Music
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The Rumpus Interview with Jerry DeCicca of The Black Swans
“I wish we were more popular so I could play in theaters and make albums with Daniel Lanois, but we’re lucky we get this much.”
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Tracking the Trumpet Zebra and Other Musical Stories
Illustrations by Květa Pacovská for Jak Se Hraje Na Dvere a Jine Muzikantske Pohadky (roughly: How to Play on Doors and Other Musical Stories) by Ilja Hurnik (Prague, 1973):
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/28-7/1
This week in San Francisco, the history of pisco punch, put on your flapper finery for the Gatsby Ball, how to choose the perfect vibrator (or vibrators?), sexy new art at Femina Potens Gallery, and hear some free jazz at…
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Notable New York, This Week 6/28 – 7/4
This week Keith Gessen and HFM present “Diary of a Very Bad Year,” Justin Taylor goes guerrilla at the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series, Ed Park, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben Greenman at a “Word for Word” lunchtime event, Paula Abdul…
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How To Go Over The Top
“One is drawn to Camp when one realizes that “sincerity” is not enough. Sincerity can be simple philistinism, intellectual narrowness.” From Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp,” excerpted over at GIANT.
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Rick and Jolie Have a Chat
“Music is like acupuncture–the exact same treatment, the exact same songs, even the exact same recording will move people, even the same people at different times, in very different ways.” Jolie Holland and Rick Moody are having a conversation about…
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Renaissance Amateur
“He has painted over 2,500 works and is a published novelist and poet. Billy Childish is creativity personified.” Billy Childish has the punk teenage heart of a fifty-year old. He spurns professionalism by embracing amateurism. The choice to remain amateur gives…