Kid Koala at the Music Hall of Williamsburg for his latest album, 12 bit blues
Morning Tunes: Reagenz / Dinner with Q
The Picador Book Room: Punk Singles (1976-1979)
The following is an excerpt and Spotify playlist pulled from Dylan Jones’s The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music.
The early days of punk were analogous to present-day activity on the web — scattershot releases, limited edition rather than viral, but still with an urgent guerrilla…
Cartoony
Citizens Dub / Bok Bok
The Royal Tenenbaums / Love Lockdown
Jon Convex / What I Need feat. Velvit
Music video swapping at the Picador office
The Detachments / Circles (Martyn’s Round & Round Mix)
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Kid Koala / 8 bit Blues (Chicago to LA to NY) (Official Video)
From the Picador Art Department
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Gangnam Latte
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In rotation: Headhunter / Prototype (Modeselektor’s Broken Handbrake Remix)
THE MARRIAGE PLOT begins with an epigraph from the Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime.”
With that in mind, we asked Jeffrey Eugenides if he would curate a playlist to be used as a soundtrack to the book. He picked songs that he thought Madeline, Leonard, and Mitchell might have been listening to in the early 1980s (pre-1983).
Click play on the cover above for the playlist to launch in your Spotify player.
Let us know what songs you would have added to the list. We’ve added a Spotify Collaborative playlist to our PicadorUSA Spotify account so that you can add your own Marriage Plot picks. Enjoy!
If you don’t have Spotify, the playlist is after the jump.
