Posts Tagged: Esme Blegvad

Wanted/Needed/Loved: Thurston Moore’s 12-String Guitar

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Even though I’ve only had my 12-string for two years, this is my favorite guitar.

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The Rumpus Top 30 of 2019

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We share our thirty most-read pieces of 2019!

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Snail Mail’s Beloved Books

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Wherever I go out on tour, I always have a book with me, and another for when I’m finished.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Shana Cleveland’s Grandma’s Hats

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It’s such a powerful symbol of who she was.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Kathleen Hanna’s Girl Style, Then and Now

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I was entranced, wondering who made it and why.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Jill Sobule’s Favorite Spy Cars

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I wasn’t into girl stuff, but I loved James Bond!

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Viv Albertine’s Emotional Investigation

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I’ve worked through the pain, and made something useful and creative out of it.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ira Kaplan’s Favorite Pit Stops

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To pull into a rest area and get a bag of KFC or McDonald’s or whatever is kind of soul crushing, or at least it is for us.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Sadie Dupuis’s Preloved Farfisa Organ

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[I]t’s taken me back to those memories of recording at my dad’s, and the stuff that took him back into his past, and ultimately into my future.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Andrew Savage’s Punk Possibilities

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I kept listening over and over again, and eventually I realized this album was challenging my idea of what punk is.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Zola Jesus’s Natural World

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About a year ago, I ended up returning to the land where I grew up and building a house here.

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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Franklin James Fisher’s “Rhoda”

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I have to work to get the sounds, but then the magic kicks in.

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