Every Struggle That You Are Faced With When Starting to Play Guitar?This audiobook is your "Free Pass" to playing guitar. It is the most direct and to the point complete audio program guitar course.Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn..
... Read more
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Drumming for Beginners - Your Journey Into Playing Drums

by Tigger Reginalds ...

Narrated by John Hays ...

Unabridged

21 min

Have you always had a secret desire to learn how to play the drums?Was it the expense of getting started or the difficulty that put you off in the past?Have you shaken off that negativity and have decided that now is the time to learn?Learning to play the drums is difficult for many people. The coordination and rhythm that is required doesn’t always come naturally and many start and then abruptly ... Read more

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Have you always had a secret desire to learn how to play the drums?Was it the expense of getting started or the difficulty that put you off in the past?Have you shaken off that negativity and have decided that now is the time to learn?Learning to play the drums is difficult for many people. The coordination and rhythm that is required doesn’t always come naturally and many start and then abruptly
... Read more
Audiobook

Nailing It

by Rich Hall ...

Narrated by Rich Hall ...

Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

'An uproariously funny collection of true stories from one of the comedy greats' - BILL BAILEYA collection of hilarious and often absurd epiphanies in the legendary comedian's life that defined him - more in a for worse than for better kind of way - and all delivered in his unique deadpan style.Growing up, Rich Hall aspired to be a writer, and after school he trained to be a journalist. But after ... Read more

£21.99

'An uproariously funny collection of true stories from one of the comedy greats' - BILL BAILEYA collection of hilarious and often absurd epiphanies in the legendary comedian's life that defined him - more in a for worse than for better kind of way - and all delivered in his unique deadpan style.Growing up, Rich Hall aspired to be a writer, and after school he trained to be a journalist. But after
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Audiobook

Grime Kids

The Inside Story of the Global Grime Takeover

by DJ Target ...

Narrated by DJ Target ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA, AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON BBC THREE NOW'An essential read for anyone with the slightest interest in the birth of Grime' The Wire'Sharp and nostalgic' The ObserverA group of kids in the 90s had a dream to make their voice heard - and this book documents their seminal impact on today's pop culture.DJ Target grew up in Bow under the shadow of Canary Wharf, with money looming... ... Read more

£19.99

NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA, AVAILABLE TO WATCH ON BBC THREE NOW'An essential read for anyone with the slightest interest in the birth of Grime' The Wire'Sharp and nostalgic' The ObserverA group of kids in the 90s had a dream to make their voice heard - and this book documents their seminal impact on today's pop culture.DJ Target grew up in Bow under the shadow of Canary Wharf, with money looming...
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Audiobook

First Time I Ever Heard..., The

by Michael Pollick ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Eric (11Labs) S ...

Unabridged

1 hour 58 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A teenage protagonist stumbles upon songs like Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" in a record store, instantly captivated by their raw, energetic sound. The experience is described as both terrifying and exhilarating, a gateway to a world of music the protagonist never knew existed. Comparable works include The first time a character discovers a genre of music ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A teenage protagonist stumbles upon songs like Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" in a record store, instantly captivated by their raw, energetic sound. The experience is described as both terrifying and exhilarating, a gateway to a world of music the protagonist never knew existed. Comparable works include The first time a character discovers a genre of music
... Read more
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A ira de Nasi

by Alexandre Petillo, Mauro Betting ...

Narrated by Mauro Betting, Nasi ...

Unabridged

8 hours 47 min

Nasi não nasceu para ser santo. Nasceu para ser a voz de um pecado capital. Quando foi fundo ele acabou indo além do permitido e recomenda¬do. E, na volta, trouxe com ele tudo que o dragou - do melhor e do pior. Nas travessias ao céu e nas travessuras abaixo do inferno das drogas químicas e das porcarias das pessoas físicas e jurídicas que experimentou, o ex-vocalista do Ira! se tornou homem com ... Read more

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Nasi não nasceu para ser santo. Nasceu para ser a voz de um pecado capital. Quando foi fundo ele acabou indo além do permitido e recomenda¬do. E, na volta, trouxe com ele tudo que o dragou - do melhor e do pior. Nas travessias ao céu e nas travessuras abaixo do inferno das drogas químicas e das porcarias das pessoas físicas e jurídicas que experimentou, o ex-vocalista do Ira! se tornou homem com
... Read more
Audiobook

Listen to This

by Alex Ross ...

