May 14, 2013
Book Notes - Ben Greenman "The Slippage"
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 Bender, Myla Goldberg, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others.
Ben Greenman's new novel The Slippage is a perceptive and eloquent depiction of suburbia and marriage.
The Kansas City Star wrote of the book:
"His sharp insights into suburban claustrophobia and impotent rage are highlighted by striking images and well-tooled prose."
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In his own words, here is Ben Greenman's Book Notes music playlist for his novel, The Slippage:
In the past I have written book notes for What He’s Poised to Do and A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both, collections of short stories that came out in 2010 and 2007. This time, the book in question is called The Slippage, and it's a novel, and it's coming out as we speak from Harper Perennial. Other books I've written have been, sometimes, manic with regard to imagination, incontinent in various ways. This one is more controlled, largely because of its plot—it's the story of a forty-something couple in a possibly failing marriage in the suburbs, and a stretch of life during which the woman, Louisa, asks the man, William, to build her a new house. The suburbs are a major character: they help create a sense of emptiness and silence that gives the characters plenty of space to reflect but also oppresses them. As a result, I have picked songs about the suburbs, more or less.
The Kinks, "Shangri-La" (1969)
It's rare to be able to pinpoint an exact starting point for a writing project, but I know that this book had its start in this song, and specifically in a line that Ray Davies wrote that I think about all the time: "And all the houses in the street have got a name / Cause all the houses in the street they look the same." That's a perfect compression of one of the main ideas here, which is how we distinguish ourselves from one another. Our insides may be different (by insides here, I mean desires, fears, ambitions) but the skins are very similar. The suburbs is a particularly accurate illustration of this principle.
Dionne Warwick, "A House is Not a Home" (1964)
I named the second section of the book after this song. It seemed like a no-brainer: It's one of the towering achievements of the decade, possibly the best Bacharach-David composition. And it's thematically pertinent as well. A structure is only a structure, meaningless unless filled by meaning. William and Louisa, the central couple in my book, struggle with this distinction repeatedly, in the house where they live, in the house where they may one day live, and in many other houses they visit along the way.
The Residents, "Suburban Bathers" (1980)
It seems strange to write a more traditional work and then go looking to the Residents for inspiration. On the other hand, if you were going to pick a Residents album that follows conventions while at the same time subverting them, you'd pick Commercial Album. "Suburban Bathers" also makes some superb observations about self-knowledge: "If I'd learn to love myself / I might survive the murky depths."
Carole King, "My Simple Humble Neighborhood" (1975)
King's song is about the magic of home, the sense of hope that comes from comfort, the joys of dreaming big. My characters deal with their neighborhood differently. For starters, they're adults, not children, which means that their souls have ossified to some degree as a result of work and disappointment. Also, there's more responsibility than comfort, more pressure than freedom. These things reverse the circuit.
Ween, "So Many People In the Neighborhood" (2003)
This is the counterweight to the Carole King song above: there's no Really Rosie here, only really creepy faces peering from behind curtains, and the title repeated until it become a slogan and then a threat, and a final lyrical burst about "socks and locks and cocks and rocks." Those are, as everyone knows, the four building blocks of deceptive domesticity.
Tim Hardin, "If I Were A Carpenter" (1967)
I have written books that were overtly about music, like Please Step Back (a funk-rock novel about a fictional Sly Stone-type musician in the 1960s and 1970s), and books where music was referenced often (like Superbad or Celebrity Chekhov). In this book, there's only one song mentioned overtly, and it's this one. William is sitting on the deck and hears it coming out of a portable radio. The lyrics strike him as lyrical but also incomprehensible, a kind of poetry that doesn't solve anything in his increasingly claustrophobic life.
Jonathan Richman, "The Neighbors" (1983)
I was mindful throughout this book of not straining for effect, either via image or form or metafictional trickery. I wanted, to the degree that it was possible, to be straightforward about things. Is that what Jonathan Richman does? You could say that, though you could also say that he appears to do that while doing the diametric opposite. This song relates a dialogue between Jonathan and a woman in which his presence in her house presents some problems. He's worried that if anyone sees him leaving, they might tell his wife, and that would create marital discord. On the other hand, he doesn't want to let the neighbors run his life. My main character, William, faces a very similar situation, but he is not holding a guitar.
