NPR is streaming the new Rufus Wainwright album, Out of the Game (out May 1st). The New Yorker features an excerpt from Ian McEwan's forthcoming novel, Sweet Tooth . Tone Deaf interviews Mountain Goats bassist Peter Hughes. The Brooklyn Baker (the official caterer of the [...]
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: Bleating Hearts : "Walls Come Tumbling Down" [mp3] from Bleating Hearts search for more Bleating Hearts posts at Largehearted Boy Candidate : "April Again" [mp3] [...]
A list of the past week's Largehearted Boy features: Book Notes : (authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates to their book) Dan Barden for his novel The Next Right Thing Janyce Stefan-Cole for her novel Hollywood Boulevard Joe Schuster for his novel The Might Have Been Jurgen Fauth for his novel [...]
Thomas E. Barden talks to Weekend Edition about the new book, Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War , which he edited. "If you read the dispatches, it's as if he truly believes it as much as Lyndon Johnson did — Domino Theory, the winnability," Barden says. Even Steinbeck's own son confronted him — in Vietnam — to argue that the war was wrong — "that all the troops were stoned, that the body count wasn't accurate, that it was a mess and we ought to get out. [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Every Sunday, 10 live performances that span a single artist's musical career are shared. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Kaki King : 2011-05-15, Berlin [mp3,ogg,flac] Kaki King: "Magazine" [mp3] Kaki King : 2010-05-05, Ann Arbor [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
Last week's contest , which offered Jonathan Lethem's new 33 1/3 book on Talking Heads' Fear of Music album , prompted several friends to ask me about my favorite books in this series on seminal albums. This week, I am giving away two of those favorites, and turning the concept around by asking you which books deserve an album written around them. To enter this week's contest, name a book that deserves its own concept album. Bonus points (and a bonus $100 Threadless gift certificate) if you match the book to a specific musical [...]
Billboard profiles the band Beach House and the making of their new album, Bloom (out May 15th). Legrand and Scally conceptualized "Bloom" on tour before recording with "Teen Dream" producer Chris Coady at Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas, and mixing at New York's Electric Lady Studios. Bursting with dew-dappled guitar patterns and crisp, haunting vocals, Bloom was created in about nine weeks. The process utilized Sub Pop's resources to create Beach House's most expansive-sounding effort yet. [...]
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: Alabama Shakes : 2012-04-11, New York [mp3,ogg,flac] Alabama Shakes: "Always Alright" [mp3] search for more Alabama Shakes posts at Largehearted Boy Caitlin Rose : 2012-02-17, Nashville [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
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 , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Dan Barden's The Next Right Thing is a literary thriller that lives up to both halves of the term. Filled with [...]
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 , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Janyce Stefan-Cole's debut novel Hollywood Boulevard is a literary Hollywood noir gem, skillfully told and peopled with unforgettable characters. [...]
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 , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Kirby Gann's novel Ghosting is a dark, violent, and utterly captivating novel about drugrunning and addiction set in rural Kentucky. [...]
Record Store Day is tomorrow. All Songs Considered lists 13 reasons to visit your local record store day. Paste and Flavorwire recommend albums you should buy on Record Store Day. Free Comic Book Day is May 5th. Neon Tommy interviews Lev Grossman about his books The Magicians and The Magician [...]
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 Driftwood Singers : "I Don't Live Here Anymore" [mp3] from I Don't Live Here Anymore (out May 8th) search for more Driftwood Singers posts at Largehearted Boy Kaia Wilson [...]
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 , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Rob Jovanovic's new book Seeing the Light: Inside the Velvet Underground is the most thorough history of the band I have [...]
Wine Enthusiast offers lists Paris's literary bar scene. The TM Daily Post is streaming Todd Snider's new album, Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker (out May 1st). The Atlantic profiles author and filmmaker Stephen Elliott . Los Angeles Review of Books founder Tom Lutz talks to [...]
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: Doe Paoro : free and legal (name your price) Slow to Love album [mp3] search for more Doe Paoro posts at Largehearted Boy Efren : "The Woods and the [...]
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 , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Joe Schuster's debut novel The Might Have Been features a baseball player, but is hardly a baseball novel. The book richly uses the sport as metaphor, and its character [...]
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 What? is syndicated weekly in the Baltimore Sun's B-Paper. Atomic Books has been named one of Bizarre Magazine's 51 geekiest places on the planet , as well as one of Flavorwire's 10 greatest comic and graphic novel stores in America . [...]
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 fifth anniversary. Our primary goal is to be whatever our community needs us to be, which currently means carrying a lot of paperback fiction (especially classics), cookbooks, board books, and absurdly cute cards and stationery. In addition, we're fiends for a good event, from the classic author reading and Q&A to potlucks and [...]
Jack White talks to All Songs Considered about the making of his solo album, Blunderbuss (out April 24th). At the New York Times , Ann Patchett discusses her reaction to the Pulitzer committee's decision not to issue a fiction prize this year. As a novelist and the author of an eligible book, I do not love this. It's fine to lose to someone, and galling to lose to no one. [...]
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Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
Bison - Quill
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Mr Fogg - Eleven
