June 30, 2009
Try It Before You Buy It (June 30th, 2009 Music Releases)
Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal mp3 downloads and full album streams from this week's music releases:
Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan: In Session (remastered)
full album stream
All Smiles: Oh For The Getting and Not Letting Go
full album stream
Amy Speace: Killer in Me
"The Killer in Me" [mp3]
Leslie Mendelson: Swan Feathers
full album stream
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June 30, 2009
Shorties (Femi Kuti, Wilco, and more)
Decider Chicago interviews Femi Kuti.
Paste has turned over its website to Wilco coverage today (in honor of the release of Wilco (The Album).
Features include their five favorite nonsensical Wilco lyrics.
Yesterday's updates to the 2009 Bonnaroo music festival live show downloads page include lossless bittorrent downloads of the Beastie Boys and Phish shows.
At her Monitor Mix blog, Carrie Brownstein ponders the merits of the Pixies playing their entire Doolittle album on tour next year.
I wonder, however, if the album format--either recorded or live-is too contradictory to our contemporary listening habits. Might not we prefer a carefully crafted set list; one that would prevent too many slow songs from occurring in a row or ensure a variety of tempos? And what if all of our favorite songs are spread out over a few different records? I mean, who wants to hear those contemplative songs that don't sound as good without the dulcimer and horn section that were added during the recording?
The Art of Manliness lists the 50 essential non-fiction adventure books.
TIME interviews Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy.
At NPR Music, singer-songwriter Maria Taylor plays a tiny desk concert.
Eye Weekly interviews Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo.
Popdose interviews singer-songwriter Amy Speace.
Newsweek lists 50 books for our times.
Pitchfork has an mp3 download of a new Fleet Foxes song.
Bjork guest DJs at NPR's All Songs Considered.
Enter the latest Largehearted Boy contest and win 75 CDs.
Follow me on Twitter for links that don't make the daily "Shorties" columns.
also at Largehearted Boy:
daily mp3 downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
tags: music books popculture indie news literature
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Daily Downloads (Dead Weather, Malcolm Middleton, and more)
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads:
Bloodsport: "Swallowing Werewolves (I Heard Mary Timony Used to Live There)" [mp3] from Goodbye to the Holy Mountain (out July 7th)
other Bloodsport posts at Largehearted Boy
The Dead Weather: "Treat Me Like Your Mother" [mp3]* from Horehound (out July 14th)
other Dead Weather posts at Largehearted Boy
Explosions in the Sky: 2007-11-09, Columbia [mp3,ogg,flac]
other Explosions in the Sky posts at Largehearted Boy
The Films: "Holiday" [mp3] from Oh, Scorpio
other Films posts at Largehearted Boy
Malcolm Middleton: "Carry Me" [mp3] from Waxing Gibbous (out August 11th)
other Malcolm Middleton posts at Largehearted Boy
Nebula: "The Dagger" [mp3] from Heavy Psych (out July 7th)
other Nebula posts at Largehearted Boy
Pale Air Singers: "Cubby, He Chopped Me Down" [mp3] from Pale Air Singers
other Pale Air Singers posts at Largehearted Boy
Patterson Hood: 2009-06-27, Athens [mp3,ogg,flac]
"All the Girls Love Alice (Elton John cover)" [mp3]
other Patterson Hood posts at Largehearted Boy
von Doom: "The Descender" [mp3] from The Descender
other von Doom posts at Largehearted Boy
Yim Yames: "Behind That Locked Door" [mp3]*
Free and legal mp3s of live performances at other websites:
Cass McCombs>: Daytrotter session [mp3]
other Cass McCombs posts at Largehearted Boy
Cotton Jones: Luxury Wafers sessions [mp3]
other Cotton Jones posts at Largehearted Boy
*registration required
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous free and legal mp3 daily downloads
2009 Bonnaroo downloads
2008 Lollapalooza downloads
other music festival downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and album streams from weekly CD releases)
weekly CD release lists
tags: music download indie mp3
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June 29, 2009
This Week's Interesting Music Releases (June 30th, 2009)
Wilco's Wilco (The Album) heads up a typically slow summer release week, with new discs by Moby (Wait for Me) and Bjork (Voltaic) also in stores tomorrow.