Little Richard, "Slippin' and Slidin'" (1956)
Recently, at an event, a woman I knew came up to me and asked me if she was the only one who thought the title of my book, The Slippage, sounded dirty. She wasn't. When the title was first announced, a British man wrote me to tell me that it was slang for screwing. I defer to Little Richard. Is there a more exciting, breakneck song about attraction and risk? No man can resist a solid sender.
Ben Greenman and The Slippage links:
the author's website
the author's Wikipedia entry
Chicago Tribune review
Kansas City Star review
New York Observer review
New York Times review
Believer interview with the author
Cultist profile of the author
Forbes interview with the author
Interview Magazine interview with the author
Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay by the author for A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both
Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay by the author for What He's Poised to Do
Miami Herald interview with the author
The Millions contributions by the author
Page Views profile of the author
The Rumpus interview with the author
also at Largehearted Boy:
Book Notes (2012 - ) (authors create music playlists for their book)
Book Notes (2005 - 2011) (authors create music playlists for their book)
my 11 favorite Book Notes playlist essays
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
52 Books, 52 Weeks (weekly book reviews)
Antiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (weekly comics highlights)
Daily Downloads (free and legal daily mp3 downloads)
guest book reviews
Largehearted Word (weekly new book highlights)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Shorties (daily music, literature, and pop culture links)
Soundtracked (composers and directors discuss their film's soundtracks)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from the week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
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May 14, 2013
Shorties (An Interview with Marge Piercy, Stream New Albums by The National and Daft Punk, and more)
Ms. Magazine interviews author Marge Piercy.
iTunes is streaming the new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories.
The Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature poster lists famous drinks from books and movies, complete with recipes.
iTunes is streaming the new album by the National, Trouble Will Find Me.
Stereogum ranks Will Oldham albums from worst to best.
The New Yorker features a new Ben Marcus short story.
Breeders bassist Josephine Wiggs talks to PopMatters about recording the band's Last Splash album
UK and Republic of Ireland cartoonists: entries are open for the 2013 Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize.
The music supervisor for the television show Nashville explains the wisdom behind her song choices to All Things Considered.
Flavorwire lists 20 funny rock songs.
Airship daily lists the 10 "coolest eastern-European books you've never heard of."
Paste lists 100 great workout songs.
Win new novels by Jennifer Gilmore and Monica Drake plus a $100 Threadless gift certificate in this week's contest at Largehearted Boy.
Amazon MP3 offers 100 albums on sale for $5 each.
Amazon MP3 offers over 1,400 albums on sale for $3.99.
Amazon MP3
Amazon MP3 offers over 400 jazz albums on sale for $1.78.
Amazon MP3
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also at Largehearted Boy:
previous Shorties posts (daily news and links from the worlds of music, books, and pop culture)
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
Atomic Books Comics Preview (the week's best new comics & graphic novels)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
daily mp3 downloads
Largehearted Word (the week's best new books)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
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Daily Downloads (Dawes, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, 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:
Broken Twin: two tracks [mp3]
Dawes and Shovels and Rope: free and legal Summer Tour Sampler EP [mp3]
Hey Anna: free and legal Pompette EP [mp3]
The Morals: "Birds" [mp3] from Music, Tree, Life, Understanding
The Morals: "Noah Part I" [mp3] from Music, Tree, Life, Understanding
No Middle Name: "When Forever Ends" [mp3]
Scott and Charlene's Wedding: "Fakin' NYC" [mp3] from Any Port In A Storm (out July 22nd)
Statistics: "Take the Lead" [mp3] from Peninsula (out June 25th)
The Vincent(s): "Asked Her To The Dance" [mp3]
VOWS: "Symbol System" [mp3] from VOWS EP (out June 4th)
Free and legal live performances at other websites:
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper: 2013-05-11, Brooklyn [mp3]
search for more free and legal music downloads at Largehearted Boy
also at Largehearted Boy:
other daily free and legal mp3 downloads
covers collections
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Shorties (daily music, books, and pop culture news and links)
Soundtracked (composers and directors discuss their film's soundtrack)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from the week's CD releases)
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May 13, 2013
This Week's Interesting Music Releases - May 14, 2013
Pitchfork gave Vampire Weekend's new album Modern Vampires of the City a 9.3, its highest rating of the year so far.
