Words & Music

Hey folks!  Here’s a look at new music and books hitting the shelves today from your pals here at RazorFine!  Today’s new books include the latest novel of Anne McCaffrey’s Twins of Petaybee Series, new novels from Linda Fairstein, Salmon Rushdie, and Laura Lippman, and examinations of Nixon’s trip to China and Buck O’Neil’s baseball career.  Today’s new music includes albums from Shawn Mullins, Mike Patton, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, and Randy Jackson presents a new volume of tunes for all you Idol fans.  Check out all this and more inside the Full Diagnosis.

Today’s new books include:

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein

The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell

Deluge (Twins of Petaybee Series #3) by Anne McCaffrey

Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman

The Undead Kama Sutra by Mario Acevedo

Gift of the Unmage (Worldweavers Series #1) by Alma Alexander

Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillian

The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America by Joe Posnanski


Today’s new music includes:

Honeydew – Shawn Mullins

A Perfect Place – Mike Patton

Music Club, Volume 1 – Randy Jackson

Ego Trippin’ – Snoop Dogg

Diamond Hoo Ha – Supergrass

Ready to Strike – King Kobra

Trilla – Rick Ross

The Hits – Kelis

Now That’s What I Call the 80’s – Various

10,000 B.C. (Original Score)

Feature Album:

Thirteen years after the release of their first self-titled album The Presidents of the United States release their sixth album entitled These Are the Good Times People.  The new album contains 14 tracks including “Mixed Up S.O.B.,” “Sharpen Up Those Fangs,” “More Bad Times,” “Truckstop Butterfly,”So Lo So Hi,” and “Deleter.”  Most remember the group for their early songs including “Lump” and “Peaches,” but I always remember them most fondly for their cover version of the Buggle‘s 1979 hit “Video Killed the Radio Star.”