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This book depicts the life and career of Scott Hoying, Grammy Award-winning cofounder of Pentatonix, as seen by his mother Connie. More than just a book about her son’s life, Connie tells a heartfelt story of perseverance, dedication to music, LGBTQ+ acceptance, and supportive parenting.

Entertainment Weekly's Untold Stories podcast, hosted and produced by entertainment journalist Tre'vell Anderson, is a closer look at LGBTQ+ representation in Hollywood from both sides of the camera, Season 1 features conversations with some of our favorite LGBTQ+ entertainers about the queer legends, icons, and contemporaries who inspired their own work and art.  Season 2: Beyond the Binary contributes to popular discourse about representation on and off screen through the lens of the nonbinary actors, musicians, artists and writers paving their own ways. For more please visit ew.com/pride.

Jennifer Ashley Tepper's Untold Stories of Broadway book series is now a podcast! In each episode, the secrets and mysteries of a different Broadway theater will be explored by Tepper and two special guests with connections to that theater from different decades. From the Broadhurst to the Nederlander, from actors to stagehands, from ghost stories to opening nights, from the 1940s to today, expect to discover all kinds of fun and fascinating tales about the theaters at the heart of New York City and everyone who has called them home. A proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network.

In 1988, a new cultural youth movement, known as Acid House, swept across the UK. Was it born out of the disaffection of Thatcher’s Britain? Was it down to the new musical styles emerging from Detroit and Chicago? Or was it just all about The Drugs? Whatever it was, everyone wanted in on it, and before long, it felt like an entire generation was raving in a field with their hands in the air, dreaming of a Promised Land where we would all be Free. Kate Magic was a teenager in those early heady days of acid house, and once the initial euphoric rush had subsided, and everyone had gone back to ...

They sold you a caricature. For decades, the media packaged Michael Jackson's life, labeled it 'madness,' and auctioned it off for ratings. But now, a thread has been pulled in the deep archives of the legal system, and the entire tapestry of lies is unraveling. Let’s unpack the REAL King of Pop. michaeljacksontheuntoldstory.substack.com

In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia as well as entirely different creative terrain. Others, far less fortunate, were in a kind of internal exile-composing under a ruthless dictatorship or in concentration camps and ghettos.

The greatest story never told, this formidable and gorgeously written biography documents the amazing and controversial short life of Calixa Lavallée--the composer of "O Canada"--and the tumult of 19th-century North America. The story of "O Canada" is one of the great unknowns of our collective...

A revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero. "Bring my goat!" Porgy exclaims in the final scene of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. Bess, whom he loves, has left for New York City, and he’s determined to find her. When his request is met with astonishment - New York is a great distance from South Carolina’s Catfish Row - Porgy remains undaunted.

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law - recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in the night. This was no fantasy world populated by Blue Meanies, but by the USSR, where a vast nation of music fans risked repression to hear the defining band of the British Invasion. The music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo played a part in waking up an entire generation of Soviet youth, opening their eyes to seventy years of bland official culture and rigid authoritarianism.

The untold story of 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sister Rosetta Tharpe, America’s first rock guitar diva Long before “women in rock” became a media catchphrase, African American guitar virtuoso Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacular fashion that women could rock. Born in Cotton...

Hear some of the untold stories from US progressive metal band Shadow Gallery on the creation of their albums and their festival performances and tours. If you have questions for the band you’d like to ask, email them to shadowgallerypodcast@gmail.com

Jeder kennt Country Music im deutschsprachigen Raum...wirklich? Was wissen wir hier über diese Musik? Also moderne Country Music? Warum ist gefühlt ein Kilo Staub auf dieser genialen Musik und wie kann ich euch davon überzeugen, dass Country Music cool und modern ist? Natürlich mit einem Podcast rund um die Musik, die ich so liebe und mit der ich seit über 15 Jahren durch den deutschsprachigen Raum toure. Gemeinsam mit verschiedenen Gästen, die nicht unbedingt aus dem Bereich Country kommen, suche ich Antworten und erzähle Geschichten, die bislang unerzählt waren.

The 5 Mics podcast series tells the most significant stories in hip-hop culture. Many stories have never been told, and certainly not with the authenticity, accuracy, and attention to detail that only Breakbeat can deliver. Season 1 of the 5 Mics series is undoubtedly a hip-hop classic! The Source magazine was known in the 1990s as the “Bible Of Hip-Hop.” Among its many contributions, the magazine’s “Unsigned Hype” column ranks near the top. Each month, “Unsigned Hype” would feature one artist selected from hundreds of demo tapes that rappers worldwide would send to the ...