Music
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“That’s where my muse puts her foot down.”
An oldie but a goodie: Nick Cave on why he won’t appear in a Gap commercial. (via @LettersOfNote)
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Carrie Brownstein Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Well this is exciting! Carrie Brownstein’s memoir is making its way into the mediascape! She’s rocked us in Sleater-Kinney, The Spells and Wild Flag, broadcast hyperarticulations on her beloved Monitor Mix music culture blog, and wowed us with her comedic…
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The Rumpus Interview with Geoffrey O’Connor
When you are on the cusp of hating a song, you simply decide to commit to what you have and celebrate. It’s like marriage really.
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The Dreams of a Shrinking Nation
I’ve been thinking a lot about the decline of the Japanese birth rate lately. It’s a peculiar obsession, admittedly, but one that should worry Japan lovers everywhere. And while it wasn’t on my mind as I hurried up Wilshire Boulevard…
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Albums of Our Lives: Tori Amos’ Boys for Pele
Boys for Pele came out around the time I lost my virginity. This was a very sensitive time in my life, because I knowingly had bad sex with a more experienced partner, and my failure to give her any pleasure resulted in…
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The Rumpus Interview with Adam Dorn, a.k.a. Mocean Worker
With his latest release, Candygram for Mowo, DJ/Bassist/Electronic Artist/Producer/Remixer Adam Dorn, a.k.a Mocean Worker, has whipped up an addictive, luscious confection: a feel-good album that’s a throwback to the dance music of 30s era swing and big band jazz.
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Cross-Media Cutural Exchange
In Largehearted Boy’s “Cross-Media Cultural Exchange Program” series, author Emma Rathbone interviews musician Adam Brock. The two discuss gracing a podium as an author versus taking the stage as a musician, writing lyrics versus fiction, and top secret current projects.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Band-aids and Stitches
Various Artists Luz de Vida (Fort Lowell Records) 1. A Little Context Tragedy can define a city, coloring not only the way it is perceived by outsiders but, inevitably, the way the city’s people see themselves.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Baritone Depth
Sean Rowe Magic (Collar City) It might be hard to get past the first song on Sean Rowe’s Magic it if you have a real aversion to guitar-based songs written in what is commonly referred to as “adult contemporary” style:…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rafael Casal
Rafael Casal is known in the Bay Area hip hop community from his three appearances on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and his music video Bay Area Slang, where he rattles off 100 slang terms invented in the Bay Area.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sóley Stefánsdóttir
Icelandic singer-songwriter Sóley Stefánsdóttir has released her first full-length record, We Sink (Morr). This comes after Stefánsdóttir’s debut EP, Theater Island.
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #12: Hungover After A Bad Date
All good dates are alike; all bad dates are bad in their own way.