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ONEBEAT FINALE THIS WEEKEND IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

OneBeat is an international cultural exchange that celebrates the transformative power of the arts through the creation of original, inventive music, and people-to-people diplomacy. The program consists of a two-week…

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SONGS OF OUR LIVES: THE CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE’S “LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER”

These songs became the soundtrack to my primordial memories not because I liked them, not because my parents necessarily liked them, but simply because one of my parents had turned on the radio

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The Rumpus Interview with Jesse Michaels

Jesse Michaels, former member of the punk bands Operation Ivy, Big Rig, and Common Rider, chats about his first novel, the thin line between fact and fiction, and how to turn off the voices in your head that scream "I'm nuts!" and "I'm shit!"

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Albums of Our Lives: Dan Zanes’ Rocket Ship Beach

Our music collection was unassailable until I became pregnant with my first daughter.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #48: Trying Not to Stare at the Sun

Rick Moody talks to novelist and musician Wesley Stace about his career-defining, game-changing new album Self-Titled.

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Diamonds and Rust: Summer Music Fests, Small Luxuries, and the Open Road

Those rare flashes of vivid scenes burned in my memory, which create the mythos for my five-day adventure journeying to Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2013.

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Nick Cave Monday #52: The Bad Seeds

In our last installment of Nick Cave Monday, it is time to pay tribute to the music mafia who are The Bad Seeds. As you would expect, The Bad Seeds…

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Albums of Our Lives: Linda Ronstadt’s Heart Like a Wheel

The cover was a black and white close-up of a woman, her hair windswept, her name scrawled above her in a font usually reserved for truck stops: Linda Ronstadt. I’d…

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Nick Cave Monday #51: “Your Funeral, My Trial”

I loved you babe, but I had to kill you. Nick once said that he kills people in his songs so he doesn’t have to kill them in real life.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #47: A Further Miscellany

This column collects a bunch of albums (and, in one case, a book by a writer/musician) that I have loved a great deal in the last six months, as well as exactly one album that I think is not worth the hype.

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Nick Cave Monday #50: “As I Sat Sadly By Her Side”

Earth is a bleak planet and the majority of humanity is selfish, each following the compulsion of their id. All you need to do is look out the window to…

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