Small Black's Limits of Desire, Dungeonesse's self-titled album, The Dillinger Escape Plan's One of Us Is the Killer, The Handsome Family's Wilderness, and Sam Amidon's Bright Sunny South are all albums I have heard and can recommend.
The most intriguing album of the week, The Fall's Re-Mit, is available digitally today.
The 25th anniversary edition of R.E.M.'s Green has been remastered and includes a bonus disc of rarities.
What new releases are you picking up this week? What can you recommend? Have I left anything noteworthy off the list?
This week's interesting music releases:
The Fall: Re-Mit
ADULT.: The Way Things Fall
Anamanaguchi: Endless Fantasy
Beaches: She Beats
Ben Lee: Welcome to the Work
Bibio: Silver Wilkinson
Blank Tapes: Vacation
Boxer Rebellion: Promises
The Breeders: Last Splash (3-CD box set) (reissued with bonus tracks)
Cheap Trick: The Complete Epic Albums Collection (14-CD box set)
Depeche Mode: Soothe My Soul
Destroy This Place: Destroy This Place
DEVO: Live 1981: Seattle
The Dillinger Escape Plan: One of Us Is the Killer
Dungeonesse: Dungeonesse
Eluvium: Nightmare Ending
The Features: This Disorder
Four Tet: Rounds (reissue)
Gotye: Like Drawing Blood (reissue)
The Handsome Family: Wilderness
Huey Lewis and the News: Sports (30th Anniversary Edition) (remastered with bonus CD)
John Grant: Pale Green Ghosts
Jont: Hello Halifax
Kings of Leon: The Collection Box (5-CD and 1-DVD box set)
Kisses: Kids in L.A.
Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood: Black Pudding
MS MR: Second Hand Rapture
Nick Drake: Bryter Layter (reissue) [vinyl]
Orange Peels: Sun Moon
Peals: Walking Field
The Phoenix Foundation: Fandango
Pure X: Crawling Up the Stairs
R.E.M.: Green: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (remastered with bonus CD)
Roomrunner: Ideal Cities
Saltland: I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us
Sam Amidon: Bright Sunny South
Small Black: Limits of Desire
Snowden: No One in Control
Standish/Carlyon: Deleted Scenes
Tea Leaf Green: In the Wake
Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City
Various Artists: Everybody Has a Story
Wild Nothing: Empty Estate
also at Largehearted Boy:
other weekly CD & DVD release lists
100 online sources for free and legal music downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (music from this week's CD releases)
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This Week's Interesting DVD Releases - May 14, 2013
The Criterion Collection releases two classic Westerns directed by Delmer Daves this week, Jubal and 3:10 to Yuma, which both star Glenn Ford.
Cloud Atlas, the film adaptation of David Mitchell's novel of the same name, hits stores tomorrow.
Beware of Mr. Baker is a documentary that profiles Cream and Blind Faith drummer Ginger Baker.
Television offerings include Dexter: The Seventh Season as well as budget complete series box set editions of
Roseanne, 3rd Rock From the Sun, and That 70s Show.
The 30th anniversary edition of Fraggle Rock, contains the complete series along with a collectible Red keychain and graphic novel.
What new releases are you picking up or adding to your streaming queue this week?