Narrated by Alex Ross ...

Unabridged

14 hours 31 min

In Listen to This, Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, looks both backward and forward in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical-music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice in whatever genre.In Listen to This, Alex Ross will combine a selection of his New Yorker essays with new ... Read more

£18.99

In Listen to This, Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, looks both backward and forward in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical-music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice in whatever genre.In Listen to This, Alex Ross will combine a selection of his New Yorker essays with new
... Read more
Audiobook

The Classical Music Book

by DK ...

Narrated by Peter Forbes ...

Unabridged

15 hours 58 min

From Mozart to Mendelssohn, this comprehensive guide to classical music history and classical music biography is the perfect latest addition to the bestselling Big Ideas series.Easy to understand and clear to follow, this history of classical music explores and explains music theory and the impact of seminal pieces, while also providing fascinating stories about the lives of crucial composers and ... Read more

£16.99

From Mozart to Mendelssohn, this comprehensive guide to classical music history and classical music biography is the perfect latest addition to the bestselling Big Ideas series.Easy to understand and clear to follow, this history of classical music explores and explains music theory and the impact of seminal pieces, while also providing fascinating stories about the lives of crucial composers and
... Read more
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Radiopiraten - Abenteuer auf hoher See (Ungekürzt)

by Herbert Hoven, Hans Jacobshagen ...

Narrated by Herbert Hoven, Hans Jacobshagen ...

Unabridged

1 hour 48 min

Ende der 60er Jahre, als in Deutschland noch Musikmoderatoren durchs Programm führten, saßen bei Radio Caroline, Radio Veronika, Radio London und Radio Mi Amigo oder bei Nordsee International Discjockeys vor dem Mikrofon und spielten pausenlos die neuesten Titel aus England und Amerika. ... Read more

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Ende der 60er Jahre, als in Deutschland noch Musikmoderatoren durchs Programm führten, saßen bei Radio Caroline, Radio Veronika, Radio London und Radio Mi Amigo oder bei Nordsee International Discjockeys vor dem Mikrofon und spielten pausenlos die neuesten Titel aus England und Amerika.
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Audiobook

Why the Beach Boys Matter

by Tom Smucker ...

Narrated by Joe Hempel ...

Series series Music Matters
Unabridged

4 hours 21 min

Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early surf, car, and summer pop and their later hippie, counterculture, and ambitious rock. No other group ... Read more

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Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early surf, car, and summer pop and their later hippie, counterculture, and ambitious rock. No other group
... Read more
Audiobook

Won't Back Down

Heartland Rock and the Fight for America

by Erin Osmon ...

Narrated by Andrea Gallo ...

Unabridged

13 hours 54 min

One of America’s leading music journalists on heartland rock’s glory days and its role in the populist politics of the 1980s.Hear “American Girl” or “Born in the U.S.A.” and, like it or not, chances are you begin to hum along. The soundtrack of grocery stores, pool halls, bowling alleys, flea markets, chain restaurants, drug stores, and political rallies—heartland rock, while beloved by some and ... Read more

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One of America’s leading music journalists on heartland rock’s glory days and its role in the populist politics of the 1980s.Hear “American Girl” or “Born in the U.S.A.” and, like it or not, chances are you begin to hum along. The soundtrack of grocery stores, pool halls, bowling alleys, flea markets, chain restaurants, drug stores, and political rallies—heartland rock, while beloved by some and
... Read more
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Sie Düffeldoffel da! Herbert Wehner - Ein komischer Heiliger

by Jürgen Roth ...

