Music
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Rumpus Sound Takes: In the Lap of Victory
Touring on the reissue, and building on the success of Kaputt, Daniel Bejar has the chance to give Destroyer’s Rubies the victory lap it deserves. Each song is anthemic, and the audience knows every word, taking particular joy in repeating…
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The Rumpus Interview with Chad Stokes of Dispatch
These guys gave up the dream of every fledgling college band. And yet, still, more than a decade later — they are arguably bigger than they would’ve been had they stayed together.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Ries
Rachel Ries is a singer/songwriter from South Dakota with a homespun style, hand-sewing fabric sleeves for limited edition EPs and selling homemade jam at shows. Her music is an exquisite blend of folk, blues, and jazz, inspired by the sounds…
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Sister
It is as if a great house has fallen―sunk into the mire which seethes around the ancestral manor, amid an unrecognizable, Martian landscape. The narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” has no name, no…
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Reservoir Sound Presents: ALEA IACTA EST
Released yesterday, ALEA IACTA EST, or “The Die Has Been Cast” is a new collection of music – envisioned as a “roadmap of styles” – from Reservoir Sound. You can stream and download the album here.
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What’s behind the Music
In his article “Forgetting the Roots: Does it Matter Who Makes Folk Music?” Taylor Coe explores the importance of history for folk musicians and how their creation stories can influence their effect on listeners. Some prefer a little more Strictly Bluegrass…
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Nick Cave Monday #2: “From Her To Eternity”
“From Her To Eternity” is one of Nick’s sexiest songs. It was the title track on the first album from The Bad Seeds and really defined what was going to come with this new project from Nick and the guys.…
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American Protest Music Today
Who can resist an alliterative and engaging title like “Pussy Riot, Paul Ryan, and Protest Music in 2012 America?” Corey Beasley riffs on the contradictions of protest music in the current American pop music scene, or lack thereof despite a political climate…
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Nick Cave Monday: “Stagger Lee”
Welcome to Nick Cave Monday, a new blog where The Rumpus lets me gush about the greatest musician in the world.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #38: Dinner at Martha’s House
If you did not come of age as a listener to the popular song between 1975 and 1979, you cannot entirely understand the revolution that took place among women.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: After the Moonlight the Morning Can Be Too Bright
Jakob Olausson’s Morning & Sunrise makes me wish I were writing about the album while on a plane, descending through clouds at dusk. A lucky wish, because that’s exactly what I’m doing.