Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/31-2/6
This week in San Francisco, Airplane! takes over the Castro Theater, Feast of Words: Sensory Feast, a free Valentine’s Day Etsy Labs Craft Bar, Mirah & Thao, and The Dude…
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R.I.P. Charlie Louvin
Charlie Louvin, the remaining member of the country music duo the Louvin Brothers has died today at the age of 83. While occasionally best remembered for the painfully sincere album…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/24-1/30
This week in San Francisco: Clown Burlesque, stories about food, art shows, magazine readings, and Cyclops Wearing Flip Flops. Monday 1/24: This month at Cat’s Pajamas, get your regular dose…
Republic of Metal
“Botswana Heavy Metal Generation” is a beautiful photo essay by Johan Persson that explores “one of the most vibrant and fast growing heavy metal scenes in Africa.”
Notable New York, This Week 1/24-1/30
This week in New York Reginald Dwayne Betts at louderARTS, the Saul Bellow Slam, Edwidge Danticat on Haiti Noir with actors Anika Noni Rose and Stephen Lang at Symphony Space,…
The Rumpus Interview with Lia Ices
It was a long journey to come to my own songs. The influence comes from so many places.
Swinging Modern Sounds #28: Can You Hear Me Crying?
It’s hard not to think a lot about Tucson lately, a place where I have spent a lot of time in the last five years, and which I have written…
Unpacking Rick Moody
“I watched a lot of monster movies as a kid. In fact, in the period after my parents divorced, which was in 1970 or so, the one thing that I…
“Band Booking”
Jason Diamond over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn has kicked off a new series, Band Booking, where musicians talk books. The first installment features “composer, violinist, keyboardist and songwriter” Owen Pallett…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/10-1/16
This week in San Francisco: Finally muster the courage to hit on that one cute chick/dude at this month’s Monthly Rumpus, decorate your pad like it’s 1982 and you just…
Notable New York, This Week 1/10-1/16
This Week in New York the Rumpus Women take Brooklyn; storytelling from Sex Workers Literati, the Moth, and Sideshow Goshko; inspired words from Patricia Smith and Willie Perdomo; Douglass Rushkoff…