Free music.

Hey look, David Byrne and St. Vincent have released some music as a free download. They’ve called it the Brass Tactics EP. Follow the link for your download. [via Love This Giant]

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Rojak: New albums galore.

Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog.

Assorted

Chinua Achebe dies. [via The Guardian]

Deerhunter’s upcoming new album will be called Monomania. [via Obscure Sound]

Meanwhile, The National’s new album is called Trouble Will Find Me and will feature guests including St. Vincent and Sufjan Stevens. [via Consequence of Sound]

And while we’re at it, here’s the full list of Record Store Day releases. [via Consequence of Sound]

Sigur Rós also have a new album coming. It’ll be called Kveikur and here is a song from it. [via Pitchfork]

A Neil Gaiman story. [via The Guardian]

How the New Yorker rejected itself. [via the review review]

Winners of the Sony World Photography Awards. [via The Telegraph]

On video games and storytelling: an interview with Tom Bissell. [via The New Yorker]

The Pixies’ Surfer Rosa is 25, and Consequence of Sound put together this handy YouTube list of all of its tracks. [via Consequence of Sound]

Vladimir Nabokov gives an A. [via NYRB]

The vinyl edition for David Bowie’s The Next Day is now confirmed for a 1st April release (no joke), and one of the places you can get it from is the official site. [via David Bowie]

Bulletin

This week:

• Harry Mathews.
• A bit on Philip Roth.
• Who turned 80.
• Anne Carson’s Red Doc>.
• The Golden Point Awards are back.
• And, I have a new book.

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(David Byrne + St. Vincent) x Colbert

David Byrne and St. Vincent appear on Colbert. Videos in the link. [via Consequence of Sound]

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More mail.

Hey, something appeared in my mailbox today and happily joins Love This Giant on the shelf…

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Edition Additions: Monday mail.

In this special edition of Edition Additions, you get to see what I spend my money on (books aside). The brand spanking new edition of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus makes an appearance, but I also received Love This Giant and a Monty Python tee today.

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Rojak: Beauty and the beast.

Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog.

Assorted

Philip Roth writes an open letter to Wikipedia. [via The Book Bench]

Interview with Freddie Mercury’s mother. [via The Telegraph]

Hands-on with the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. [via Engadget]

Pitchfork reviews the new Mount Eerie, Ocean Roar. [via Pitchfork]

They also interview St. Vincent and David Byrne about Love This Giant. [via Pitchfork]

Save that science fiction. [via Ars Technica]

Kubrick’s fondness of the one-point perspective. [via io9]

Bulletin

This week:

• Animal Collective and Centipede Hz.
• Atoms For Peace.
• St. Vincent and David Byrne.
• John Cage.
• Nicanor Parra.
• The Singapore Literature Prize.
• Harry Mathews.

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Good morning from David Byrne and St. Vincent.

Here is the video for “Who” off of their collaborative album Love This Giant. [via YouTube] It features David Byrne and St. Vincent/Annie doing funky dances.

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P.S. My copy shipped yesterday!

More St. Vincent.

Annie Clark on performance crowds, collaborating with David Byrne, “Krokodil”, and Arrested Development. [via YouTube]

(What a nice hat!)

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Love This Giant preorder.

You can preorder the David Byrne and St. Vincent collaborative album Love This Giant right now in the link. [Preorder here]

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Rojak: Debacle.

Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog.

Assorted

Details for the St. Vincent and David Byrne collaborative album, Love This Giant. [via Consequence of Sound]

On the Volkswagen and Beach House “Take Care” debacle. [via Pitchfork]

A new cover for Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. [via New Directions]

NYRB to launch ebook line. [via Publishers Weekly]

Cat Power on her new album, Sun, due out in September. [via Consequence of Sound]

Notes on Notes from Underground. [via The Book Bench]

I’m not sure about this. [via Pigeonsandplanes.com]

Book carvings by Guy Laramee. [via Colossal]

A new Radiohead song appears. [via Consequence of Sound]

Bulletin

This week was a Good Music Week. Here’s who appeared:

• Radiohead.
• Georges Delerue.
• The Walkmen.
• St. Vincent (on a Brian Eno song).
• Gil Shaham.

Other things:

• Enrique Vila-Matas’s Dublinesque.
• Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
• Witold Gombrowicz’s Diary.

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