Download or read book Outside the Jukebox written by Scott Bradlee and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the sensation Postmodern Jukebox -- with millions of fans globally -- comes an inspirational memoir about discovering what you love and turning it into a creative movement. With student loan debt piling up and no lucrative gigs around the corner, Scott Bradlee found himself in a situation all too familiar to struggling musicians and creative professionals, unsure whether he should use the little income he had to pay his rent or to avoid defaulting on his loans. It was under these desperate circumstances that Bradlee began experimenting, applying his passion for jazz, ragtime, and doo wop styles to contemporary hits by singers like Macklemore and Miley Cyrus--and suddenly an idea was born. Today, Postmodern Jukebox -- the rotating supergroup devoted to period covers of pop songs, which Bradlee created in a basement apartment in Queens, New York--is a bona fide global sensation, having collected more than three million subscribers on YouTube while selling out major venues around the world and developing previously unknown talent into superstar singers. From its Etta James-inspired rendition of Radiohead's "Creep" to its New Orleans jazz interpretation of Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass," the group has established a sound like no other, crafting hits as exquisitely sublime as they are humorously absurd. But it wasn't always as easy as the YouTube videos make it look. As he worked to establish Postmodern Jukebox, Bradlee struggled through the obstacles that every self-employed artist or entrepreneur with a vision faces: how to collaborate successfully on teams with divergent visions, how to outrun the naysayers, how to chase the next innovation when your reputation makes others start to pigeonhole you, and so many of the other challenges lining the path to success. Taking readers through the false starts, hilarious backstage antics, and unexpected breakthroughs of Bradlee's journey from a lost musician to a musical kingmaker -- and presenting all the entrepreneurial insights he learned along the way -- Outside the Jukebox is an inspiring memoir about how one musician found his rhythm and launched a movement that would forever change our relationships to our favorite songs.

Download or read book The Celestial Jukebox written by Cynthia Shearer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boubacar, a 15-year-old boy from Africa, moves to a rural Mississippi Delta town and soon visits The Celestial Grocery, the city center presided over by a cranky second-generation Chinese proprietor and his equally cranky jukebox. The tie that binds these lives is American popular music.

Download or read book The Jukebox Man written by Jacqueline K. Ogburn and published by Dial. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After watching her grandfather repair broken jukeboxes and change records at diners, restaurants, fish camps, and truck stops, a little girl dances with him to her favorite tune.

Download or read book How to Be a Man written by Duff McKagan and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the collective wisdom gained from fatherhood, business school, and some of the greatest rock bands of all time

Download or read book The Method written by Alex Cavazos and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Method that Alan was taught had to have so much concentration and imagination about what was on the script, and that nothing else matters but being able to be that character and living the role, not just acting it, putting himself into a mode to where he would visualize and feel so much more than any other actor could by staying in the role throughout the whole shoot, living the character as if he transformed into them--mentally and physically--not knowing what the consequences could be. By learning such a profound way of acting, he struggles to be what he once was, before all the characters he's had to be, using this Method.

Download or read book Jukebox written by Vincent Lynch and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jukebox America written by William Bunch and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his journeys throughout the United States, in search of the ideal jukebox and the treasures of old popular, rock, and country music it would hold

Download or read book Repair written by Ed Pavlic and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can recover from terrible ruptures, the pandemic, toxic politics, racist horrors, class warfare, gendered violence, and ecological brinksmanship. Individually and collectively, we bear deep wounds. Some of these are generations old; all have been worsened by a destructive period of pyrrhic politics that left us ill-equipped to respond to a global health catastrophe. As we struggle to recover our footing and grieve our dead, Boston Review believes that the arts must have a voice in the conversation about how we heal. In this new anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays from renowned writers and newcomers, writers explore whether and how we can repair terrible ruptures, life-threatening illnesses and the pandemic, toxic politics, racist horrors, class warfare, gendered violence, and ecological brinksmanship. Contributors Ariella Aisha Azoulay, Kemi Alabi, Donia Elizabeth Allen, Don Mee Choi, Adebe DeRango-Adem, Emma Dries, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Randall Horton, Savonna Johnson, Kim Hyesoon, Maya Marshall, Colleen Murphy, Simone Person, aureleo sans, Bishakh Som, Olúfmi O. Táíwò, Meredith Talusan, Brian Teare, Yiru Zhang

Download or read book The Alibi Club written by Jaco van Schalkwyk and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998 a young South African arrives in Brooklyn, New York. He becomes a bartender at The Alibi, a dive full of blue-collar workers, drug dealers, music lovers and Guinness. At The Alibi, locals play pool and watch Jeopardy! as triple-A-listers from Manhattan eye their neighbourhood’s tree-lined avenues and buy up its historical brownstones. Soon soya milk and organic vegetables take up shelf space where cheap cleaning products and anaemic limes used to be. The Alibi is also the place from where its regulars experience the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, which leaves New York dripping with distrust while terror ripens on its sidewalks. The Alibi Club, Jaco van Schalkwyk’s poignant debut novel, is a unique document about a city, a neighbourhood, and the lives of individuals, all changed irrevocably.

Download or read book The Man I Should Have Married written by Pamela Redmond and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the hit novel-turned-TV show Younger comes The Man I Should Have Married, an irreverent second-chance at love story for thirtysomethings. Goodbye downward dog... When Kennedy’s husband, Frank, up and leaves her for his high school ex, a surfer named Sunny, then announces he’s going to quit the law firm to teach yoga, Kennedy is finally free to do what she’s always wanted to do with her life. Now if she can only figure out what that is. Determined to bring the spirit and independence of her former self to her life as a suburban mom, Kennedy visits some of her old New York City haunts, including Declan McGlynn’s—the Greenwich Village bar where she used to work. Lo, Declan himself is behind the bar—and he's just as sexy...and single...as ever. Hello downtown Don Juan... Kennedy and Declan were friends for years and lovers for one amazing night before Kennedy, a single mom at the time, picked stability over passion. Back then Declan wasn’t exactly the marrying kind. But that was a long time ago, and a lot has changed—except for the connection between these two. It’s enough to prove that whoever said “you can never go back” is flat-out wrong. Right?