Narrated by Gert Heidenreich ...

Unabridged

2 hours 39 min

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 atemberaubende Reden und machte den politischen Gegner nach ... Read more

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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 atemberaubende Reden und machte den politischen Gegner nach
... Read more
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Das Beste aus meinem Liebesleben

Geschichten und Songs über die Liebe an guten und schlechten Tagen

by Axel Hacke, Ursula Mauder ...

Narrated by Axel Hacke ...

Unabridged

1 hour 18 min

Es wäre natürlich einfacher zu lieben, wenn die Liebe tagaus, tagein immer so groß bliebe, wie sie eigentlich ist. Wenn nicht die Banalitäten des Lebens an ihr nagen würden wie die Biber an den Bäumen … "Das Beste aus meinem Liebesleben" versammelt Axel Hackes Geschichten aus den Beziehungssümpfen des Alltags, Geschichten, die einem geradezu unheimlich bekannt sind und die man immer wieder mit dem ... Read more

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Es wäre natürlich einfacher zu lieben, wenn die Liebe tagaus, tagein immer so groß bliebe, wie sie eigentlich ist. Wenn nicht die Banalitäten des Lebens an ihr nagen würden wie die Biber an den Bäumen … "Das Beste aus meinem Liebesleben" versammelt Axel Hackes Geschichten aus den Beziehungssümpfen des Alltags, Geschichten, die einem geradezu unheimlich bekannt sind und die man immer wieder mit dem
... Read more
Audiobook

Soundtrack of Leadership, The

What Music Teaches Us About Leadership and Culture

by Karlton Butts ...

Narrated by Karlton Butts ...

Unabridged

6 hours 16 min

The Soundtrack of Leadership: What Music Teaches Us About Leadership and Culture explores our deep connection with music and how music shapes our leadership values and our relationships. It parallels the evolution of a band-from preparing yourself as a leader, to choosing your bandmates, to writing music, to playing stadiums, and to managing stardom-with the leadership and cultural evolution of an ... Read more

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The Soundtrack of Leadership: What Music Teaches Us About Leadership and Culture explores our deep connection with music and how music shapes our leadership values and our relationships. It parallels the evolution of a band-from preparing yourself as a leader, to choosing your bandmates, to writing music, to playing stadiums, and to managing stardom-with the leadership and cultural evolution of an
... Read more
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Bitch She's Madonna. La reina del pop en la cultura contemporánea: La reina del pop en la cultura contemporánea

by Lara González, Lara González, Iván Rotella, Iván Rotella, Borja Ibaseta, Borja Ibaseta, Eduardo Viñuela, Igor Paskual, Mar Álvarez, Laura Viñuela, Jimena Escudero0, Cande Sánchez-Olmos1, Ana Fernández Alonso2 ...

Narrated by Carlos Fierro3 ...

Unabridged

7 hours 52 min

Ser un referente para varias generaciones y mantenerse en la cumbre del mundo de la música desde hace cuarenta años no es una tarea fácil. Y más si eres mujer y si nunca has tenido reparos en tomar las riendas de tu vida y de tu carrera (lidiando con las críticas, el machismo, la censura… y el paso del tiempo). Controvertida y admirada, polémica e incombustible, Madonna es una figura clave de la ... Read more

£8.99

Ser un referente para varias generaciones y mantenerse en la cumbre del mundo de la música desde hace cuarenta años no es una tarea fácil. Y más si eres mujer y si nunca has tenido reparos en tomar las riendas de tu vida y de tu carrera (lidiando con las críticas, el machismo, la censura… y el paso del tiempo). Controvertida y admirada, polémica e incombustible, Madonna es una figura clave de la
... Read more
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My Take on Me (A-Ha)

by Morten Harket ...

Narrated by Gabriel Duarte ...

