Julie London: Nice Girls Don’t Stay For Breakfast

The songs of l’Hôtel Bourg Tibourg, an Iggy Pop #PrivateJam, the legend of The Sugarhill Gang's Big Bank Hank and more in our weekly look at music

Hôtel Bourg Tibourg in Paris’ Marais district is letting guests take the hotel’s lobby “soundtrack” home with a mix compiled by Guillaume Sorge. The artistic director at Red Bull Studios Paris has selected 12 songs to take listeners through different decades, countries and styles, evoking the way the hotel’s ambience seems to suspend visitors in time and space. Featuring Julie London’s sultry jazz ballad “Nice …

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The songs of l’Hôtel Bourg Tibourg, an Iggy Pop #PrivateJam, the legend of The Sugarhill Gang's Big Bank Hank and more in our weekly look at music

Jon Hopkins: Form By Firelight (with Raphaelle Standell) English musician Jon Hopkins fine-tuned his ambient electro production skills under the masterful ear of none other than Brian Eno and the conceptual brevity of this mentorship has paid off. Hopkins released his Asleep Versions EP this week, a 25-minute album conceived as a single piece. “Form by Firelight” (with Raphaelle Standell) takes listeners on delicately textured, …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The Brothers Grimm uncut, solar bike paths, a $24 million watch and more in our look at the web this week

1. Keep Time for $24 Million Back in 1999, a watch sold at auction for $11 million, setting a record that was blown out of the water for the first time ever this week. A rare Supercomplication Patek Philippe pocket watch, made in 1932, has just sold at Sotheby’s for $24 million. Yes, it sports 24 complications and 920 components (including 70 jewels), but it …