Music
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“I’m a Big Roger Miller Fan Myself.”
There’s an interview with Rudy Wurlitzer over at Chuck Palahniuk’s site; we recently reviewed his first novel, Nog. Although the introduction features some questionable vocab (Wurlitzer is said to be “imminently” readable, which I guess means he’s always about to be…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: The Yellow Dress Song: “The Hills Have Eyes” Catch The Yellow Dress tonight, along with Starlee Kine of This American Life, air guitar genius Dan Crane, and so much more at the Monthly Rumpus!
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Swinging Modern Sounds #14: Nine Thousand Words On The Size Queens
The following is a record review in dialogue form conducted between this columnist and Michael Snediker (with whom I corresponded about Antony and the Johnsons a couple months back), the poet and literary critic. We were shooting for ten thousand…
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The Rumpus Interview with MC Lars
I was taken with the lyrics, the energy, and pure joy of the performance.
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Nick Hornby on the Music Blogs
“It took me longer than it should have done to work out that the internet is one giant independent record shop — thousands and thousands of cute little independent record shops, anyway — and they don’t actually charge you for the…
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Lester Bangs on John Lennon
Jacket Copy has scrounged up an old op-ed written by the rock critic Lester Bangs, published six days after John Lennon was killed. “Look: I don’t think I’m insensitive or a curmudgeon. In 1965 John Lennon was one of the…