WFPL reports that people in Louisville are searching for the inspiration behind Daisy Buchanan's house in The Great Gatsby . Hypebot contributors explain how music blogging has changed over the years. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks to Weekend Edition about her new novel Americanah . The Vancouver Sun profiles the Icelandic indie folk band Of Monsters and [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Deep Dark Woods : 2013-04-20, Zurich [mp3,ogg,flac] The Deep Dark Woods: "Diamond Joe" [mp3] Josh Ritter : 2013-04-20, St. Louis [mp3,ogg,flac] Josh Ritter: "New Lover" [mp3] [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Joanna Hershon's A Dual Inheritance is a sweeping and impressive character-driven novel, one that follows a compelling and vividly drawn love [...]
Fresh Air interviews Claire Messud about her new novel The Woman Upstairs . "As a reader since very early I have found myself drawn to rants," she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I was in my senior year of high school when I read Notes From Underground by Dostoyevksy and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Anatomy of Frank : "Bill Murray" [mp3] from Pangaea (out July 16th) German Error Message : "There's a Place" [mp3] Graham MacRae [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Bill Loehfelm's The Devil in Her Way sees his heroine from The Devil She Knows move from Staten Island [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Michael Zapruder's Pink Thunder is many things, including a modern poetry anthology, a music album, and grand experiment. Zapruder set many [...]
Bookworm interviews author Margaret Atwood. Watch a video for the National's "Sea of Love." The band did an interview with the Reddit community. Huffington Post shares an excerpt (and seven cocktail recipes) from Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist . Pitchfork profiles the band Vampire Weekend. [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bridges and Powerlines : "Ghosts of a Different Dream (Guided By Voices cover)" [mp3] Cillie Barnes : "Brainwash" [mp3] from Happy Valley Dark for Dark : "Sweetwater" [mp3] [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Cate Lineberry's The Secret Rescue offers an often overlooked perspective of World War II, through the eyes of nurses and medics. [...]
In the Largehearted Word series, the staff of Brooklyn's WORD bookstore highlights several new books released this week. WORD is an independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn, that recently celebrated its sixth anniversary. Our primary goal is to be whatever our community needs us to be, which currently means carrying a lot of paperback fiction (especially classics), cookbooks, board books, and absurdly cute cards and stationery. In addition, we're fiends for a good event, from the classic author reading and Q&A to potlucks and [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Sean Murphy's graphic novel Punk Rock Jesus vividly explores themes of religion, politics and modern culture with a unique premise: the [...]
In the weekly Atomic Books Comics Preview , Benn Ray highlights notable new comics and graphic novels. Benn Ray is the owner of Atomic Books , an independent bookstore in Baltimore. The Mobtown Shank is his blog, and his comic Said What? is syndicated weekly in the Baltimore Sun's B-Paper. Atomic Books has been named one of Bizarre Magazine's 51 geekiest places on the planet , as well as one of Flavorwire's 10 greatest comic and graphic novel stores in America . [...]
Margaret Atwood offers tips for writing about dreams at the New York Review of Books . NME lists 20 things you didn't know about Blur's classic Modern Life Is Rubbish album (which was released twenty years ago). Crave lists 13 bad literature to film adaptations. Flavorwire lists 10 albums made for incredibly strange reasons. [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Cool Ghouls : "Natural Life" [mp3] from Cool Ghouls Debbie Neigher : "Atoms" [mp3] Dillon Hodges : "Bullet for a Broken [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Elanor Dymott's debut novel Every Contact Leaves A Trace is an impressive dark and tense literary thriller. The [...]
Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal mp3 downloads and full album streams from the week's music releases : AA Wallace: (disambiguation) AA Wallace: "Temporal Suspension" [mp3] Ann Pragg: Bitter Fruit Ann Pragg: "Demolition Dust" [mp3] [...]
Haruki Murakami made his first public appearance in Japan in 18 years to discuss his new novel. "At the beginning, I was planning to write something allusive, as in my past works," Murakami said at the seminar on Monday. "But this time I developed a great interest in expanding on real people. Then the characters started to act on their own. I was intrigued by the relationships between people." Stream Vampire Weekend's new album , Modern Vampire [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Blood Arm : "Bubblegum" [mp3] from Infinite Nights (out June 17th) The End of America : "Cemetery" [mp3] from Shakey [...]
Savages' Silence Yourself , one of the finest albums of the year so far, is the highlight of this week's music releases. Other notable releases this week include Noah and the Whale's Heart of Nowhere , She and Him's Volume 3 , Deerhunter's Monomania , and The Great Gatsby soundtrack . What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list? [...]
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MP3: Daft Punk – “Horizons” (RAM Japanese Bonus Track)
Akabu feat. Alex Mills – Everybody Wants Something (Joey Negro Strip Mix) [New Release]
Giorgio Moroder's first-ever DJ Set
Seven Lions: Fevers (Feat. Minnesota and Mimi Page)
Listen to producer Jacques Greene’s “On Your Side,” featuring How To Dress Well
