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Swinging Modern Sounds #98: Against Jazz

  • Rick Moody
  • September 12, 2019
Nate Wooley, the reason for this piece, is a essential force in the contemporary music.
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The Mania of Queer Desire: In Praise of Fever Ray’s Plunge

  • Logan February
  • August 29, 2019
I remember driving a bird mad once.
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The Lost Art of the Mixtape in Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

  • Brent Katz
  • August 8, 2019
Lawlor uses the act of making a mixtape to show us their character’s mind at work.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #97: It’s a Wonder We Can Even Feed Ourselves

  • Rick Moody
  • August 1, 2019
What follows, then, is a sort of first-thought-best-thought discussion of MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Snail Mail’s Beloved Books

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • July 18, 2019
Wherever I go out on tour, I always have a book with me, and another for when I’m finished.
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When Michel Legrand Dies

  • Carrie Chappell
  • July 11, 2019
I sing it to feel the darkness of it. I demand access.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #96: Voices of Displacement

  • Rick Moody
  • June 27, 2019
Thank God music has wings and it can fly wherever, even countries we can’t reach.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Palehound’s Special Skateboard

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • June 20, 2019
In a lot of ways, I kind of gave up on my body.
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An East African Girl and Her White Troubadours

  • Zebib K. A.
  • June 6, 2019
I was a lonely, dreamy, occasionally silly girl.
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Spotlight: “I Met Prince Once”

  • Tatiana Ryckman
  • June 4, 2019
While struggling with a severe bout of depression I found myself inexplicably drawn to Prince’s music.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #95: Omnidirectional

  • Rick Moody
  • May 30, 2019
If you love this album as much as I think you’re going to, make sure to tell a friend.
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Wanted/Need/Loved: Moby’s 30 Rock

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • May 16, 2019
It really was art imitating life imitating art imitating life.
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