Other than the new Wilco album on vinyl, new Spoon EP and a couple of Television Personalities vinyl reissues (And Don't the Kids Just Love It and Mummy Your Not Watching Me), my music shopping list is pretty spare this week.
Relive the original Woodstock music festival with the 10-CD box set Various Artists: The Woodstock Experience.
What new music can you recommend this week? What's on your shopping list? Have I left any interesting releases off the list?
This week's interesting CD releases:
The Allman Brothers Band: Playlist: The Best of Allman Brothers
And Also the Trees: When the Rains Come
Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes (vinyl)
Billy Talent: Rusted from the Rain
Bjork: Voltaic (2-CD & 2-DVD edition) (CD & DVD edition)
The Black Crowes: Warpaint Live (dvd)
Buddy Guy: Playlist: The Very Best of Buddy Guy
Depeche Mode: Peace
Heart: Private Audition/Passionworks (reissue)
Indigo Girls: Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (vinyl)
Janis Joplin: Janis Joplin: The Woodstock Experience
Jefferson Airplane: Flight Box (3-CD box set)
Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience
Jimmie Rodgers: Blue Yodel: The Very Best of Jimmie Rodgers (vinyl)
Jonathan Coulton: Best. Concert. Ever.
Johnny Winter: Johnny Winter: The Woodstock Experience
Juan Maclean: The Future Will Come (vinyl)
Killswitch Engage: Killswitch Engage
Leslie Mendelson: Swan Feathers
Levon Helm: Electric Dirt (vinyl)
Lila Downs: The Very Best Of
Lillian Axe: Sad Day on Planet Earth
Los Lonely Boys: Playlist: The Very Best of Los Lonely Boys
Matt Duke: Acoustic Kingdom Underground EP
Meese: Broadcast
The Michael Schenker Group: Walk the Stage: The Official Bootleg Box Set
Moby: Wait For Me (vinyl)
Moxy Fruvous: Wood (reissue)
Pete Yorn: Back & Fourth (vinyl)
Rob Thomas: Cradlesong
Rob Thomas: Something To Be Tour - Live At Red Rocks (dvd)
Robin Guthrie: Angel Falls
Rod Stewart: Atlantic Crossing (reissue with bonus disc)
Rod Stewart: A Night on the Town (reissue with bonus disc)
Santana: Santana: The Woodstock Experience
Shad: Old Prince
Sly & The Family Stone: Playlist: The Very Best of Sly & the Family Stone
Sly & The Family Stone: Sly & The Family Stone: The Woodstock Experience
Spoon: Spoon
Tanya Tucker: My Turn
Television Personalities: And Don't the Kids Just Love It (vinyl reissue)
Television Personalities: Mummy Your Not Watching Me (vinyl reissue)
This Is Jim Jones (dvd)
UFO: Official Bootleg Box Set, 1975-1982 (6-CD box set)
Various Artists: Sick Music
Various Artists: The Woodstock Experience (Limited Edition Box Set)
Various Artists: World Is Shaking: Cubanismo from the Congo 1954-55
The Vibrators: Garage Punk (vinyl)
Wilco: Wilco (The Album) (2-LP vinyl with CD)
Wu-Tang Clan: Chamber Music
Wu-Tang Clan: Playlist: The Very Best of Wu-Tang Clan
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous CD & DVD release lists
Try It Before You Buy It (music from this week's CD releases)
tags: music cd list indie album releases
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This Week's Interesting DVD Releases (June 30th, 2009)
Television releases highlight my shopping list and rental queue additions this week. The first season of Parker Lewis Can't Lose, the fifth season of Entourage and the second season of Britain'sThe IT Crowd are all highly anticipated along with the fifth season of Stargate Atlantis.
Feature films out this week include the thriller 12 Rounds and the triptych Tokyo! with vignettes directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho.
The Blu-ray edition of Seven is tempting as well.
What can you recommend buying or adding to the Netflix queue from this week's DVD releases?
