Music
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Lights in Your Throat
The 2009 music release schedule is winding down, so people have started making their arbitrary top-whatever lists. While such rankings might be more potent some years from now, when we…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/16-11/22
This week in San Francisco: holiday spirit at the Union Square Ice Rink, distilled spirits at the SF Indy Spirit Expo, and spirited performances at Point Break Live! Monday 11/16:…
Notable New York, This Week 11/16-11/22
This week in New York the Rumpus and Tin House present MORE THAN YOU EXPECTED with Rick Moody, Starlee Kine and Eugene Mirman followed by a meteor shower, Martin Amis…
Swinging Modern Sounds #17: Higher Love
Recently, I was given an assignment by Rumpus film critic and friend Ryan Boudinot to write about one of those pieces of music that is so execrable, so thoroughly gangrenous,…
Thomas Bartlett
Pianist and New Yorker Thomas Bartlett was raised in rural Vermont by two devoted intellectuals. For the most part self-educated, save a few failed attempts at public high school and…