The Future Dictionary of America includes an amazing CD sure to rock your pants off. The 2005 and 2006 Music issues of the Believer are also likely to leave you trouserless. Together, they make up the Music Bundle, a sonic depantser unlike any known heretofore.
From the Future Dictionary you'll receive new songs and rarities from David Byrne, R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Sleater-Kinney, Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Bright Eyes, They Might Be Giants, Elliott Smith, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and many others.
The June 2005 Music Issue of the Believer includes a free compact disc spring-loaded with seventeen cover songs performed by Devendra Banhart, the Constantines, Ida, Spoon, CocoRosie, the Mountain Goats, and the Decemberists, each responding to the question, "What have you been listening to lately?" Fully 82 percent of the music on the CD was recorded specifically for this compilation, and is currently unavailable elsewhere.
The 2006 music issue comes with a CD with fifteen tracks of mostly exclusive, original, and live music from righteous pioneers of song such as Calexico, Destroyer, The National, Juana Molina, and Six Organs of Admittance. Per usual the issue is also suffused with essays and interviews, things like Rich Cohen's deep history of Paul Anka’s ’70s anthem “My Way”, Don DeLillo's conversation with Greil Marcus regarding Bob Dylan, Rick
Moody's favorite concert of all time, plus Sarah Vowell, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, Moldovan-Romanian boy band destruction, and more.
