Music
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Notable New York, This Week 2/14-2/20
This week in New York spend your Valentine’s Day at Six-Word Story Slam on Love & Heartbreak or hearing dark and twisted love stories at Housing Works; Michael Cunningham, Mary Gaitskill, Zadie Smith, and others get together to talk retreats…
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New Sobule
Rumpus pal Jill Sobule and John Doe (of X fame) have released an EP on the interwebs: A Day at the Pass. You can download a free song, as well as purchase the album, here. And don’t forget to check…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/7-2/13
This week in San Francisco, get in bed with Quiet Lightning, Microscopic Giant at Space Gallery, Laughter Against The Machine, Andrew Foster Altschul’s book launch, Literary Death Match, Stephen Elliott reads at BANG OUT X: Tough Love, and the Anger…
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Music Man Murray
Friend of the Rumpus Richard Parks is Kickstarting a documentary short about “Music Man” Murray Gershenz, LA’s premier rare-vinyl dealer. He’s put his entire collection up for sale at $500,000 — much of it is literally priceless, but he originally…
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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 abides at the 8th Annual Lebowski Party. Monday 1/31: As…
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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 cover for 1960s Satan is Real, the Louvin’s were both…
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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 of burlesque with a side of clown as Dottie Lux…
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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.”
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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, Literary Death Match is giving away Shya Scanlon’s Forecast, musicians…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lia Ices
It was a long journey to come to my own songs. The influence comes from so many places.
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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 about multiply on this site already. (See, e.g., my columns…
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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 did reliably no matter the address was watch horror movies…