A Chat with Zap Mama
Marie Daulne’s music reflects the story of her life. Her father, a Belgium colonialist, was killed by child rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shortly after impregnating her…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/15-3/21
This week, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival is in full swing, catch Paul Madonna at Sketch Tuesday, assuage the pain of your own coyote-ugly experiences at Bawdy Storytelling’s…
Notable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth…
“I’d much rather be 49 than 20.”
“The reason I’m still around through all this is persistence. And the fact that I’ve always gone for myself, in that I’ve never hooked onto a trend, it was just…
Resident Bohemians: Gerald Busby, The Tender Hooligan
Gerald Busby’s music for ‘3 Women’ is so perfect I don’t know how to talk about it. – Robert Altman Several years ago, a friend recommended I rent Three Women,…
Noise Pop: The Ghost of a Saber Toothed Tiger
The son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was due to take the stage any minute, and the venue was still half empty. The bar remained fairly quiet until well…
How to Make It
“You basically built a band with very thin musical talent to begin with.” Morning Coffee editor Dan Weiss, who is also the front man for The Yellow Dress, talks with…