The Rumpus Interview with Craig Finn
Craig Finn of the Hold Steady sits down to talk about his solo album, song craft, and his unfinished novel.
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Posts by: Scott Pinkmountain
Make/Work Episode 16: Cheryl Leonard
In Episode 16 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with composer, performer, and instrument builder Cheryl E. Leonard.
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Make/Work Episode 15: Nate Wooley
In Episode 15 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with trumpet player/composer Nate Wooley.
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Make/Work Episode 14: Dan Nelson and Lexa Walsh
In Episode 14 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with creative couple Dan Nelson and Lexa Walsh about the challenges and benefits of building a life with someone who’s also engaged in a creative pursuit.
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Make/Work Episode 13: Vanesa Zendejas
In Episode 13 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with artist Vanesa Zendejas. Recently, Zendejas has been dealing primarily with Modernist sculpture and her habit to decorate, perfect, and balance, which she says may or may not be related to being a woman.
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Make/Work Episode 12: Diane Cook
In Episode 12 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with writer Diane Cook. Cook was a producer at This American Life for years until she quit to pursue her own fiction writing.
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Make/Work Episode 11: Aaron Siegel
In Episode 11 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with composer/percussionist Aaron Siegel.
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The Rumpus Interview with Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus—founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and main songwriter of Pavement, one of the most critically and publicly adored bands in indie rock history—talks about his recent years with the Jicks, writing riffs, and not dwelling on the past.
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Make/Work Episode 10: John Colpitts
In Episode 10 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with drummer/composer John Colpitts, aka Kid Millions.
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Make/Work Episode 9: Jon Bernson and Jennifer Welch
Every creative laborer has a story about negotiating the relationship between their creative work and their paycheck.
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Make/Work Episode 7: Nate Query
Every creative laborer has a story about negotiating the relationship between their creative work and their paycheck. In Episode 7 of the podcast Scott Pinkmountain talks with Nate Query, bass player for The Decemberists and Black Prairie,
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Make/Work Episode 6: LuLing Osofsky
Every creative laborer has a different story to tell about how they negotiate their relationship between their creative work and their paycheck.
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Make/Work Episode 5: Emily Chenoweth and Jon Raymond
Episode 5 of Make/Work is the first of a sub-series where host Scott Pinkmountain interviews couples in which both partners are artists, addressing some of the unique issues that may arise in those relationships.
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Make/Work Episode 4: Jacopo Andreini
In Episode 4 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with Italian musician Jacopo Andreini.
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Make/Work Episode 3: Katie Bachler
In Episode 3 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with artist/educator Katie Bachler. Bachler is based in Southern California and her work is centered on our connections to place and to each other. She recently created a Map of Home for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and is currently working on building the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles. […]
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Make/Work Episode 2: Julien Nitzberg
Make/Work is a new Rumpus podcast hosted by Scott Pinkmountain. In Episode 2, Scott talks with writer/director/documentarian Julien Nitzberg. Nitzberg is most well-known for the documentary, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, and his musical, The Beastly Bombing, which won Musical of the Year from the LA Weekly Theater Awards in 2007. Listen to Episode 2 (and subscribe […]
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Make/Work: A New Rumpus Podcast
We’re excited to announce Make/Work, a new Rumpus podcast hosted by Scott Pinkmountain.
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“A Secret of the Heart on the Sleeve:” Jason Molina, 1973 – 2013
Now I’m in that rootless void of grieving the loss of someone I never really knew.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jesse Sykes
The first thing you notice about Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter is Sykes’s voice. It’s a stunning blend of contradictions, cutting and vulnerable, breathy and scratchy, enigmatic and bare.
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Merrill Garbus’s music is hard to define or readily summarize.
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Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born in 1974) came up in the fertile Olympia scene of the late ’90s. She was part of the K Records renaissance along with bands like the Microphones, the Blow and Old Time Relijun – all highly distinct, idiosyncratic groups with Calvin Johnson’s influence perhaps manifesting in the form of a […]
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It Gets You Through: The Rumpus Interview with Edward P. Jones
I think that if the art is not made then the world will go on, but once the art is created, it sort of connects you with just about everybody else who’s around.
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