Music
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“Hey, wat pomp! Did I say that right?”
Mother Jones has a two part interview (part 1, part 2) with everyone’s favorite South African hip-hop crew, Die Antwoord.
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Wes on Wes
Our good friend John Wesley Harding interviews our good friend Wesley Stace over at LargeHeartedBoy. (Pssst! They’re both the same person!)
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The Rumpus Interview With The Bots
The Bots are a band of two brothers, Mikaiah Lei, 17, and Anaiah Lei, 13, hailing from Glendale, California. Mikaiah sings and plays guitar while his younger brother Anaiah holds it down on the drums.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/11-10/17
This week in San Francisco, Twitter IRL, SOMArts asks How Do You Value Art?, more art at Hotel Biron, and even more art (and readings!) at Sub-Mission’s Skate This Art. Monday 10/11: Celebrate your inner nerd at the Commonwealth Club’s…
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Dueling Dispatches from the Gathering of the Juggalos
It was inevitable, given the viral spread of the Gathering ’09’s infomercial last year, that some enterprising and well-vaccinated media types would show up and see it for themselves. I wish I could have gone.
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Hornby’s Lonely Avenue
“The author Nick Hornby often writes about music. One of his most famous novels, High Fidelity, is about a guy who works in a record store. But Hornby never actually made an album until he teamed up with singer-songwriter Ben…
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Dirty Silverstein
Well would you look at that, yet another reason to love Shel: “Shel Silverstein’s Secret, Raunchy Recording Sessions” (a link worth clicking if only to hear his song “Fuck ‘Em”).
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Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life #3
How I Became a Music Critic: At age 19, I was assigned to review Bob Dylan in concert, despite the fact that I had very little sense of who Bob Dylan was. I was doing a summer internship at my…
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Is Social Media Replacing New York as the Center of Cultural Production?
Is New York still the center of cultural activity in the modern world? Colleen Dilenschneider isn’t so sure. On her blog, Dilenschneider writes about five ways in which social media is actually replacing NYC as the hub of creative development.…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/20-9/26
This week, The Porchlight Reading Series, highbrow porn at the Indie Erotic Film Festival, Barbie gets a makeover at the Altered Barbie Poetry Reading, and fetishists celebrate at the 27th Annual Folsom Street Fair. Monday 9/20: San Francisco is nothing…
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Led Burroughs
William S. Burroughs’ 1975 article on Zeppelin, “Rock Magic: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, And a search for the elusive Stairway to Heaven,” is available online. Why are you still here? (via LargeHeartedBoy)
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Two Musicians. One Rumpus.
Last night in San Francisco John Craigie rocked the Monthly Rumpus. You can read our interview with Craigie here. Isaac “Shovelman” Frankle also moved The Make-Out Room, find our writeup of him here.