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Swinging Modern Sounds #97: It’s a Wonder We Can Even Feed Ourselves

  • Rick Moody
  • August 1, 2019
What follows, then, is a sort of first-thought-best-thought discussion of MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #86: Transcendentalism!

  • Rick Moody
  • May 24, 2018
The point is not to control the medium, the point is to interact with the medium, to find out what’s natural to it and what’s native to it and work with that, respond to that.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #77: People Give Me Things, Part One

  • Rick Moody
  • January 12, 2017
[T]he thing about receiving music from other people is this: there is always some grace associated with the transaction.
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Haroula Rose | Rumpus Music
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Sound Takes: Here the Blue River & Rumpus Video Premiere

  • Elizabeth Weinberg
  • June 2, 2016
She takes a simple story and turns it into something the listener can hold in the palm of their hand.
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Matt Jones - The Deep Enders | Albums of Our Lives
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Albums of Our Lives: Matt Jones’s The Deep Enders

  • Rachel Button
  • June 4, 2015
Matt Jones writes haunting songs. February songs. Songs that get under my skin and seep into my short stories. Songs that remind me of the rust belt and the south...
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