Catch up on a week's worth of downloads
We did some serious sonic traveling with this week's Audiofile downloads. We started in Denmark, with the modern progessive rock sounds of Mew, hit England for the new-soul sounds of the much-hyped Amy Winehouse, spent time with Japan's the Boredoms, went back in time with Billy Murray and ended up with the Afrobeat sounds of Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Antibalas. Unfortunately, Audiofile does not redeem frequent-flier miles.
"Am I Wry? No," Mew
"Rehab," Amy Winehouse
"Jungle Taitei," the Boredoms
"Gasoline Gus and His Jitney Bus," Billy Murray
"I.C.E.," Antibalas (exclusive)
-- D.M.
Great literary podcasts:
"In Walked Bud"
Amiri Baraka
"The Last Days of the Suicide Kid"
Charles Bukowski
"The House on Mango Street"
Sandra Cisneros
"A Reporter's Life,"
Walter Cronkite
"An Open Heart," by The Dalai Lama
Read by Nicholas Vreeman
"Robert Frost Reads"
Robert Frost
"In Harry's Bar in Venice"
Ernest Hemingway
"The War on Drugs"
Bill Hicks
"I Have a Dream"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"King of Horror"
Read by Stephen King
"Motherless Brooklyn," by Jonathan Lethem
Read by Steve Buscemi
"Long Walk to Freedom," by Nelson Mandela
Read by Danny Glover
"Shopgirl"
Steve Martin
"All the Pretty Horses," by Cormac McCarthy
Read by Brad Pitt
"The Bluest Eye"
Toni Morrison
"Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov
Read by Jeremy Irons
"The Bell Jar,"
Sylvia Plath
"The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe
Read by Basil Rathbone
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," by JK Rowling
Read by Jim Dale
"Everything"
Henry Rollins
"Fast Food Nation," By Eric Schlosser
Read by Rick Adamson
"Me Talk Pretty One Day"
David Sedaris
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
Dylan Thomas
"Slaughterhouse Five"
Kurt Vonnegut
"Hooking Up"
Tom Wolfe
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