Music
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The Rumpus Interview with Bill Callahan
Bill Callahan’s Apocalypse is a sparse album of epic proportions, a celebration of American music, specifically what he describes as “that rich period in the ’70s when all the styles were converging in a loving way. ”Notoriously soft-spoken, I’d interviewed…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #29: The Museum of Broken Things
Rick Moody interviews Moby about his obsession with drum machines.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/11-4/17
This week in San Francisco, join The Rumpus in making a ruckus (tonight!), Mortified is back! and FREE ICE CREAM. This is gonna be a good week.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/4-4/11
This week in San Francisco, two opportunities to pee your pants in public at Piano Fight’s Monday Night Foreplays and stand-up with Rory Scovel at the Punchline, Red Hots Burlesque puts on a show featuring an 6-foot MC in a…
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The Rumpus Interview with Melora Creager
As the lead singer of the cello-based band Rasputina, Melora Creager was an intimidating interview subject because I thought she might be a witch.
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How to Get a Record Deal
Musician Peter Squires (who we interviewed in 2009) recently joined forces with Anne Marple to take on the RPM challenge. The challenge, which “is a little like National Novel Writing Month” but with music, is to write and record a…
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Trans-Love Energies and the MC5: The Blazing Revolution According to John Sinclair
“Poetry never sleeps.” -John Sinclair The best music and art erupts from immense suffering and revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/21-3/27
This week in San Francisco, Lit&Lunch, a book club meeting with Intersection for the Arts, radio magazine, The [Un]observed, launches at OHIO Studio, and the Portuguese Artists Colony celebrates its first birthday at Fivepoints Arthouse. Monday 3/21: Ever wondered about…
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The Rest of the Story: The Rumpus Interview with Chris Tarry
I met Chris Tarry on the Thursday of AWP, on the mobbed second floor of a popular blues bar in Adams Morgan, after a friend and I had been gonged out of a literary talent show by Pam Houston.
