Music
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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, and they ask themselves whether they can still feel, still…
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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 hairstyles aside, they all incorporate the granddaddy of all electronic…
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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 blog Media Assassin. Allen, who was a freelance writer for…
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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 and recorded by his lonesome and which then morphed into…
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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, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in…
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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 something, I’d have the parts to sing. But that’s it.…
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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 think you should care about.
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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 extended, operatic adventure, more like an urban folk ballad, played…