This week's interesting DVD releases:
3:10 to Yuma (Criterion Collection)
3rd Rock From the Sun - The Complete Series
The Adventures of Super Mario Brothers 3: The Complete Series
Back to 1942
Bearcats! The Complete Series
Beware of Mr. Baker
Bill Moyers: Beyond Hate
The Bletchley Circle: Cracking a Killer's Code
Brave New World
Cloud Atlas
Combat!: The Complete Second Season
Dexter: The Seventh Season
Doctor Who: The Visitation (Special Edition)
Face 2 Face
Fraggle Rock: 30th Anniversary Collection
Frankie Go Boom
Frontline: Raising Adam Lanza
Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
Home Sweet Home
If I Were You
Jubal (Criterion Collection)
Leonie
Liz and Dick
Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Early Years
The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection
The Mulberry Tree
MythBusters: Collection 9
Of Two Minds
Roseanne: The Complete Series
Save the Farm
Second Life
Secrets of War - Vietnam - A War Unwanted
Taz-Mania: Taz on the Loose- Season One, Vol. 1
Texas Chainsaw
That 70s Show - The Complete Series
Tomorrow You're Gone
Top Gear 19
Transmigration
The Unbelievable Truth
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous weekly music & DVD release lists
Soundtracked (directors and composers discuss their film's soundtrack)
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Shorties (James Salter on the Diminishing Power of the Novel, Vampire Weekend Gets Pitchfork's Best Review of the Year So Far, and more)
All Things Considered interviews James Salter about his new novel All That Is.
On his character's observation that the 'power of the novel in the nation's culture has weakened'
"I guess I believe it. My feelings are probably more sentimental than rational. The culture is what it is. It reforms itself, it is freshened by certain things, it is polluted by other things, and it continually revives and presents itself. So it's an unfortunate thing for a certain kind of novelist, or maybe for an older novelist. But apart from that, I don't know if it's a grave thing."
Pitchfork gave the new Vampire Weekend album, Modern Vampires of the City (out tomorrow), a 9.3, its highest rating of the year so far.
The Rumpus interviews author Emily Rapp.
Stereogum reviews the new album by the National, Trouble Will Find Me.
Melissa Mohr talks to Morning Edition about her new book Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing.
NPR Music is streaming The Handsome Family's new album Wilderness (out May 14th).
Author Amy Brill interviews herself at The Nervous Breakdown.
Weekend Edition examines MIDI's contribution to modern music.
Tablet profiles author Walter Mosley, who discusses how his Jewish experience shaped his life.
Pitchfork is streaming the new Dillinger escape Plan album, One of Us Is the Killer (out May 14th).
The A.V. Club lists 13 surprising celebrity novelists.
Sabotage Times shares a fanboy's guide to the best Daft Punk songs.
The Berkshire Eagle profiles cartoonist Howard Cruse.
Win new novels by Jennifer Gilmore and Monica Drake plus a $100 Threadless gift certificate in this week's contest at Largehearted Boy.
Amazon MP3 offers 100 albums on sale for $5 each.
Amazon MP3 offers over 1,400 albums on sale for $3.99.
Amazon MP3
Amazon MP3 offers over 400 jazz albums on sale for $1.78.
Amazon MP3
Follow me on Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Google+, Facebook, and Stumbleupon for links (updated throughout the day) that don't make the daily "Shorties" columns.
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous Shorties posts (daily news and links from the worlds of music, books, and pop culture)
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
Atomic Books Comics Preview (the week's best new comics & graphic novels)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
daily mp3 downloads
Largehearted Word (the week's best new books)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
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Daily Downloads (Eisley, Cheyenne Mize, 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:
Adam Arcuragi: free and legal A Short Compilation of Songs EP [mp3]
Cheyenne Mize: free and legal NoiseTrade Sampler EP [mp3]
The Coyote Affair: free and legal Vietnam EP [mp3]
Darkpine: free and legal 2-track Cognitus (Sacred Tourist) / Ivory single [mp3]
Eisley: free and legal Currents and More Sampler album [mp3]
Graham MacRae: "Game Changer" [mp3] from Dundrearies (out May 21st)
Kin: free and legal Soon EP [mp3]
Liz Wood: free and legal Into My Own EP [mp3]
Lost Tapes: "War in the Netherlands" [mp3] from Eardrums Pop EP
Nicholas Altobelli: free and legal The Lucky Ones EP [mp3]
Free and legal live performances at other websites:
Field Report: HearYa session [mp3]
search for more free and legal music downloads at Largehearted Boy
also at Largehearted Boy:
other daily free and legal mp3 downloads
covers collections
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Shorties (daily music, books, and pop culture news and links)
Soundtracked (composers and directors discuss their film's soundtrack)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from the week's CD releases)
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May 12, 2013
Largehearted Boy Weekly Wrap-Up - May 12th, 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)
Bill Loehfelm for his novel The Devil in Her Way
Cate Lineberry for her book The Secret Rescue
Elanor Dymott for her novel Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Joanna Hershon for her novel A Dual Inheritance
Michael Zapruder for his poetry anthology and album Pink Thunder
Sean Murphy for his graphic novel Punk Rock Jesus
Win Jennifer Gilmore's novel The Mothers, Monica Drake's novel The Stud Book, and a $100 Threadless gift certificate in this week's contest at Largehearted Boy.
