Audiobooks narrated by Colin Meloy

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

This is the story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties--when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rock's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith has been recognized as an indie rock classic in its own right. Among the bands profiled: Mission of Burma, Butthole Surfers, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Big Black, Hüsker Dü, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Mudhoney, The Replacements, Beat Happening, and Dinosaur Jr. Narrators for this special audiobook edition and the chapters they read include: Black Flag - read by Dave Longstreth (Dirty Projectors)The Minutemen -read by Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)Mission of Burma -read by author Jonathan FranzenMinor Threat -read by Laura Jane Grace (Against Me)Hüsker Dü - read by Colin Meloy (Decemberists)Replacements - read by Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats, Bob Mould Band, The Best Show radio show)Sonic Youth - read by Merrill Garbus (Tune-Yards)Butthole Surfers - read by comedian Fred ArmisenBig Black -read by Corey Taylor (Slipknot)Dinosaur Jr -read by Sharon Van EttenFugazi -read by Michael AzerradMudhoney - read by Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie)Beat Happening - read by Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields)

Michael Azerrad (Author), Colin Meloy, Corey Taylor, Dave Longstreth, Fred Armisen, Jeff Tweedy, Jon Wurster, Jonathan Franzen, Laura Jane Grace, Merrill Garbus, Michael Azerrad, Phil Elverum, Sharon Van Etten, Stephin Merritt (Narrator)

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The Golden Thread: A Song for Pete Seeger

With dazzling, lyrical verse in the folk revival style and stunning cut-paper illustrations, Colin Meloy and Nikki McClure pay tribute to Pete Seeger, a visionary who changed the world with song. Pete Seeger once sang that if he had a golden thread, he would use it to weave people from all over the world to one another. That golden thread, for Pete, was music. Born into a family of traveling musicians, Pete picked up his first instrument at age seven. From then on, music was his life, whether he was playing banjo for soldiers during World War II, rallying civil rights activists and war protesters with songs such as "We Shall Overcome," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," and "If I Had a Hammer," or leading environmental efforts to clean up the Hudson River. For decades, Pete Seeger's messages of universal understanding and social and environmental justice inspired generations-and have left a lasting legacy.

Colin Meloy (Author), Colin Meloy (Narrator)

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Wildwood Imperium

A young girl's midnight seance awakens a long-slumbering malevolent spirit . . . A band of runaway orphans allies with an underground collective of saboteurs and plans a daring rescue of their friends, imprisoned in the belly of an industrial wasteland . . . Two old friends draw closer to their goal of bringing together a pair of exiled toy makers in order to reanimate a mechanical boy prince . . . As the fate of Wildwood hangs in the balance. The third book in the Wildwood Chronicles is a rich, moving, and dazzling story, by turns funny and profound. Both Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis are at the height of their gifts with Wildwood Imperium.

Carson Ellis, Colin Meloy (Author), Colin Meloy (Narrator)

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Under Wildwood

Ever since Prue McKeel returned home from the Impassable Wilderness after rescuing her brother from the malevolent Dowager Governess, life has been pretty dull. School holds no interest for her, and her new science teacher keeps getting on her case about her dismal test scores and daydreaming in class. Her mind is constantly returning to the verdant groves and sky-tall trees of Wildwood, where her friend Curtis still remains as a bandit-in-training. But all is not well in that world. Dark assassins with mysterious motives conspire to settle the scores of an unknown client. A titan of industry employs inmates from his orphanage to work in his machine shop, all the while obsessing over the exploitation of the Impassable Wilderness. And, in what will be their greatest challenge yet, Prue and Curtis are thrown together again to save themselves and the lives of their friends, and to bring unity to a divided country. But in order to do that, they must go under Wildwood. In Under Wildwood, Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis reveal new dimensions of the epic fantasy-adventure series begun with the critically acclaimed, bestselling Wildwood.

Carson Ellis, Colin Meloy (Author), Colin Meloy (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Colin Meloy