LargeHeartedBoy — Read new short fiction by Don DeLillo at the New Yorker. Stream Blind Willie Johnson covers by Tom Waits and Lucinda Williams. Stream a new Melvins song. Guernica interviewed author John D'Agata. Aquarium Drunkard shared a Lunar New Year Chinese... more info

Perez Hilton — Life's tough when you're an octopus lookin' for a date. Kong is a 70-pound male octopus living at the Seattle Aquarium and, as is tradition every Valentine's Day at the conservation center, the eight-tentacled creature was all set to get hooked up wi... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Rumpus interviewed author Angela Flournoy. Stereogum reconsidered the Pretty in Pink soundtrack 30 years after its release. Bret Easton Ellis listed his favorite books at the New York Times. Aquarium Drunkard shared an oral history of Belly's sop... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Why The Mountains Are Black collects “Primeval Greek Village Music” from 1907 – 1960 for Third Man Records. 28 tracks are culled from the 78 rpm collection of Christopher King, a life-long collector and expert set of ears based in the small com... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — It was a cold Christmas night when Inuit songwriter Willie Thrasher first found his musical path. He’d just finished a set with his band the Cordells, drumming at a Christmas dance, performing its normal setlist of Beatles songs and other rock & ro... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — “Most of my albums are a simple collection of songs that have nothing to do with each other except that they were written around the same time and, perhaps, have some recurring themes,” songwriter Cass McCombs told Relix in 2013. His new collecti... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Gloria Steinem talked to All Things Considered about her new memoir My Life on the Road. Aquarium Drunkard interviewed singer-songwriter Neko Case. 35 year-end "best books of 2015" lists were added to the Largehearted Boy master aggregation yesterday... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — “It’s exciting and kind of spooky!” Neko Case writes in the liner notes of Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule the new eight-album boxset collecting her entire discography, from her 1997 debut The Virginian to 2013’s The Worse Things Get, the Harder... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — I found my copy of Scott Fagan’s lp South Atlantic Blues at a used record shop about 12 years ago. It looked too good to be true, sitting in front of The Nightfly (note: Donald’s surname is Fagen with an ‘e’). The back jacket noted a shared p... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — For the last six months or so I’ve been religiously attending DJ Clyde’s Sunday Night Roll at Skateland in Northridge. True roller skating culture was not something I grew up with, so for me, seeing this place for the first time was mind-blowing.... more info