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Robot Horses Waging War on Angels: A Profile of Chris Eaton

There are bodies, and there are words. The bodies shift sides and see their components replaced; they look in mirrors and see themselves made horrific, the mechanical overtaking the organic,…

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The Theremin: Everything You Didn’t Even Know You Needed to Know

What do Led Zepplin’s “Whole Lotta Love,” Coheed and Cambria’s legendary Neverender concert, Ed Wood (the film, not the director-turned-pulp-novelist), and nearly every alien horror movie have in common? Memorable…

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An Oral History of Thao Nguyen

It comes down to mental health. I think I have been nuts for the past year and a half or two years because I didn't have anything rooting me anywhere.

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Writing, Joni Mitchell, LA and Other Things

Your poem sounds like a Joni Mitchell song I’ve never heard before.

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Harry Allen on the Death of VIBE

Harry Allen, Hip Hop activist and writer for The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, has a touching and insightful piece about the death of VIBE magazine on his…

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Sunset Rubdown

It seems entirely unfair to label Sunset Rubdown a side project. The band, the brainchild of Wolf Parade co-founder Spencer Krug, began as a series of lo-fi recordings Krug produced…

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Extreme Storytelling and Literary Mayhem

Mike Edison has been promoting the paperback edition of his book I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses,…

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The Rumpus Readers Interview Dee Snider

We passed the opportunity on to our readers—and we ended up with an interview that was much more interesting than we had expected.

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Jeff Buckley and His Band, An Oral History

Jeff Buckley: Having Tim Buckley as my father gave me the parts needed to play music. Even if I went and became a lawyer and someone asked me to sing…

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This Month in Music: A Roundup of Shit You May Have Missed

This Month in Music is exactly what it sounds like, only by this month I really mean a subjective span of recent time, and by music, I mean music I…

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The Sound of Passion

Yet another reason to park your child in front of classical music appreciation videos: she’ll be first responder for your next baby! The Sound of Passion.

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Annie Bacon’s Folk Opera

Back in Santa Cruz, I marveled at Ukulele Dick and Oliver Brown, maestros of ukulele songsmithing and quirk. But sometimes a song is not just a song. Sometimes it’s an…

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