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Auto-Tune the News #8 (ft. T-Pain)
That’s right, featuring T-Pain. (Don’t forget to check out The Rumpus interview with The Gregory Brothers)
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The Best Rumpus Video Interruptions According to Julie Greicius
Back in the day, back when The Rumpus was still pre-launch, curled up in the warmth of its beta gestation, oh, friends, there were video interruptions. And they were good.
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Is Indie Still Alive?
What’s hipper than indie culture? Discussing whether or not indie culture still exists, of course. In his essay for The Millions, “T.V. Party Tonight!,” Patrick Brown wonders about the reoccurring dichotomy between mainstream and alternative. In contrast to publishing consultant…
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Giving Up the Ghost: Carey Young
“On the whole Young’s work deals with issues of corporate culture and the artist’s place in it, but the spaces they were cast in no longer seemed to exist culturally.”
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Morning Coffee
Keetra Dean Dixon’s objects of co-dependency. Know your audience: monkeys respond to music made with them in mind. (via Metafilter.) And on a similar note, looking to the sexual habits of gorillas to explain human monogamy. Confirmed: we are ALL…
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Paywalls Keep Us Out, Them In
Melissa’s post earlier today about newspapers building paywalls and charging much more for online access to their content than for print (or combo) subscriptions, evidently in order to eke out the life of their print products, reminded me of a…
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With Those Super Sweet Coifs, How Could It Not Be
…that Cotton Top Tamarins are Metallica fans? Thanks to one Professor Charles Snowdon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the world finally has some answers on a vexing issue of our time! While the rest of us were content to…
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Cave: This Is Not an Album Review
Psychedelic Rock and the Continuing Rebirth/Death Spiral of New Orleans
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Online Publications Charge for the Words, Not for the Paper
Offering free content at readers’ fingertips, many print publications’ websites have become their own worst enemies. In order to prevent stealing revenue and readership from themselves, some of these organizations have chosen to charge for access to online content and…
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Tune of the Day
Artist: Terra Naomi Song: “Patron Saint of Strippers” (off Terra’s new album, Go Quietly)