Music
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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 Works. Monday 12/6: Celebrate issue 113 of Granta magazine at…
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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.
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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 beefed up music library, and even a plea to individual…
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Magnetic Books
Claudia Gonson, of The Magnetic Fields fame, walks the NYRB through her life, book by book: “My Reading Life.” (via TheMillions)
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/29-12/5
This week in San Francisco, booze for a cause at Drink Good Do Good, come hang out with me at this month’s Quiet Lightning, two words: Cinema Orgy, Booksmith’s first Literary Clown Foolery, Babylon Salon, and fund raise San Francisco…
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Artists: Barter for Your Health Care
I am one of the lucky ones: a full-time desk jockey/part-time writer with health insurance. I recently finished up some physical therapy sessions for my right arm; the bill says that for two sessions a week, the actual cost of…
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“Ted Wilson Is Everywhere”
Our very own columnist Ted Wilson was mentioned on “All Things Considered” during an interview with the Ryan Montbleau Band. Check it out!
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/22-11/28
This week, art porn at 111 Minna, a list of the best Mission bars to spend Thanksgiving at, do good this Black Friday at Creative Housing Liberation’s Housing Harvest, and a Murder Mystery Dinner! Monday 11/22: Attend an extra-festive Cat’s…
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Autonomika, Autonomika!
Today Maddie Oatman interviews Brooklyn-based musician Aaron Wolfe, who records beautiful cover songs, writes about how the songs relate to his life, and then posts both the cover and the story to his Tumblr account, Autonomika, Autonomika! We highly recommend…
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Portrait of the Music Blogger as a Young Man: The Rumpus Interview with Aaron Wolfe
How a Brooklyn musician uses Tumblr to cover a song a night (roughly) and write accompanying life stories.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/8-11/14
This week in San Francisco, The November Monthly Rumpus, art openings at City Hall and White Walls, indie circus goodness and a musical orgy(!) at the Bohemian Carnival, and kinetic visual sculptures meet improvised electroacoustic shamanic noise jazz (don’t worry,…
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King of the Rats
Paranoid—From the greek: Paranoos, “distracted” from “para” irregular and “noos,” mind. There are rats in my garage. Boot-sized ones that run straight up the walls and then tiptoe along the roof beams.