Unabridged

7 hours 4 min

No Reino da Noruega, Morten Harket é considerado o maior artista da história do país escandinavo. E o A-ha, claro, a maior banda. Também, pudera: em 30 anos de carreira, o trio de pop-rock vendeu mais de 80 milhões de discos no mundo todo, boa parte em lojas brasileiras. Quando o cantor pisou pela primeira vez no Brasil, em 1989, a banda já havia emplacado hits como Take on Me, Hunting High and ... Read more

£3.99

No Reino da Noruega, Morten Harket é considerado o maior artista da história do país escandinavo. E o A-ha, claro, a maior banda. Também, pudera: em 30 anos de carreira, o trio de pop-rock vendeu mais de 80 milhões de discos no mundo todo, boa parte em lojas brasileiras. Quando o cantor pisou pela primeira vez no Brasil, em 1989, a banda já havia emplacado hits como Take on Me, Hunting High and
... Read more
Audiobook

Huey Morgan's Rebel Heroes

The Renegades of Music & Why We Still Need Them

by Huey Morgan ...

Narrated by Huey Morgan ...

Unabridged

5 hours 15 min

The defining sounds of popular music - blues, rock 'n' roll, punk, hip-hop - were shaped and driven by rebel voices: whether that was Robert Johnson and Billie Holiday in the 1920-40s, or the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Joe Strummer in the 1960s and 70s. Truly ground- and rule-breaking voices have been drowned out by pop-by-numbers acts in more recent years, and in Rebel Heroes, Huey ... Read more

£19.99

The defining sounds of popular music - blues, rock 'n' roll, punk, hip-hop - were shaped and driven by rebel voices: whether that was Robert Johnson and Billie Holiday in the 1920-40s, or the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Joe Strummer in the 1960s and 70s. Truly ground- and rule-breaking voices have been drowned out by pop-by-numbers acts in more recent years, and in Rebel Heroes, Huey
... Read more
Audiobook

First Gig Ever, The

by Sophia John ...

Narrated by Barkha Swaroop Saxena ...

Series Audiobook 7 - Friday Shots
Unabridged

11 min

A band of musicians dream of making it big in the world. When they do not get sponsors, they choose a most unusual location for their first gig. Their decision has unintended, world shattering consequences. ... Read more

£2.99

A band of musicians dream of making it big in the world. When they do not get sponsors, they choose a most unusual location for their first gig. Their decision has unintended, world shattering consequences.
... Read more
Audiobook

Protishodher Chora

by Debarati Mukhopadhyay ...

Narrated by Sanjay Dutta ...

Unabridged

48 min

পঞ্চাশ বছর আগে বাঙালি যুবতী শেফালী চৌধুরী দিল্লীর ভরা রাস্তায় বুকে ছোরা বসিয়ে দিয়েছিল রেডিওর উঠতি গায়িকা সুরিন্দরের বুকে। তৎক্ষণাৎ মৃত্যুর কোলে ঢলে পড়েছিল সদ্যবিবাহিত সুরিন্দর। তার স্বামী বিজয়ের স্তম্ভিত মুখের সামনে দিয়ে পালিয়ে ছিল স্কুলশিক্ষিকা খেলাধুলোয় পটু শেফালী। শিক্ষিত বাঙ্গালিনী শেফালী চৌধুরী ধরা পড়ার পর কোর্টে তাকে দেখার জন্য উপচে পড়া ভিড় সামলাতে দিতে হত অতিরিক্ত পুলিশ। কিসের প্রতিশোধ নিয় ... Read more

£2.99

পঞ্চাশ বছর আগে বাঙালি যুবতী শেফালী চৌধুরী দিল্লীর ভরা রাস্তায় বুকে ছোরা বসিয়ে দিয়েছিল রেডিওর উঠতি গায়িকা সুরিন্দরের বুকে। তৎক্ষণাৎ মৃত্যুর কোলে ঢলে পড়েছিল সদ্যবিবাহিত সুরিন্দর। তার স্বামী বিজয়ের স্তম্ভিত মুখের সামনে দিয়ে পালিয়ে ছিল স্কুলশিক্ষিকা খেলাধুলোয় পটু শেফালী। শিক্ষিত বাঙ্গালিনী শেফালী চৌধুরী ধরা পড়ার পর কোর্টে তাকে দেখার জন্য উপচে পড়া ভিড় সামলাতে দিতে হত অতিরিক্ত পুলিশ। কিসের প্রতিশোধ নিয়
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Histoires Analogues

by Michel-Olivier Gasse ...

