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Silver Wilkinson, Bibio, Warp
Dungeonesse, Dungeonesse, Secretly Canadian
Lip Lock, Eve, Eleven Seven/From The Rib Music
Beyond Wilderness, Gold & Youth, Arts & Crafts
Pale Green Ghosts, John Grant, Bella Union/Partisan/Novato Records
Kids in L.A. , Kisses, Cascine
Limits of Desire, Small Black, Jagjaguwar
If The River Was Whiskey, Spin Doctors, Ruf Records/Japanese Import
Fandango, The Phoenix Foundation, Memphis Industrial/Memphis Industries
The Greatest Generation, The Wonder Years, Hopeless/Hopeless Record
Modern Vampires Of The City, Vampire Weekend, XL/Sony Japan
No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers, Vår, Sacred Bones
Curiosity, Wampire, Polyvinyl
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Knopf
My Struggle, Karl Knausgaard, Don Bartlett, Archipelago Books
Inferno, Dan Brown, Knopf Doubleday
Make Good Art, Neil Gaiman, William Morrow & Company
Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend, XL
Volume 3, She & Him, Merge/Double Six
MCII, Mikal Cronin, Merge
Monomania, Deerhunter, 4AD
Prisoner of Conscious, Talib Kweli, Blacksmith Records
Strange Pleasures, Still Corners, SubPop
La Musique Numerique, AM & Shawn Lee, Park the Van
More Than Just A Dream, Fitz & The Tantrums, Elektra
Magnetic, Goo Goo Dolls, Warner Bros.
Takes Time, Jim Guthrie, Static Clang
Nocturnes, Little Boots, On Repeat Records/Vinyl Factory
American Kid, Patty Griffin
Time, Rod Stewart, Capitol Records
Dossier K, Imre Kertész, Melville House
A Delicate Truth, John le Carré, Viking
Red Moon, Benjamin Percy, Grand Central Publishing
The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey, Putnam Juvenile
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra, Hogarth
Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, Janet Malcolm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Long Live The King, Fay Weldon, St. Martin’s Press
Miss Julie, Neil LaBute (Adapter), Overlook TP
Love Is Power, or Something Like That, A. Igoni Barrett, Graywolf Press
Darkness Sticks to Everything, Tom Hennen, Copper Canyon Press
Pacific, Tom Drury, Grove Press
Black Aperture, Matt Rasmussen, Louisiana State University Press
Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012, Lisa Jarnot, City Lights Publishers
Thresherphobe, Mark Halliday, University of Chicago Press
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud, Knopf
A Guide to Being Born, Ramona Ausubel, Riverhead Books
The Blue Fox, Sjón (Translated by Victoria Cribb), Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Whispering Muse, Sjón (Translated by Victoria Cribb), Farrar, Straus and Giroux
From the Mouth of the Whale, Sjón (Translated by Victoria Cribb), Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Blind Man’s Garden, Nadeem Aslam, Knopf
The End of the World in Breslau, Marek Krajewski, Random Hosue
The Tudor Plot, Steve Berry, Random House
NOS4A2, Joe Hill, William Morrow
12th of Never, James Patterson, Cornerstone Digital
A Guide to Being Born, Ramona Ausubel, Riverhead Books
The Morels, Christopher Hacker, Soho Press
THR!!!ER, !!!, Warp
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If You Leave, Daughter, Glass Note/4AD
English Little League, Guided By Voices, Fire Records/GBV
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Tears on Tape, H.I.M., Razor & Tie/Universal
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Ready to Die, Iggy & The Stooges, Fat Possum/Sony
Crooked In My Mind, Koji, Cobraside/Run For Cover Records
Siberia Acoustic, Lights, Last Gang Records/Universal
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Praxis Makes Perfect, Neon Neon, Lex
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Selfhood, Sharks, Rise Records
Supermigration, Solar Bears, Planet Mu
Such Hot Blood, The Airborne Toxic Event, Island
…And It Shook Me, The Postelles, +1 Records
Cooked, Michael Pollan, The Penguin Press HC
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris, Little, Brown and Company
The Humanity Project, Jean Thompson, Blue Rider Press
The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker, Harper
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, Rhonda Riley, Ecco
Tape Deck Heart, Frank Turner, Polydor
Bye Bye 17, Har Mar Superstar, Cult Records
Junip, Junip, Mute/City Slang/Universal
The Golden Sun Of The Great East, Juno Reactor, Metropolis/Pwmet
