Music
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The Rumpus Interview with Roarke Menzies
Musician and producer Roarke Menzies talks about his debut album, Shapes, and about his inspirations for making music.
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This Week in Posivibes: One More (Great) List
Aquarium Drunkard put out their list of 2015 favorites and like many things they do, it’s pretty comprehensive, respectable, and a great way to catch great music that you’ve missed. Included in the list are Jessica Pratt, Yo La Tengo, Destroyer,…
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Return of Columbia House
The music subscription service is making a comeback, Stereogum reports, thanks to a bail-out from a former Lehman Brothers executive. You might remember Columbia House from junk mail offering twelve CDs for just a penny—tempting teens into joining a membership most notable…
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Diamonds & Rust: Let’s Revel in This Messy Splendor
Refusing to be tragic, and eventually, within the deep lost, the deepest I’ve known, comes rebirth.
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Erykah Badu on Cyberspace
Erykah Badu met up with okayplayer.’s program The Questions and the result is a meditation on what participation means in the digital age, among many other things. Watch the interview after the jump.
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This Week in Posivibes: Édith Piaf
This past Saturday marked Édith Piaf’s centenary. To honor the seminal French artist’s memory, the Guardian published a piece on her life, career, and music as they helped to define French music in the twentieth century. Read the full piece here and watch…
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Season of Lists
Now that the year’s end is approaching and Grammy nominations are official, everyone’s rolling out their “best of” lists. Pitchfork is one of the more obsessive cataloguers, weighing in with a best of albums, songs, music videos, lyrics… you get the picture.…
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The “Blurred Lines” of Copyright
The question of copyright infringement in Pharell Williams’s and Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines” has been raised again, following an appeal that the pair filed this Monday against the March decision that ruled against the use of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give…
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Killer Mike Chats with Bernie Sanders
The rapper has made clear his admiration for the presidential candidate before, but the recent hour-long conversation between Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders is more than a token of mutual respect—the discussion stands on its own right as a compelling…
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Song of the Day: “Creep”
An important part of Prince’s artistic image has relied upon mystery—the mystery of his genius is comprised of equal parts sexuality and technical prowess. But there is another component to it, and that is Prince’s ironclad policy against the free…
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Woman-Size: Female Image-Making and PJ Harvey
A raw video of a diminutive woman howling “I’m the king of the world!” and nearly eating the camera was a welcome assault on late-night TV. It’s why I stayed up on a school night.
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Camille Paglia on Feminism and the #GirlSquad
Camille Paglia, a feminist writer and theorist, wrote a damning critique of Taylor Swift’s tendency to curate her group of “friends” and bring them onstage as testimony to her good taste, or dominance, or what have you—namely, the phenomenon that has…