Whether you spent the 4th of July braving the crowds to watch the fireworks or (like us) holed up at home listening to what sounded like the apocalypse unfolding outside, you may well be feeling a little fragile this morning. Either way, rest assured that, as ever, we’ve got your back with a selection of new tunes to ease your transition into the working week. There’s a bunch of interesting music streaming for free on the internet — from The Horrors’ new baggy direction to some Radiohead remixes, blissed-out psychedelic country, and a woman that Brian Eno met at the gym. Listen after the jump.

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For old Smiths fan like us, anything new from one Stephen Patrick Morrissey is always cause for interest, if not necessarily celebration – we’re resigned to the fact that nothing he makes now is going to rival the glory days of The Smiths, but nevertheless, his solo material is still worth hearing. As such, we were excited to hear that he performed three new songs on BBC Radio 2 today, and that these songs are now available online to stream for your listening pleasure. See what we made of them after the jump. (And also click through for new stuff from Brian Eno and Flying Lotus.)

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1. To the surprise of no one, Twilight won big at last night’s MTV Movie Awards: Eclipse won the popcorn for Best Movie, while Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart took home the night’s big acting trophies. Oh, and at some point Pattinson and Taylor Lautner made out or something. [via MTV]

2. Meanwhile, on the weekend’s other awards ceremony, Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards, Jennifer Aniston was honored for her Decade of Hotness. The show will air on Spike this Friday, June 10th. [via PopEater]

3. The Italy-based fourth season Jersey Shore has set its premiere date: August 4th. Honestly, between reports about Ronnie and The Situation‘s fight and the news of Snooki smashing into a police car, we feel like we’ve already seen it. [via WSJ]

4. The nominees for the first Critics Choice Television Awards were announced earlier this morning. Modern Family leads the pack at six nods, with Mad Men close behind at five. Boardwalk Empire, 30 Rock, The Good Wife, and Justified are also well represented. See a full list of nominees at The Wrap.

5. Kanye West has finally released the video for “Monster,” which leaked all the way back in December. This time, it comes with a disclaimer: “The following content is in no way to be interpreted as misogynistic or negative towards any group of people. It is an art piece and it shall be taken as such.” Huh. Watch it at Vulture.

Bonus link: Watch Brian Eno interviewed on Al Jazeera

Rolling Stone, bless them, republished their list of “The 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s” on their website this week. The feature – originally published in 1989 – makes for strange and occasionally bewildering reading. For a start, it’s topped by The Clash’s London Calling, which is undeniably a masterwork but also was undeniably released in 1979 (and no, we’re not buying the January 1980 US release date as an excuse here). Now, we know better than anyone that lists are always subjective, and whatever you include people are going to complain (hey, it’s actually nice to be complaining about someone else’s lists for once). And admittedly, we’re evaluating this list with the benefit of 20 years of hindsight. But even so, there are some glaring omissions from RS’s selection – here are 10 records that really should have featured somewhere near the top, but didn’t feature at all.

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We hope that you loaded up on Record Store Day and are currently lording over your prizes. But for those of you who came out empty-handed or skipped the festivities altogether, never mind all that collective gloating. This week we’ve got some brand new tracks from heavy hitters: Brian Eno, The National, Fucked Up, and Santigold. Plus, Beyoncé is back! Try to contain yourselves. Right click + save as to download each track or scroll down to get the entire mix all at once.

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Last week, we set out to write a fun post pairing books with the ideal albums to listen to while reading them. Little did we know we were creating our new favorite parlor game — the topic, we’ve found, can lead to hours of conversation (at least, if you love books and music as much as we do). And it turns out we’re not the only ones fascinated with the subject. Asked to submit their own pairings in the comments section of the original post, Flavorwire readers came through in a big way. We collect their great suggestions after the jump, from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Explosions in the Sky’s The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Pulp’s Different Class.

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A while back, we posted a selection of our favorite opening lines from literature -– everything from Albert Camus from Mark Twain. The whole thing stirred some healthy debate in the comments section (as did the follow-up post about closing lines), and we liked the idea so much that we thought we’d extend it to the world of music. So here’s a selection of our favorite opening lines of songs. As ever, feel free to add your own in the comments section!

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Word on the internet this week is that a leaked version of David Bowie’s lost 2001 record Toy has slipped out into the wild and is now doing the round on file-sharing sites. Toy is one of many albums over the course of musical history that for one reason or another got delayed, shelved or otherwise waylaid. There’s often a mythology that grows up around such albums, and although the story can sometimes outweigh the actual music – after all, often albums get canned for a reason — there are some that warrant the attention they attract. Here’s our pick of 10 of music’s best lost records — or the ones that sound like they would be the best, if only we could hear them…

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Queens of the Stone Age are re-releasing their self-titled debut album at the moment, 13 years after it introduced the new project for ex-Kyuss guitarist Josh Homme and ex-Dwarves bassist Nick Oliveri to the world. Since then, of course, QOTSA have gone on to global domination, even after Oliveri left in mysterious circumstances in 2004. The whole re-release has got us thinking about just how good QOTSA were when the Homme/Oliveri partnership was at its peak, and as a result, also about bands that haven’t been the same once the creative partnership that drove them came to its inevitable end. The history of rock’n’roll is littered with the fragments of such partnerships. Here are ten of our picks.

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Championed by Nick Cave and Brian Eno and drawing noirish comparisons to early PJ Harvey, British siren Anna Calvi takes a widescreen approach on her stunning debut album.

Calvi, who is half English and half Italian, eschews the de rigeur retro blues of modern English pop in favor of a more cinematic palette. She covered Edith Piaf’s “Jezebel” as her debut single, cites Morricone among her influences, plays stirring flamenco guitar, and revels in the visual aesthetics of Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch.

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