Downloads

Surfing the Web for new music, video and MP3 downloads can be a serious time investment. Picks from Times staff and contributors will help take the drag out of click-and-drag music choices. Some downloads may contain explicit lyrics. All are free, except as noted. -- Chris Lee

“Hell Yes”

Beck

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A quartet of miniature Sony ORIO robots performs an impressively syncopated fandango in the video shot by “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe” director Garth Jennings.

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“Shake” (featuring Pitbull)

Ying Yang Twins

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This bilingual club banger proves that the marriage of reggaeton and Dirty South dance music is a match made in hip-hop heaven.

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“The Live EP”

The Arcade Fire and David Bowie

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A joint performance in September by the Thin White Duke and the indie rockers has been turned into an Internet-only EP benefiting hurricane relief. Cost: 99 cents per song

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“Give Me Every Little Thing (GMELT)”

The Juan Maclean

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Produced by New York groove collective DFA, “GMELT” typifies this outfit’s disco paradox: It’s scruffy, danceable electronica for people too cool to dance. Cost: 99 cents

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“Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago”

Lee Ann Womack

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Exploring the toll time can take on the heart in “Twenty Years,” Womack sounds like Patsy Cline. Physically, she resembles Sharon Tate in this retro soap operatic video.

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“Random”

Lady Sovereign

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The first stateside single from Britain’s tough-talking teenage rap delinquent features the unmistakably Anglo rhyme couplet: “Some English MCs get it twisted / Saying ‘cookies’ instead of biscuits!”