Brady Gilbert, leading man in Caprice Crane's novel, Stupid and Contagious, is a struggling music entrepreneur with a dream – quit struggling so much. Here's what's in Brady's earbuds now...

Meanwhile, Phil (Brady's business partner in Stupid and Contagious) has developed a counter-playlist, a sort of "anti-Bradian" playlist. Click here for Phil's alternate listening universe...
  • St. John the Divine - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
  • Hold Your Breath - Denali
  • Finding Out True Love Is Blind - Louis XIV
  • F**k The Pain Away - Peaches
  • Little Thoughts - Bloc Party
  • Girl - Beck
  • Tomorrow Tomorrow - Elliott Smith
  • Hurt - Johnny Cash
  • The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret - Queens of the Stone Age
  • Golden - My Morning Jacket
  • So Jealous - Tegan and Sara
  • Strange and Beautiful - Aqualung
  • Title and Registration - Death Cab For Cutie
  • Midnight Blues - The Detroit Cobras
  • Song To The Siren - Robert Plant
  • Little Guitars - Van Halen
  • Lover I Don't Have to Love - Bright Eyes
  • Turn My Camera On - Spoon
  • Heaven's Dead - Audioslave