Last week, Peter Higgs from the UK, and Francois Englert from Belgium, jointly won the Nobel prize for their work on the Higgs boson particle. As it turns out, there’s a song – not merely about their discovery, but rather about many other things, called the Higgs Boson Blues. Enjoy.

And, of course, Metallica’s original —

Fans of the BBC series Luther know that the series begins with the theme song Paradise Circus from Massive Attack, and it ends with The Black Keys’ cover of Never Gonna Give You Up. Enjoy.

With an NSA-surveillance theme, where everyone’s a wanted man or woman: MGMT Album Trailer from The Avant/Garde Diaries on Vimeo.

Can anything be played as a jazz tune? Pehaps.

Happily fulfilling a reader’s request for a Monday song:

How about some happy Monday music? I don’t know much about klezmer, except that it’s mostly celebratory music, with both jazz and pre-jazz strains. In any event, it’s easy to enjoy.