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December 8, 2008
Shorties (Duffy, My Brightest Diamond, and more)
Yesterday's additions to the "best of 2008" online book lists include Stephen King's best books, NPR's best graphic novels, and Chicken Spaghetti's list of children's book lists.
Yesterday's additions to the "best of 2008" online music lists include the Observer Music Monthly's best albums, mp3hugger's best songs, and the Times Online's best albums.
ES Magazine profiles Welsh songstress Duffy.
Jeannette introduced Duffy to Suede's ex-guitarist Bernard Butler, with whom she wrote 'Rockferry', the title track of her debut album. 'The moment I started to feel good about myself the songs started to come,' she says. They spent three years honing her sound, and in 2007 a deal was signed with A&M Records and hers is the voice of 2008. It took me an hour each way to drive to this interview and I heard snippets of her songs no less that nine times on the car radio as I flicked between stations. Duffy is part little girl and part exhausted soul.
Billboard reports that holiday album sales are down as much as 50% this year.
PopMatters kicks off its "best of 2008" lists with the 50 best singles of the year.
Amazon is offering a digital download of Stars' Set Yourself on Fire album for only $1.99.
In the Jungle lists 10 things media player Songbird does that iTunes can't.
Perpetual Folly lists literary magazines by Pushcart Prizes awarded and Special Mentions in Fiction since 2000.
Daytrotter's Monday session features in-studio mp3s by My Brightest Diamond.
Five Chapters is serializing new short fiction this week by Jon Raymond (whose story collection Livability will be published later this month by Bloomsbury).
also at Largehearted Boy:
Online "best of 2008" music lists
Online "best of 2008" book lists
daily mp3 downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
tags: music books popculture indie news
