Music
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An Album Of Banned Music
“And if I would have known when I was a child what I was about to get myself into, you know, I really do wonder if I would have pursued…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/27-1/2
This week in San Francisco: Whether this is your adopted home or you’ve lived here all your life, re-discover the city as you begin another year of living here. Let’s…
The Rumpus Interview with Luc Sante
Luc Sante is perhaps best known for his sprawling, meticulously researched nonfiction book Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, about subterranean life among the dregs in 19th…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/20-12/26
This week in San Francisco, eat for a cause with Food Not Bombs, open mics at Amnesia and Kaleidoscope, Post-Impressionists at the De Young, and volunteer work gets fun at…
Five Mini-Interviews from The Rumpus
We at The Rumpus get bored with reading the same old interviews with the same old people. So, every now and again we like to publish “mini-interviews,” our readers talking with…
Blood, Snow, Glory: Mountain Goats Meet Sir Arne’s Treasure
I basically hurt myself with excitement when I read that the San Francisco Film Society was presenting Mauritz Stiller’s 1919 silent film classic Sir Arne’s Treasure with live musical…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/13-12/19
This week in San Francisco, it’s Ladies Night at The Rumpus! Also, Dave Eggers plays ping pong, art for the blind, sitting and lying in protest of the Sit/Lie law,…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/6-12/12
This week in San Francisco, Granta at City Lights, literature meets food at Feast of Words and to-the-death battle at Literary Death Match, and Believer Magazine hangs out at Electric…
Swinging Modern Sounds #27: All Things Must Pass
On 11/29, a band in Brooklyn called The Universal Thump staged a fortieth anniversary rehabilitation of George Harrison’s monumental All Things Must Pass album.
The End of Music Piracy: Oh Shit It’s the Cops II
First, Laura Miller declared the end of NaNoWriMo. Now, Wired declares the end of music piracy. Citing the phasing out of DRM, the improved sound quality of iTunes downloads, the…
Magnetic Books
Claudia Gonson, of The Magnetic Fields fame, walks the NYRB through her life, book by book: “My Reading Life.” (via TheMillions)