Weekly New Book Recommendations:
Atomic Books Comics Preview (recommended new comics and graphic novels)
Largehearted Word (recommended new books)
New Music Recommendations:
Try It Before You Buy It (full album streams and mp3s from this week's music releases)
The Week's Interesting Music Releases
New DVD recommendations:
The Week's Interesting DVD Releases
And of course, the daily music and news posts:
Daily Downloads (10 free and legal mp3 downloads every day, plus links to free live recordings online)
Shorties (news & links from the worlds of music, books, and pop culture)
also at Largehearted Boy:
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
Antiheroines
Atomic Books Comics Preview
Book Notes
Contests / Giveaways
Daily Downloads
Largehearted Word
Lists
music & DVD release lists
musician/author Interviews
Note Books
Soundtracked
Try It Before You Buy It
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Contest - Win Jennifer Gilmore's The Mothers and Monica Drake's The Stud Book and a $100 Threadless Gift Certificate
Since today is Mother's Day, this week's prizes are two of the year's finest literary explorations of motherhood, Jennifer Gilmore's The Mothers and Monica Drake's The Stud Book.
For a chance at winning these novels and a $100 Threadless gift certificate, share your favorite fictional mother from pop culture (books, television, film, or theater). My choice: Rosa Achmetowna from Alina Brodky's novel The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, one of the most fascinating mothers ever portrayed.
One winner, chosen randomly from the commenters, will receive the following prizes:
Jennifer Gilmore's novel The Mothers
Monica Drake's novel The Stud Book
A $100 Threadless gift certificate to buy book-related t-shirts like Storytellers, The Best Channels Since 1465, Fahrenheit 451, Brainy Rainbow, or Word!, and music-related t-shirts like Death Note, Funkalicious, Music Snob, or anything else that catches your fancy.
If you have already have these books or they don't interest you, I am happy to substitute a second $100 Threadless gift certificate for them.
The winner will be chosen randomly at midnight ET Friday evening (May 17th).
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous and ongoing contests at Largehearted Boy
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
Atomic Books Comics Preview (highlights of the week's new comics)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Daily Downloads (daily free and legal music downloads)
Largehearted Word (highlights of the week's book releases)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Shorties (daily links from the worlds of music, literature, and pop culture)
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Shorties (James Salter Profiled, A Hip-Hop Tour of Brooklyn, and more)
The Observer profiles author James salter.
Who is James Salter? It may be that you have never heard of him. Salter is not famous the way Philip Roth and John Updike are famous, nor half so prolific; his reputation rests on just two collections of short stories, five (now six) novels and a memoir, Burning the Days. But he is, nevertheless, the kind of American writer who is sometimes called great: a stylist, a purist, a guy who really socks it to you, however elegantly. His books, which are about valour and women and the sadness that doggedly inhabits the everyday, are strangely timeless – they skirt politics, and even brand names, as if such things are a little dirty – and yet they seem also to belong to another age; something in them brings to mind Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, even Graham Greene, beside whose papers Salter's own notebooks lie at the Harry Ransom Centre at the University of Texas.
The New York Times shares a hip-hop tour of Brooklyn.
The Observer profiles 12-year-old comics sensation Zoom Rockman.
