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
Daily Downloads (Pillars and Tongues, Bestial Mouths, 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: Amanda Jo Williams: "Holster, The Gun It Hangs In There" [mp3] from You're...
Book Notes - Charles Newman and Ben Ryder Howe "In Partial Disgrace"
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 (The Best Books About Haiti, The Greatest Alternative Music Drummers, and more)
Ben Fountain lists the top 10 books about Haiti at the Guardian. SPIN lists the 100 greatest drummers of alternative music. Morning Edition interviews basketball coach Phil Jackson about his new book, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Music Ruined...
Daily Downloads (, 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: Abigail Washburn: free and legal Quake Relief EP [mp3] Dot Dash: "Countdown" [mp3]...
Book Notes - Ru Freeman "On Sal Mal Lane"
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...
This Week's Interesting Music Releases - May 21, 2013
Two of the year's most anticipated albums are released tomorrow, The National's Trouble Will Find Me and Daft Punk's Random Access Memories The Baptist Generals' Jackleg Devotional to the Heart, Beaches' She Beats, and Scout Niblett's It's Up to...
This Week's Interesting DVD Releases - May 21, 2013
True Blood: The Complete Fifth Season and Laverne & Shirley: The Sixth Season are the television highlights among this week's new DVD releases. The Criterion Collection releases an expanded edition of Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool Mel Brooks: Make A...
Shorties (A Short Story on a Stamp, Nina Hagen on Kabarett, and more)
Ireland's newest stamp features an entire short story. The Quietus interviews singer-songwriter Nina Hagen. If you had to explain Kabarett to someone who knew nothing about it, how would you begin? Nina Hagen: I would educate them about the Berliner...
Daily Downloads (Daughn Gibson, Shannon Hayden, 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: The Anatomy of Frank: "Bill Murray" [mp3] from Pangaea (out July 16th) Daughn...
Largehearted Boy Weekly Wrap-Up - May 19th, 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) Ben Greenman for his novel The Slippage Cecil Castellucci for her children's book Odd Duck Norah Labiner...
Shorties (Daft Punk Profiled and Glowingly Reviewed, Khaled Hosseini on Writing, and more)
The Observer profiles Daft Punk. Of course, Daft Punk would argue that any impression of them as people is irrelevant. "The robots are part of the fiction and it's not really interesting to see what's behind it," argues Thomas. "Whe...
Daily Downloads (20 Neutral MIlk Hotel 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...
Contest - Win Michael Moss's Book Salt Sugar Fat and a $100 Threadless Gift Certificate
This weekend, Brooklyn's Prospect Park hosts its second annual GoogaMooga food festival, and I am interviewing Michael Moss there tomorrow about his fascinating book, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. For a chance at winning this...
Shorties (The New Daft Punk Album, The Top 25 Horror Novels for Young Adults, and more)
Spotify is now streaming the new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories (out May 21st). The Guardian reviews the album. Urban Titan lists the top 25 horror novels for young adults. At the New Yorker, authors weigh in on the...
Daily Downloads (Robyn Hitchcock, Sharon Van Etten, 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: The Antlers: 2009-01-22, New York [mp3,ogg,flac] The Antlers: "Harvest Moon (Neil Young cover)"...
Book Notes - Virginia Pye "River of Dust"
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 (Naomi Alderman on Historical Fiction, Kelley Deal on The Breeders' Last Splash Album, and more)
Author Caroline Leavitt interviews herself at The Nervous Breakdown. Read an excerpt from her new novel, Is This Tomorrow. PopMatters lists four remarkable 2013 black metal albums. The Rumpus profiles cartoonist Ariel Schrag. SPIN shares a glossary of terms used...
Daily Downloads (The 2013 Saddle Creek Spring Sampler Album, pacificUV, 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: The Goodly Beggars: free and legal Chew the Pages EP [mp3] Great Divide...
Book Notes - Norah Labiner "Let the Dark Flower Blossom"
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 (An Oral History of The Breeders' Last Splash Album, Neil Gaiman on Writing for Money, and more)
SPIN shares an oral history of the Breeders' 1993 Last Splash album. Talk of the Nation interviews Neil Gaiman about his new book, Make Good Art. On money as a motivator "Whenever I did something where the only reason for...