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Rod's life is going well until his rich, prankster cousin, Blake, moves in for three months--moving into his room and moving in on his girlfriend and band--ruining everything.

I look at the music. Okay. Here goes. I flip the Rock Beat # 3 switch and get ready to count one and two and three...I can't hear Rock Beat # 3. Nothing. Now there is a judge by my side. She pushes the On button and the Perfectone D-60 wheezes to life, with Rock Beat # 3 booming so loud some little kid starts crying and has to leave. My foot slips on the pedal. Just keep playing.

A family of bears experiences America in an illustrated version of the classic song.

-- Who Is Bruce Springsteen? Who Is Stevie Wonder? By Jim Gigliotti; read by Dominic Hoffman. Listen to find out more about a talented boy who signed to Motown Records when he was just eleven years old; a musician, singer, and songwriter who has always defended civil and human rights; and one of the greatest musical superstars of our time.

If not for her loving but controlling parents, Beth Prudhomme might never have taken charge of her life and moved from her native Chicago to Portland, Oregon, where she has reconnected with her spirited Aunt Sunshine and found a job as a high school music teacher. If not for her friend Nichole Nyquist, Beth would never have met Sam Carney, although first impressions have left Beth with serious doubts. Sam is everything Beth is not -- and her conservative...

Nine-year-old Josefina wants to give up learning to play the piano until she sees the joy it brings to her baby nephew. Discusses the importance of music on the New Mexican frontier and describes how to dance La Vaquerita.

Oscar® winner Anne Hathaway stars as Franny in SONG ONE, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of Brooklyn s vibrant modern-folk music scene. After Franny s musician brother Henry is injured and hospitalized in a coma following a car accident, Franny returns home after a long estrangement and begins to use his notebook as a guide to how his life has evolved in her absence. Franny seeks out the musicians and artists Henry loved, in the course...

Filtering R&B, pop, and hip-hop through an ambitious widescreen lens, the Weeknd quietly took over popular music and culture on his own terms. Features the global hits Heartless and Blinding Lights.