Download or read book The Leak written by Kate Reed Petty and published by First Second. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling middle-grade graphic novel The Leak, Ruth, a young journalist, is determined to uncover a secret that threatens her town. Ruth Keller is brash and precocious; she argues with her dentist, her parents, and her teachers. So, when she discovers a strange black slime in the man-made lake of her suburban neighborhood, she decides to investigate. Fortified by the encouragement of those around her, Ruth seeks the truth at all costs, even if it means taking on the rich local country club owner, who she believes is responsible for the pollution. Between the teasing of former friends, and a sudden viral spotlight, Ruth discovers how difficult it is for a journalist to take a stand for what's right in the face of critique and controversy. From writer Kate Reed Petty and illustrator Andrea Bell, comes a story about corruption, pollution, and freedom of the press, and the young journalist at the center of it all.

Download or read book GLEN written by Bryan Gorrison and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glen, fresh out of jail, tries to make his way back into the world he once knew, only to be quickly swept into the dregs of the city. The drug “mina” runs rampant through the veins of society, leaching the very life away from landscape. When Glen falls in with the syndicate who controls mina, he learns that there is much more to the drug than he thinks. Soon he goes too far for the people he is working for and finds that things are much worse than they appear to be.

Download or read book Six Under After Five written by Lowell Leffler and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous collection of short stories that will keep you turning the page Hop into the author’s DeLorean and travel back to a simpler and less complicated time. A time when the most advanced technology included vinyl records, transistor radios, black and white TV, and the Drive-In movie theatre. No one ever told the inhabitants that small towns were supposed to be quiet, safe, and boring. The only limits were determined by our imaginations. While all of the events in Six Under After Five actually occurred, any of the stunts listed should only be attempted by a trained professional. The book is designed to be enjoyed 5 minutes at a time. The odds are you won’t put it down after 5 minutes, but like Netflix, binging is optional. Each story can be read in the time it takes to drink a coffee, sit down for a rest, or even a quick trip to the washroom. Why You NEED to Own This Book 1. There are enough pages herein for two adults to last through 67 days of a toilet paper shortage. 2. Once on the New York Times Bestseller list, the price will undoubtedly double to $1.49. 3. It is a proven cure for insomnia With all the complications of the modern world, we have forgotten how to laugh. Six Under After Five is a reminder to live life to the fullest and have some fun along the way.

Download or read book A Music Journey Remembered The Life and Times of Brad Evans Musician written by Bradley W. Kuhns and published by Bradley Kuhns. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad Evans has been an entertainer for over 50 years. Brad and his group, "The Encores," made a unique sound that crossed all racial, ethnic and cultural lines. Starting with Brad's humble beginnings growing up in a small coal mining town in Pitt Gas, Pennsylvania, to rolling with the famous "Rat Pack", as a musician, sideman and studio musician. Brad lived in an adult Disneyland, a world where partying, booze, superfine ladies and big money was the norm in the raucous 50s, 60s and 70s. He crossed paths with the mob an rubbed shoulders and became friends with some of America's biggest stars like: Elvis, The Rat Pack, Nat King Cole and daughter Natalie, Frankie Laine, Phyliss Diller, Burt Reynolds and many other celebrities of the day. He was popular, in demand, an was asked to perform with headliners. Brad was a shy and polite person who accepted the entertainment business in stride. Brad and his groups on-stage presence made him somewhat of a Vegas nightclub staple. Brad became involved with numerous women during his music career and had many colorful relationships. This book is an interesting tale of a musicians life of ambition, heartaches - -and a life with few regrets.

Download or read book The Bootlegger s Daughter written by Ms. Dorothy and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was raised in a café my first years of living. My father’s brother and his wife raised me on their own. There was bootlegging, gambling, police raids, and people put in jail. I didn’t get to church very much, but there were older women around who looked out for me the best they could. I was molested, burned with a cig, and drunk by the time I was eight. I picked a little cotton as time went on. I became a businesswoman, and an addict of crack cocaine and drank heavily. I had a child at fourteen, she had one at thirteen, and so I was a grandmother at twenty-eight. But I loved learning. God and books turned my life around. To me, no matter what you go through, you can overcome it. Don’t let your pride hold you back. There is a power greater than all of us, who is willing and will to help you. Keep the faith; if I did it, so can you. In reading this book, it will show you that we all go through something. Most importantly, love yourself. My title is a very true story. I hope that by reading this book, it will help you. Now we have drug dealers, then, in my day, we had booze.

Download or read book Jukebox written by Nidhi Chanani and published by First Second. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab some coins for the jukebox, and get ready for a colorful, time-traveling musical tale about friendship and courage. A mysterious jukebox, old vinyl records, and cryptic notes on music history, are Shaheen's only clues to her father's abrupt disappearance. She looks to her cousin, Tannaz, who seems just as perplexed, before they both turn to the jukebox which starts...glowing? Suddenly, the girls are pulled from their era and transported to another time! Keyed to the music on the record, the jukebox sends them through decade after decade of music history, from political marches, to landmark concerts. But can they find Shaheen’s dad before the music stops? This time-bending magical mystery tour invites readers to take the ride of their lives for a coming-of-age adventure.

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1971-05-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.