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  • Raise Your Hand: Adventures of an American Springsteen Fan In Europe

    by Caryn Rose ...
    18 days, five countries, and seven concerts: this was how long-time Springsteen chronicler and veteran Backstreets contributor Caryn Rose spent her summer vacation, running from Paris to Prague to Vienna to London to Dublin, following Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on tour. Were European Springsteen fans that different from their Stateside counterparts? Were the shows overseas truly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Why Patti Smith Matters

    by Caryn Rose ...
    Series series Music Matters
    Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door that countless others walked through. No other musician has better embodied the “nothing-to-hide” ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • B-sides and Broken Hearts

    by Caryn Rose ...
    Lisa Simon, age 37, still loves loud punk rock and hates Dave Matthews with an all-consuming passion. April 15, 2001 should have been just another Sunday night. But a news headline landing in Lisa’s email inbox changes everything: “Joey Ramone is dead.” The death of one of her teenage heroes serves as an long-overdue wake-up call causing Lisa to examine her life and how she’s lived it, from her ... Read more

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    Why Patti Smith Matters

    by Caryn Rose ...
    Narrated by Lori Prince ...
    Series series Music Matters

    Unabridged

    5 hours 43 min

    Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door that countless others walked through. No other musician has better embodied the “nothing-to-hide” ... Read more

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  • A Brief History Of Pink Floyd

    by Andrew Means ...
    With two of the most successful albums in rock history, the members of Pink Floyd are among a select few rock musicians to have left an indelible mark on the cultural life of their times.Their flamboyant emergence in the mid 1960s put them at the fulcrum of British youth's social and artistic experimentation. In early days, songs like "See Emily Play", written by their initial singer Syd Barrett, ... Read more

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  • Love, Janis

    by Laura Joplin ...
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    "NPR's music guru asks dozens of artists about songs that inspired them. The answers are surprising and illuminating." — Billboard MagazineFrom the beloved host and creator of NPR's All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians.Is there an unforgettable song that changed your life?NPR's renowned ... Read more

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