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Griffin Bur

Griffin Bur is a political science and economics student at UNC. He DJs for WXYC Chapel Hill and, internet appearance to the contrary, is a nice, gangly kid from Kansas City, MO.
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    Rumpus Sound Takes:
    Passionate Impasse

    The Men Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones) If we were to come up with a taxonomy of ways people praise music, a lot of the categories would surely focus on some extramusical rupture the record caused.

  • Griffin Bur

    Rumpus Sound Takes: Music for Libraries

    Ben Von Wildenhaus Great Melodies From Around (Riot Bear Recording Co.) In Retromania, Simon Reynolds quotes Brian Eno from a 1991 Artforum article: “Curatorship is arguably the big new job of our times. … In an age saturated with new…

  • Griffin Bur

    Rumpus Sound Takes: Moving Backward, Forward

    Steve Reich WTC 9/11 (Nonesuch) “It’s pretty much Different Trains but for 9/11.”