This week's interesting DVD releases:
12 Rounds
9 1/2 Weeks
Ah My Buddha Volume 3
Apollo 11: A Night to Remember
Barfly
The Beatles International
The Beggar's Opera
The Betrayed
The Black Crowes: Warpaint Live
Blade of the Phantom Master
Blue Murder: Set 4
Do the Right Thing (20th Anniversary Edition)
East of Eden Vol. 2
Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season
The Education of Charlie Banks
Entourage: The Complete Fifth Season
Entourage: The Complete Seasons 1-5
Eureka: Season 3.0
Everybody Dies
Extreme Trains: The Complete Season One
Flawless [Blu-ray]
Header
Heroic Age: The Complete Series, Part Two
Hide
The IT Crowd: The Complete Second Season
Jockeys
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
Kaidan
Lady Godiva Rides
Lady Ninja Kaeda
Lookin' to Get Out
Marquis de Sade's Prosperities of Vice
Monster X Strikes Back
Morrissey: The Solo Years
Muhammad Ali: In His Own Words
Nostradamus 2012
Number 10
Octane
One Piece: Season Two, First Voyage
Parker Lewis Can't Lose: The Complete First Season
Pedro
Princess Protection Program
Rip: A Remix Manifesto
Rob Thomas: Something To Be Tour - Live At Red Rocks
Ruby Blue
Samurai Champloo: The Complete Collection
Scout Camp
Scream
Sea Beast
Second Coming
Secret Diary of a Call Girl Season 2
Seven [Blu-ray]
Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Fifth Season
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li
The Swiss Family Robinson
Ted Nugent: Motor City Mayhem
They Call Me Bruce
This Is Jim Jones
Three Priests
Tokyo!
Trailer Park Boys: The Complete Series
Tunnel Rats
Two Lovers
Vermeer: Master of Light
White Sox Memories: The Greatest Moments In Chicago White Sox History
Wholphin: Issue 8
The Writers Of Fantasy
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous CD & DVD release lists
Soundtracked (directors and composers discuss their film's soundtrack)
tags: movies dvd list indie film
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Shorties (Todd Snider, Doctor Who, and more)
The A.V Club interviews singer-songwriter Todd Snider.
The BBC News magazine lovingly looks back on Doctor Who novelizations.
Faithful to the show they certainly were, but there were things the books - being books - could do better. After all, a typewriter can take you anywhere in the Universe, not just to a Home Counties quarry. Doomed minor characters were brought out and developed. Some books stayed close to the dialogue, with minimal description and were rather thin. Others were just that little bit more literary.
Yesterday's updates to the 2009 Bonnaroo music festival live show downloads page include lossless bittorrent downloads of the Bon Iver, Rober Earl Keen, moe., and Yeah Yeah Yeahs shows.
Gawker notes author Alice Hoffman's Twitter tirade against a book critic.
Alice Hoffman has a new novel out. Roberta Silman gave Hoffman's book a lukewarm review in the Boston Globe. Alice Hoffman then went insane on Twitter, even publishing Silman's phone number and encouraging her fans to call and attack her.
The Philadelphia Daily News points out the exhibit of Sun Ra art and artifacts.
"Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968," an exhibit on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art through Aug. 2, captures Ra's ideas in their developmental stages. Curated by journalist and jazz critic John Corbett, the show collects artifacts, memorabilia and artwork from Ra's years in Chicago and New York, before the move to what would be come his Arkestra's permanent home in Philadelphia.
NME interviews Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand.
3:AM interviews author Dennis Cooper.
3:AM: You’re described as the most dangerous writer in America, are you comfortable with being described like this?
DC: Oh, I understand why publishers and journalists pick up on that quote and use it for marketing purposes, but I think it’s kind of silly. I mean, the most dangerous writer in America would be some zealot on the political far right or some manipulative evangelist or someone like that. I’m just trying to get readers to confront and accept subjects and unusual literary forms that they tend to find disturbing and off-putting in a way that causes them to entertain the thinking and emotions behind violence and certain kinds of sex acts and things like that, and I guess I don’t see trying to do that as a dangerous act.
SF Signal offers a guide to international science fiction and fantasy literature.
Drowned in Sound is celebrating "Alt. Country Week."
Alimentum is a literary review "all about food."
The Guardian recaps this year's Guardian music festival.
musicOMH previews my favorite summer music festival, Latitude.
NPR's Books We Like recommends Percival Everett's new novel, I Am Not Sidney Poitier.
Enter the latest Largehearted Boy contest and win 75 CDs.