Zoom Rockman is a 12-year-old prodigy who writes, illustrates and biannually publishes his own internationally acclaimed comic, The Zoom! It's a snappy, satirical critique of urban life – the new issue tackles the horsemeat scandal – with characters like Skanky Pigeon and celebrity cameos such as Boris Johnson. It's genuinely hilarious.
BBC News reports that New College Nottingham is offering a two year degree in heavy metal.
The Guardian profiles composer Van Dyke Parks.
The Guardian lists the top 10 books on Burma.
The Telegraph features an exclusive stream of "Blackbird" from Paul McCartney and Wings' remastered album Wings Over America (out May 28th).
All Things Considered interviews Neal Thompson about his new book A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley.
Members of the National talk to the Guardian about their forthcoming album, Trouble Will Find Me (out May 21st).
Weekend Edition talks to Anchee Min about her new memoir The Cooked Seed.
Minneapolis band Crimes visits The Current studio for an interview and live performance.
Amazon MP3 offers 100 albums on sale for $5 each.
Amazon MP3 offers over 1,400 albums on sale for $3.99.
Amazon MP3
Amazon MP3 offers over 400 jazz albums on sale for $1.78.
Amazon MP3
Follow me on Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Google+, Facebook, and Stumbleupon for links (updated throughout the day) that don't make the daily "Shorties" columns.
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous Shorties posts (daily news and links from the worlds of music, books, and pop culture)
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
Atomic Books Comics Preview (the week's best new comics & graphic novels)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
daily mp3 downloads
Largehearted Word (the week's best new books)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
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Daily Downloads (13 Radiohead 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 all originally performed by Radiohead.
Check out the entire list of cover song posts at Largehearted Boy.
Camera: "Idioteque (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Emily Neveu (Calico Horse): "Idioteque (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Glen Phillips: "Exit Music (for a Film) (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Grand Lake: "The Tourist (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Guster: "Creep (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Janice Whaley: "I Will (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Local H: "Creep (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Perhaps Contraption: "National Anthem (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Sara Watkins: "No Surprises (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Trampled by Turtles: "Exit Music for a Film (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Trampled by Turtles: "Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Vienna Teng: "Idioteque (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Watkins Family Hour: "Nice Dream (Radiohead cover)" [mp3]
Free and legal live performances at other websites:
Red Wanting Blue: LaundroMatinee session [mp3]
search for more free and legal music downloads at Largehearted Boy
also at Largehearted Boy:
other daily free and legal mp3 downloads
covers collections
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Shorties (daily music, books, and pop culture news and links)
Soundtracked (composers and directors discuss their film's soundtrack)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from the week's CD releases)
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May 11, 2013
Shorties (Searching for Daisy Buchanan's House, How Music Blogging Has Evolved, and more)
WFPL reports that people in Louisville are searching for the inspiration behind Daisy Buchanan's house in The Great Gatsby.
Hypebot contributors explain how music blogging has changed over the years.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks to Weekend Edition about her new novel Americanah.
The Vancouver Sun profiles the Icelandic indie folk band Of Monsters and Men.
New York Times technology writer David Pogue revisits the e-book piracy debate.
Weekend Edition interviews guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen about his new memoir Relentless.
At Publishers Weekly, Jennifer Gilmore lists the 10 worst mothers in books.
The Chicago Tribune lists memorable mothers in literature.
All Things Considered interviews the music supervisor of the new Great Gatsby film adaptation about its soundtrack.
A Blog Supreme offers a "DIY guide to the history of women in jazz."
Flavorwire shares Merchandise with The Great Gatsby theme.
Amazon MP3 offers 100 albums on sale for $5 each.
Amazon MP3 offers over 1,400 albums on sale for $3.99.
Amazon MP3
Amazon MP3 offers over 400 jazz albums on sale for $1.78.
Amazon MP3
Follow me on Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Google+, Facebook, and Stumbleupon for links (updated throughout the day) that don't make the daily "Shorties" columns.
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous Shorties posts (daily news and links from the worlds of music, books, and pop culture)
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
Atomic Books Comics Preview (the week's best new comics & graphic novels)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
daily mp3 downloads
Largehearted Word (the week's best new books)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
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