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1) White tears
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two ambitious young musicians are drawn into the dark underworld of blues-record collecting while navigating the fallout of a scam involving one's claim that a viral video of an unknown singer is a long-lost recording of a famous blues musician.
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sex holds the power, while intellect soothes the mind, and Tori uses this fact to her advantage. She is a vicious woman who used her virginity as a weapon when she realized that what she has between her legs is worth more than gold. Nabbing the perfect man after just one night alone with him, she is now set for life. When she decides that one man is just not enough, Tori indulges in more to seek out what she is missing sexually. Will Tori's life...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A woman with tragic beginnings finds love and her voice on her way to stardom ... will the spotlight dim her hard-earned shine? From the day Layani Cherise Bell was born, the world was betting against her. Born four months premature, the doctors didn't expect her to make it, but she did. At the age of six, Layani was diagnosed with leukemia. Again, the doctors gave her a death sentence, but she survived. As if that weren't enough, at the ripe age...
5) Danny says
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The life and times of the influential, brilliantly funny rock icon Danny Fields. Since 1966, Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture of the late twentieth century. This follows Fields from Harvard Law dropout, to the Warhol Silver Factory, to Director of Publicity at Elektra Records, to punk pioneer and beyond.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Earth, Wind & Fire was one of the most popular and significant bands of the past century, celebrated alongside Chicago, the Commodores, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and Sly and the Family Stone. They transcended genres and fused diverse influences, from R & B to pop to jazz and beyond, earning multiple Grammy Awards--and most recently a Lifetime Achievement Award, shortly after the passing of the band's founder, Maurice White. Although many of White's...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Ibérica, una división de HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Hacía mucho calor a pesar de la nieve...
Briana Harper, fotógrafa de bodas, no esperaba encontrarse con su exnovio en una sesión de fotos. Y cuando una tormenta de nieve los dejó aislados en una remota cabaña en la montaña, supo que estaba metida en un buen lío. No había olvidado a Ian Lawson, pero ninguna de las razones por las que habían roto había cambiado. Ian seguía siendo adicto al trabajo y, además, estaba a punto de casarse.
Ian...
8) The keys
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The hip-hop impresario and social-media guru presents a collection of motivational success strategies based on his "keys" video posts and drawing from his personal experiences, sharing the philosophies behind some of his most enigmatic catchphrases.
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The unbelievably true story of music industry's most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records. Along with a rag tag team of young music lovers, Neil and Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever, igniting the careers of legendary icons like Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight and KISS, whose mix of creative insanity shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation....
10) Arm candy
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"King is an underground record producer in Detroit who's finally getting shine and being recognized for his talent. Everything would be perfect if he didn't have an addiction to arm candy. King loves beautiful women. He flaunts them at parties, kicks it with them during studio sessions, and has his way with them -- all while his woman is busy working to help support his dream. Samira is King's girlfriend, the person who has been his monetary backbone....
12) As dust dances
Author
Series
Play on novel volume 2
Publisher
[Samantha Young]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time Skylar Finch was the lead singer of a hugely successful American pop-rock band. But fame made her miserable. When years of living a lie suddenly ended in tragedy, Skylar fell off the map. Eighteen months later she's sleeping in a tent in a cemetery in Glasgow, making just enough money to eat by busking on the streets. She manages to avoid recognition, but not the attention of one of Glasgow's ambitious A&R executives. Killian O'Dea...
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Waiting...: Dean and Monty are two longtime friends who work as waiters as Shenanigan's, a "fun" chain restaurant. Both have been working at the restaurant for about four years and it has only recently occurred to Dean that he has nothing to show for his life but a community college diploma and his name tag from work. He has developed a sudden urgency to make something of himself. Monty, on the other hand, is more interested in making time with the...
14) The defiant ones
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed director Allen Hughes, The Defiant Ones chronicles the unlikely partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. This revealing, compelling and often gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes and massive mansions, in criminal courts and in the highest corridors of corporate power. Featuring interviews with those who worked closely with Jimmy and Dr. Dre, including Bono, David Geffen, and more. The docu-series showcases...
Publisher
Motocinema
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called The Who a rebellious restlessness that was just what...
16) Be cool
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer is tired of the producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking out a talented singer that his friend had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with her sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian...
17) Begin again
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
British songwriter Gretta is adrift in Manhattan after getting dumped by her philandering rock star boyfriend. While playing at an open mic night at a local bar, she is discovered by struggling music producer Dan. Sensing her songwriting potential, Dan pushes Gretta to sign with him and record an ambitious outdoors album all across the city.
18) Cadillac Records
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer, Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James. Chess makes all of his artist part of his family and takes...
Publisher
Rhino Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Follows the career of Atlantic Records co-founder, Ahmet Ertegun, and examine Atlantic Records impact on the evolution of popular music while offering an insider's look at the recording industry from its infancy to today. Features rare clips, performances, and studios sessions of Atlantic recording artists.
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Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
LAST MAN STANDING takes at look at Death Row Records and how L.A.'s street gang culture had come to dominate its business workings, as well as an association with corrupt L.A. Police Officers who were also gang affiliated. It would be this world of gang rivalry and dirty cops that would later claim the lives of the world's two greatest rappers: Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
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