Follow me on Twitter for links that don't make the daily "Shorties" columns.
also at Largehearted Boy:
daily mp3 downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
tags: music books popculture indie news literature
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Daily Downloads (Petra Haden, Care Bears on Fire, and more)
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads:
The Bloody Beetroots: "Butter" [mp3] from Romborama (out August 25th)
The Bloody Beetroots: "Cornelius" [mp3] from Romborama (out August 25th)
other Bloody Beetroots posts at Largehearted Boy
Blue Roses: "I Am Leaving" [mp3] from Blue Roses (out July 21st)
other Blue Roses posts at Largehearted Boy
Care Bears on Fire: "Superteen" [mp3] from Get Over It! (out July 14th)
other Care Bears on Fire posts at Largehearted Boy
Dan Mangan: "Road Regrets" [mp3] from Nice, Nice, Very Nice (out August 11th)
other Dan Mangan posts at Largehearted Boy
Jets Overhead: "No Nations" [mp3] from No Nations
other Jets Overhead posts at Largehearted Boy
Marmoset: "Run Away, Terri" [mp3] from Tea Tornado (out August 4th)
other Marmoset posts at Largehearted Boy
Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada: "Trest Ratas" [mp3] from Coconut Rock
other Ocote Soul Sounds posts at Largehearted Boy
Petra Haden: "Let Your Love Flow ( cover)" [mp3]
other Petra Haden posts at Largehearted Boy
Free and legal mp3s of live performances at other websites:
Amazing Baby: WOXY Lounge Act session [mp3]
other Amazing Baby posts at Largehearted Boy
Cracker: 2009-06-25, New York [mp3,flac]
other Cracker posts at Largehearted Boy
Dead Confederate: LaundroMatinee session [mp3]
other Dead Confederate posts at Largehearted Boy
Motel Motel: Daytrotter session [mp3]
other Motel Motel posts at Largehearted Boy
Steve Wynn: 2009-06-25, New York [mp3,flac]
other Steve Wynn posts at Largehearted Boy
*registration required
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous free and legal mp3 daily downloads
2009 Bonnaroo downloads
2008 Lollapalooza downloads
other music festival downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and album streams from weekly CD releases)
weekly CD release lists
tags: music download indie mp3
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June 28, 2009
Shorties (Wilco, Lauren Conrad vs. Joseph Conrad, and more)
The Observer and the Scotsman review the new Wilco album Wilco (The Album).
Stream the album in its entirety at NPR.
The Daily Beast offers a quiz comparing the prose of two great writers, Joseph Conrad and Lauren Conrad.
Yesterday's updates to the 2009 Bonnaroo music festival live show downloads page include lossless bittorrent downloads of the Animal Collective, Lucinda Williams, Cage the Elephant, Allen Toussaint and Band of Horses shows.
The Boston Globe examines the trend of popular literature replacing the classics on students' summer reading lists.
The Associated Press profiles author Kaye Gibbons and her often troubled life.
The Detroit Free Press and The Grand Rapids Press preview next weekend's Rothbury music festival.
The Observer and the Scotsman review the new Wilco album Wilco (The Album).
Stream the album in its entirety at NPR.
Graphic Novel Reporter lists the hottest graphic novels for kids this summer.
In the Guardian, Haruki Murakami names George Orwell as one of the influences behind his new novel, 1Q84.
IGN ranks Michael Jackson't top 5 albums.
Enter the latest Largehearted Boy contest and win 75 CDs.
Follow me on Twitter for links that don't make the daily "Shorties" columns.
also at Largehearted Boy:
daily mp3 downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
tags: music books popculture indie news literature
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Daily Downloads (Patterson Hood, fIREHOSE, and more)
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads:
Cowboy Junkies: 2009-06-19, York [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Powderfinger" [mp3]
Cowboy Junkies: 2009-06-18, Richmond [mp3,ogg,flac]
other Cowboy Junkies posts at Largehearted Boy
fIREHOSE: 1992-02-12, San Pedro [mp3,ogg,flac]
"In My Mind" [mp3]
other fIREHOSE posts at Largehearted Boy
The Gourds: 2009-06-21, Austin [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Lower 48" [mp3]
The Gourds: 2009-04-16, Driftwood [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Tex Mex Mile" [mp3]
The Gourds: 2003 tour live compilation [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Homeland Security" [mp3]
The Gourds: 2002 tour live compilation [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Locomotive Breath (Jethro Tull cover)" [mp3]
other Gourds posts at Largehearted Boy
Hamell on Trial: 2008-12-27, Stroudsburg [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Global Tattoo" [mp3]
other Hamell on Trial posts at Largehearted Boy
Patterson Hood: 2009-06-23, Brooklyn [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Murdering Oscar" [mp3]
other Patterson Hood posts at Largehearted Boy
Free and legal mp3s of live performances at other websites:
Yourself and the Air: Daytrotter session [mp3]
other Yourself and the Air posts at Largehearted Boy
*registration required
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous free and legal mp3 daily downloads
2009 Bonnaroo downloads
2008 Lollapalooza downloads
other music festival downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and album streams from weekly CD releases)
weekly CD release lists
tags: music download indie mp3
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June 27, 2009
Contest - Largehearted Housecleaning x3 - Win 75 CDs
The first two housecleaning contests drew an incredible amount of entries, and my wife is happy that our collection of giveaway books is almost depleted.
