Music
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Part Shovel, Part Man, All Awesome
After learning about the KGB orchestrated birth of the theremin and the beginning of electronic music as we now know it, I began to fear that all of humanity’s greatest moments of musical ingenuity may already be behind us. At…
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Left as Rain is Right as Rain
Maybe you’re like me: someone who loves music but is at a loss at keeping up with the frenzied pace of all this awesome new music being hurled at you. If so, do what I do and defer to those…
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Sex, Drugs, and Orchestra: The Importance of Metal Health and the New Iron Maiden Documentary
The Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn is papered with horror movie posters and painted with a fine layer of filmy grit. A mutilated Chuckie doll straddles a Jaegermeister spout from which bartenders in leather corsets pour shots for guys sporting…
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Internal: The Yellow Dress Are on Tour
Assistant Morning Coffee Editor Dan Weiss and his band The Yellow Dress (who often perform at Monthly Rumpus events) are on tour! Tonight, starting at 8pm, they will be tearing it up at Good Neighbor Pizzeria in Portland, OR . Don’t…
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Harry Patch
Radiohead has released a new song titled “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” and is donating the proceeds to the British Legion (download it for £1.00). The song is “a tribute to the memory of Harry Patch, the last surviving World…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jill Sobule
Her songs are unique. They tell stories about human beings, real and imagined, which allow us to step back from the issue, be it personal or social, and relate to it as we would a friend.
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The Rise of the Cover
Some people think cover songs are for people who don’t like music; I happen to see them as heart-warming love letters from adoring fans, and at their greatest, revealing other aspects the song didn’t even know it had. Stephen Elliott…
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Eclectic Method: Pushing the Frontier of Video Remix
It’s hard to know where to start talking about a club act as innovative as Eclectic Method. They’re video DJs, a rare breed of performance artist, who have taken the tools of music DJs — turntables, scratching, sampling, live looping,…
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Maureen Miller Takes On Jay-Z
Have you heard Jay-Z’s “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”? It’s a damn good track (though some take issue with Jay for swinging at certain artists while leaving other auto-tuners, read his friends, pretty much unscathed). Fair or not, all you really…
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When I Was Young
“And he came to interview me and suddenly I felt like he was trying to corner me. ‘Oh, what’s it like being a terrorist,’ and ‘You’re just doing it for shock value so people will buy your records.’ “And then…
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An Imperfect Masterpiece: The Rumpus Interview with Members of Midwest Dilemma
Midwest Dilemma’s Timelines and Tragedies combines resonant storytelling with genre-bending indie-folk music and a plethora of eclectic instruments.
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Meet John Craigie
Chances are you don’t know who John Craigie is. But rest assured, John Craigie wants to know you.