Kiowa County Public Library District

Describes some of the most interesting jobs that take place in the background in the music industry, and what it takes to make it as a musician.

Two idealistic folk singers take up residence at a decadent artists' colony run by a sleazy Svengali, only to revolt against his bourgeois values. Campy cult fare, with "futuristic" production values that wear the indelible stamp of the 1980s' New Wave.

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...

Kai - I had two things in life that mattered. My mother and my music. Mama was taken from too soon, and now music is all I have left. It's the thing that's pushed me right out of backwoods Georgia into Los Angeles, where the line between fantasy and reality shimmers and blurs. I'm finally making my way, making my mark. I can't afford to fall for one of music's brightest stars. Not now. Music is all I have left and I'm holding on tight with both hands....

Audrey Brown, a rising indie star in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn music scene in the early 2000s makes dangerous compromises to survive and becomes enmeshed in a spiraling series of crises after a friend disappears under mysterious circumstances.

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....

"Four of [geriatric mobster Irwin] Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national tour of once-popular rock bands they own a piece of: three nights of concerts by guys (and a few gals) who were big shots back in the 1960s and 1970s, and who are now hoping for one more gasp of glory with this nostalgia exhibition. The Rock of Ages tour has proved itself to be anything but a love fest: plenty of the bandmates have been feuding for forty...