Music
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Tune of the Day
Artist: Leon Huff Song: “Tight Money” Today’s Tune of the Day inspired by Elizabeth Isadora Gold’s “Soul Pas de Deux.”
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Soul Pas de Deux
The music always gets me, right where I’m sure Bach meant it to, somewhere between my stomach and my heart.
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Notable New York, This Week 9/21-9/27
As the New York Bureau Chief, I thought it might be a good idea to round up some notable literary and cultural events going on around New York that I think readers of The Rumpus would be interested in. So,…
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An Oral History of Bay Area Punk
I grew up in Denver and moved out to the Bay Area when I was eighteen, partially because I’d heard about this magical “Gilman” place that seemed to go against everything I was raised to believe in. Of course, once…
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Dig Bunny Dig
Musician and author Nick Cave talks about his new book, The Death of Bunny Munro, “a sordid tale about a sex-crazed, drug-addled, adulterous traveling salesman and the 9-year-old son with whose care he suddenly finds himself charged.” Sounds about right…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: Raekwon ft. Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, and Method Man Song: “House of Flying Daggers”
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Bicycle Byrne
David Byrne talks with USA Today about his latest book, Bicycle Diaries, which is described as “a political and philosophical travelogue tied together by Byrne’s bike rides in cities, from Niagara Falls to San Francisco, London to Manila.” The multi-talented…
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Honest Art: A One Question Interview with Peter Squires
“I am, for better or worse, a bit of an over-sharer who tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, so for me songs come more naturally (much to the chagrin of my exes).”