Narrated by Michel-Olivier Gasse, Louis-José Houde, Karyne Lefebvre ...

Unabridged

3 hours 17 min

C’est les histoires d’un gars qui écoute beaucoup de musique et qui achète des disques depuis toujours. Des histoires qui font état de la place qu’un album, une chanson ou une pochette peut occuper dans une vie. Des histoires de musique adorée ou de musique subie. Ce n’est pas un palmarès ni un ramassis de suggestions ; ce sont quarante textes qui prennent chacun leur point de départ dans un album ... Read more

£12.99

C’est les histoires d’un gars qui écoute beaucoup de musique et qui achète des disques depuis toujours. Des histoires qui font état de la place qu’un album, une chanson ou une pochette peut occuper dans une vie. Des histoires de musique adorée ou de musique subie. Ce n’est pas un palmarès ni un ramassis de suggestions ; ce sont quarante textes qui prennent chacun leur point de départ dans un album
... Read more
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Exit Stage Left

The curious afterlife of pop stars

by Nick Duerden ...

Narrated by Matt Bates ...

Unabridged

11 hours 38 min

'Exit Stage Left is the book I've long wanted to read about the PTSD-like after-effects of pop stardom - and Nick Duerden is the perfect writer for the job. The pop star's bittersweet lot - the mass adoration that comes with pop stardom, followed by the bathetic comedown of what inevitably follows - is represented with flair and empathy.' - Pete Paphides, author of Broken Greek'Fame is the ... Read more

£22.99

'Exit Stage Left is the book I've long wanted to read about the PTSD-like after-effects of pop stardom - and Nick Duerden is the perfect writer for the job. The pop star's bittersweet lot - the mass adoration that comes with pop stardom, followed by the bathetic comedown of what inevitably follows - is represented with flair and empathy.' - Pete Paphides, author of Broken Greek'Fame is the
... Read more
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Being Wagner

The Triumph of the Will

by Simon Callow ...

Narrated by Simon Callow ...

Unabridged

6 hours 37 min

The perfect introduction to the Master.Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner’s music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty, ... Read more

£15.99

The perfect introduction to the Master.Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner’s music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, visionary and poisonously anti-Semitic. His ten great mature masterpieces constitute an unmatched body of work, created against a backdrop of poverty,
... Read more
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HowExpert Guide to Music Festivals

101 Tips to Survive, Thrive, and Have the Most Epic Music Festival Experience

by HowExpert, Lydia Endel ...

Narrated by Danielle Lorentz ...

Unabridged

3 hours

If you want to learn how to survive, thrive, and have an epic music festival experience, then get HowExpert Guide to Music Festivals. This guide is written by Lydia Endel, who has real-life knowledge, passion, and experience in exploring many different music festivals.This book will educate people who are new to the music festival scene on how to survive and thrive at their next festival. The ... Read more

£14.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

If you want to learn how to survive, thrive, and have an epic music festival experience, then get HowExpert Guide to Music Festivals. This guide is written by Lydia Endel, who has real-life knowledge, passion, and experience in exploring many different music festivals.This book will educate people who are new to the music festival scene on how to survive and thrive at their next festival. The
... Read more
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Kick Out the Jams

Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing

by Dave Marsh ...

Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

Unabridged

10 hours 4 min

Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation.Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day ... Read more

£19.99

Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation.Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day
... Read more

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