Blog Profile / largehearted boy
| URL : | http://blog.largeheartedboy.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Music / Indie Music | |
| Posts on Regator: | 6788 | |
| Posts / Week: | 25.4 | |
| Archived Since: | May 7, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Book Notes - Eli Brown "Cinnamon and Gunpowder"
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee...
Largehearted WORD Books of the Week - June 19, 2013
In the Largehearted Word series, the staff of Brooklyn's WORD bookstore highlights several new books released this week. WORD is an independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn, that recently celebrated its sixth anniversary. Our primary...
Atomic Books Comics Preview - June 19, 2013
In the weekly Atomic Books Comics Preview, Benn Ray highlights notable new comics and graphic novels. Benn Ray is the owner of Atomic Books, an independent bookstore in Baltimore. The Mobtown Shank is his blog, and his comic Said...
Shorties (Questlove on His New Memoir, Recommended Graphic Novels for Summer Reading, and more)
Pitchfork interviews Roots drummer Questlove about his new memoir, Mo' Meta Blues. NPR Books recommends five graphic novels for summer reading. Up on the Sun lists 10 metal albums you must hear before you die. Hari Kunzru interviews Rachel Kushner...
Daily Downloads (Ivan and Alyosha, Josh Ritter, and more)
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Bells Atlas: "Kazoo" [mp3] from Bells Atlas Bronze Radio Return: free and legal...
Book Notes - Lori Carson "The Original 1982"
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee...
Shorties (Daft Punk Plays DJ, Recommended Shakespeare Biographies, and more)
The Daft Punk duo spins songs that inspired their latest album Random Access Memories at All Songs Considered. Biographile recommends Shakespeare biographies. LA Music Blog recommends indie running music. The Guardian Architecture and Design blog reviews a show of artwork...
Daily Downloads (The Antlers, Kyle Andrews, and more)
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Beach: "Love Was a River" [mp3] from In Us We Trust (out July...
This Week's Interesting Music Releases - June 18, 2013
Sigur Ros's Kveikur, the band's first release from XL Recordings, is out tomorrow. Austra's Olympia, The Purrs' The Boy With Astronaut Eyes, and Tunng's Turbines are all albums I have heard and can heartily recommend. Kanye West's Yeezus is...
This Week's Interesting DVD Releases - June 18, 2013
The Criterion Collection releases expanded editions of three films this week, Harold Lloyd's classic Safety Last!, William Cameron Menzies' Things to Come, and Frantisek Vlacil's Marketa Lazarova. Happy New Year is a documentary that profiles veterans struggling with PTS...
Shorties (A Whisky and Poetry Reading Series, Stream New Albums by Mavis Staples and Smith Westerns, and more)
Hometown Pasadena profiles the Los Angeles reading series, the Whisky & Poetry Salon. Every two months, Salon attendees bring a poem, original or not, and read it in a candlelit loft surrounded by 30-40 whisky and poetry aficionados. In return,...
Daily Downloads (Dreamboat, Byzantium, and more)
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Boxelders: free and legal Crow/Dandelion EP [mp3] Byzantium: free and legal Byzantium EP...
Largehearted Boy Weekly Wrap-Up - June 16th, 2013
A list of the past week's Largehearted Boy features: Book Notes: (authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates to their book) Andrew Vachss for his novel Aftershock Anton DiSclafani for her novel The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls...
Contest - Win Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies and Wolf Hall and a $100 Threadless Gift Certificate
Summer reading season is upon us, and one of the books I am anxious to finally read is Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, her sequel to Wolf Hall. For a chance at winning these books book and a...
Shorties (Neil Gaiman's Weird London, The Beastles: A Beatles and Beastie Boys Mashup Album, and more)
Neil Gaiman takes a tour of weird London on the Guardian Books podcast. The Beastles mashes up the Beatles and the Beastie Boys on the Ill Submarine album. Time Out London lists its 20 best albums of the year so...
Daily Downloads (12 Replacements Covers and more)
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Every Sunday, Largehearted Boy shares a collection of cover songs. Today's songs were...
Shorties (Neil Gaiman on His New Novel, John Vanderslice on His New Album, and more)
Weekend Edition interviews Neil Gaiman about his new short story collection The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Read an excerpt from the book. John Vanderslice talks to The Record about the inspiration behind his new album, Dagger Beach....
Daily Downloads (Robyn Hitchcock, Low, and more)
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alejandro Escovedo: 2013-06-004, Austin [mp3,ogg,flac] Alejandro Escovedo: "Like a Hurricane (Bob Dylan cover)"...
Book Notes - Andrew Vachss "Aftershock"
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee...
Shorties (Stereotyping You By Your Favorite Music Festival, Chicago's American Writers Museum, and more)
Flavorwire stereotypes you by your favorite music festival. The Wall Street Journal talks to proponents of Chicago's proposed American Writers Museum. The Denver Post profiles the band Parquet Courts. The New York-by-way-of-Texas quartet deals in talky, jokey, sonically compelling songs...