Music
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A Museum for Ian Curtis and Joy Division
Once the Joy Division frontman’s former home went up for sale earlier this year, fans began rallying to purchase the building and turn it into a museum. The campaign fell hugely short of its goal, raising only about 1 percent of…
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New from Ariel Pink for Heaven Knows What
Ariel Pink has released a new song, titled “I Need a Minute,” an eerily calming circular kind of track that does an uncannily great job of capturing the way it feels to view the world through a series of isolating…
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Albums of Our Lives: Talking Heads’s Talking Heads: 77
There isn’t a weak song on Talking Heads: 77. It’s funny, it’s lyrical, it rocks, and the songs stick in your head.
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Song of the Day: “Bored In The USA”
Father John Misty is the stage moniker of Joshua Tillman, the erstwhile drummer for indie sensations, Fleet Foxes. The laugh tracks on Father John Misty’s slyly catchy ballad, “Bored In The USA,” begin to appear about halfway through the song.…
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This Week in Posivibes
Still Single published this gleaming review of GG King’s Unending Darkness, and if you haven’t heard of the Atlanta-based punk project yet, it’s worth a read. If the review piques your interest like it did ours, the album is up…
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Get Cosmic for Sun Ra’s Birthday
It would have been Sun Ra’s 101st birthday last Friday, and to celebrate, Harte Recordings has released a 40th anniversary edition of the artist’s otherworldly cosmic trip, Space is the Place. We’ve done our share of commenting on the proliferation of…
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Albums of Our Lives: Björk’s Debut
Music is the ultimate consolation for reality’s letdowns (like being thirteen and still firmly living in the realm of childhood). I would listen to “Venus as a Boy” on repeat in my bedroom, curtains drawn, and imagine Allan’s face, his…
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FYF 2015 Looks Like It Might Be Worth the Sunburn You’ll Get
The lineup for this year’s FYF Fest was released earlier this month, and the more we look at it, the more we have to admit it might be worth bearing the heat of an August weekend in Los Angeles. The…
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Song of the Day: “John My Beloved”
After the heartbreakingly gentle song, “John My Beloved,” ends, Sufjan Stevens takes a single audible breath. The breath, like many of Stevens’s choices on his revelatory new album, Carrie & Lowell, beckons the listener in by virtue of its strangeness. The…
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13th Floor Elevators Reunited for First Show in 47 Years
The 13th Floor Elevators are one of those groups that seem to perfectly articulate their genre; a psychedelic band that disbanded in 1969 but whose records have a place in the core catalog of any kid trying to get to know…
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Prince Returns to the Internet
Since recording “Baltimore,” written in response to the deaths of Mike Brown and Freddie Gray, Prince has returned to the Internet. We at The Rumpus were captivated by Prince’s last Twitter experiment, only to be disappointed when he shut the account…
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Countdown to Letterman’s Final Show
The last few weeks have brought some truly incredible acts to the Late Show as David Letterman prepares to retire. Hollywood royalty, a former president, and, soon, Bill Murray—the iconic late night host and comedian is leaving his post with…