Danish and Blue, Lilacs & Champagne, Kemado/Mexican Summer
To Be Loved, Michael Buble, 143 Records/Reprise
I Love You, The Neighborhood, Columbia Records
Wait to Pleasure, No Joy, Kemado/Mexican Summer
Bankrupt!, Phoenix, Glassnote/Atlantic
Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor, Rob Zombie, Universal/Zodiac Swan
Blood Speaks, Smoke Fairies, Cooperative/V2/Year Seven Records
Reincarnated, Snoop Lion, RCA/Red Ink
Love has come for you, Steve Martin & Edie Brickell, Rounder
Illumination Ritual, The Appleseed Cast, Graveface Records
Time Stays, We Go, The Veils, Pitch Beast Records
Spirit In The Room, Tom Jones, Island/Universal/Rounder
Ultramarine, Young Galaxy, Paper Bag Records
True Romance, Charli XCX, Asylum
Descender, Andrew Wyatt, Downtown Records/Universal
Tragic Care, Folly and The Hunter, Outside Music
Twelve Reasons to Die, Ghostface Killah, Relativity/Soul Temple
Ghost on Ghost, Iron & Wine, 4AD/Nonesuch
Devotion, Jessie Ware, Island/Universal
Indicud, Kid Cudi, Island/Universal
Rat Farm, Meat Puppets, Megaforce
The Low Highway, Steve Earle, New West
The Terror, The Flaming Lips, Bella Union/Lovely Sorts of Death/Warner Bros
Alone Aboard the Ark, The Leisure Society, Full Time Hobby
Legendary, The Summer Set, Fearless Records
Desperate Ground, The Thermals, Saddle Creek Records
Floating Coffin, Thee Oh Sees, Castle Face
Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Willie Nelson, Sony Legacy
Mosquito, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interscope/Polydor
Amity & Sorrow, Peggy Riley, Little, Brown & Co.
The Carrion Birds, Urban Waite, HarperCollins
The Astor Orphan, Alexandra Aldrich, HarperCollins
Letters to a Young Scientist, Edward O. Wilson, Liveright Publishing Corporation
Fishing Stories, Henry Hughes, Random House
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, Willa Cather, Random House
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May 17, 2013
The guide to French rap
Though rap was born and bred aux Etats-Unis, rap has been huge in France since the 1980s. This guide touches on all the big names, from France’s equivalent of NWA to Odd Future to heavily auto-tuned mainstream rappers like T-Pain. (via Noisey)
May 17, 2013
Goodbye, chick lit
Hello, farm lit? Chick lit has been replaced with a new genre, where the city girl ditches her Monolos and cosmopolitans for the rough charm of the countryside. (via The Atlantic)
May 17, 2013
Technology you didn’t know you knew
MIDI, the technology that allows computers to recognize and communicate with instruments, turns 30 this year. Though the technology hasn’t altered much in that time, popular music certainly has. (via NPR)
May 17, 2013
“I have an epithalamion to write and cannot worry much”
A newly (re)discovered journal of W.H. Auden provides insight into the life of the poet during an important era in his life. The document has an estimated value of between £40,000 and £60,000. (via The Independent)
May 17, 2013
Happy Birthday
Bill Bruford
Kent, England, 1949. The original drummer for Yes, he played with many rock bands over the span of his long career before focusing on jazz.
May 17, 2013
Happy Birthday
Dorothy Richardson
Abingdon, England, 1873. A journalist and writer of modern stream-of-consciousness novels, she was affiliated with progressive circles such as the Bloomsbury Group. She died in 1957.
May 16, 2013
Third Man Records reissues
Jack White’s record label is working with Sun Records to reissue classics from the ‘50s. The first three releases, Rufus Thomas’ “Bear Cat” (1953), the Prisonaires’ 1953 “Just Walking in the Rain” (1953) and Johnny Cash’s “Get Rhythm” (1956), go on sale May 21st. (via Paste)
May 16, 2013
J.D. Salinger documentary film
The film, which will be released this September, has been purposefully shrouded in mystery. Matthew Salinger, son of the infamously private author, has stated that neither he nor his father were involved at all in the project. (via The New York Times)
May 16, 2013
Learn guitar from a rock god
In the first episode of Guitar Moves, a new series that allows viewers to hang out with rock legends, The Stooges’ James Williamson gives a guitar lesson and talks about his life. (via Noisey)
May 16, 2013
Book cover brainstorming
Here’s a slideshow about the creative process of four designers who assume we do judge books by their covers. (via NYTimes)