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Swinging Modern Sounds #69: Meaning Yes

  • Rick Moody
  • January 18, 2016
When in need of comfort, it’s always worth trying close reading.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #68: A Way of Life

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  • September 29, 2015
The thing about Scott Tuma is: the immense pathos of the recordings... Almost no one, frankly, is allowed to sound this sad and continue to have a musical career.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #67: The Franchise Restaurants of Song

  • Rick Moody
  • September 14, 2015
Musician Owen Ashworth on his new album, Nephew in the Wild, literary influences, self-expression in songwriting, and how becoming a father has changed his work.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #66: The Library of Babel

  • Rick Moody
  • June 30, 2015
I want to propose a fine recent example of the gesamtkuntsler, the total artist, in Paul de Jong, the cellist, composer, collagist, archivist, and former member of the band The Books.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #65: Tragedy Plus Time

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  • May 4, 2015
Jesse Malin is a lifer in a business that rarely features lifers anymore.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #64: Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!

  • Rick Moody
  • March 30, 2015
Many of you will not want to believe that “Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!” by the Californian punk band the Urinals, is the greatest song ever written, but that is simply because there is some kind of vise or blood-occluding mechanism attached to the thinking and feeling part of your limbic region.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #63: It’s Supposed to Be Bad

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  • March 6, 2015
Rick Moody emails with Scott Timberg, author of the new book Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, about Bob Dylan's new Sinatra covers album, the need for cultural gatekeepers, and the "slippery sub genre" of bad-on-purpose art.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #62: Stillness as Metaphor

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  • February 2, 2015
I am after a music that renders life as it is, and which invites in the intermittent pulsations of life.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #61: Songs for the Alliterative at Heart

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  • January 5, 2015
Michael Hearst has come a long way from the guy who played plastic wind instruments on Seventh Avenue, to an admirably creative and original adulthood.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #60: On Mentorship

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  • December 15, 2014
In an empirically-preoccupied world, mentorship appears to be unscientific, impossible to quantify, and perhaps even sentimental.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #59: Not a Folk Singer

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  • December 1, 2014
There is a lot to learn from Vashti Bunyan, therefore, about how to live a self-designed life, and how to be unapologetic and decisive about the habit of songwriting.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #58: Crowdsourcing

  • Rick Moody
  • October 13, 2014
Music-obsessive activity, in general, appears to be about music. You could, on the surface, mistake it for being about music. But in fact what it is about is memory and love.
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