Unfortunately, my pile of CDs that I do not plan to add to our music library grows every day, so this week's contest winner will receive 75 of these CDs, from a variety of music genres.
To enter the contest, leave a comment in this post with the name of your favorite musical artist. If you win, I will try and include at least one disc by that artist, if possible.
The winner will receive an assortment of 75 CDs chosen at random.
The winner will be chosen randomly at midnight CT Friday evening (July 3rd).
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous and ongoing contests at Largehearted Boy
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
guest book reviews
musician/author interviews
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2009 Edition)
tags: books music giveaway contest
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Shorties (Glastonbury, Ben Kweller, and more)
The Guardian's books blog lists the best books to take to the Glastonbury music festival, while Drowned in Sound points out online and TV coverage of the event.
LiveDaily interviews singer-songwriter Ben Kweller.
Yesterday's updates to the 2009 Bonnaroo music festival live show downloads page include lossless bittorrent downloads of the Bela Fleck, Phish, and Snoop Dogg shows.
The Guardian lists 10 of the best vegetables in literature.
The Phoenix's On the Download blog interviews Stephen Davis, ghost writer of Michael Jackson's autobiography.
WXPN is streaming yesterday's performance by Singer-songwriter Diane Birch.
io9 lists science fiction books that launched their own genres.
Foreign Policy lists 8 books you should read during the Iranian election crisis.
At NPR Music, Oliver Wang lists the overshadowed siblings of soul music.
Follow me on Twitter for links that don't make the daily "Shorties" columns.
also at Largehearted Boy:
daily mp3 downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from this week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists
tags: music books popculture indie news literature
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Daily Downloads (Animal Collective, Guster, and more)
Several of today's free and legal mp3 downloads are also featured on the 2009 Bonnaroo downloads page.
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads:
Alejandro Escovedo: 2009-06-13, Bonnaroo [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Sensitive Boys" [mp3]
other Alejandro Escovedo posts at Largehearted Boy
Animal Collective: 2009-06-12, Bonnaroo [mp3,ogg,flac]
other Animal Collective posts at Largehearted Boy
Bloodkin: 2009-05-15, Athens [mp3,ogg,flac]
"No Expectations" [mp3]
other Bloodkin posts at Largehearted Boy
Drive-By Truckers: 2008-09-26, Austin [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young cover)" [mp3]
other Drive-By Truckers posts at Largehearted Boy
Gomez: 2009-03-26, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Tijuana Lady" [mp3]
other Gomez posts at Largehearted Boy
Grace Potter: 2009-06-25, Albany [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Kitchen" [mp3]
Grace Potter: 2009-06-20, Millville [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Toothbrush" [mp3]
Grace Potter: 2009-06-12, Bonnaroo [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Medicine" [mp3]
other Grace Potter posts at Largehearted Boy
Guster: 2009-06-20, Atlanta [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Jonah" [mp3]
other Guster posts at Largehearted Boy
Patterson Hood: 2009-06-18, Nashville [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Grandaddy" [mp3]
other Patterson Hood posts at Largehearted Boy
Free and legal mp3s of live performances at other websites:
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band: Daytrotter session [mp3]
other Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band posts at Largehearted Boy
*registration required
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous free and legal mp3 daily downloads
2009 Bonnaroo downloads
2008 Lollapalooza downloads
other music festival downloads
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and album streams from weekly CD releases)
weekly CD release lists
tags: music download indie mp3
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