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Janis Joplin

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  • Allyson McCabe
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Sound & Vision: Ray Padgett

  • Allyson McCabe
  • February 22, 2018
Allyson McCabe talks with Ray Padgett about his new book, Cover Me, and the blog that inspired it, giving us a fascinating window into the craft and business of making music.
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To Look for America: A Road Trip, a Soundtrack

  • Leesa Cross-Smith
  • November 7, 2017
One thing I was taught about travel—because my father is a black man born in Alabama in 1950—was that there are safe places for black people to go and places that aren't as safe.
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I, Me, We, and the GOP

  • Brian Bouldrey
  • July 24, 2017
It’s not coincidental, I think, that most of the secular and sacred saints we venerate now went charging against the grain of the Municipal We.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: April, 1968

  • Paul Justison
  • October 7, 2016
Used to see lots of psychedelic princes and princesses on Haight Street. Not many these days. But here were hundreds of the turned on and tuned in, dressed like birds and peacocks in heat.
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The Rumpus Interview with Megan Kruse

  • Carter Sickels
  • August 21, 2015
Author Megan Kruse talks about her debut novel, Call Me Home, queer characters in rural places, sibling relationships, and how the music of Lucinda Williams inspires her.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Queen of Decay

  • Gila Lyons
  • August 1, 2015
I wish it had been: Amy was a brilliant and tortured artist. Lets explore her brilliance. Let’s watch her perform.
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The Best Music is Made of Subtraction

  • Bruce Snider
  • May 16, 2009
Like the Jazz, Blues, and R&B music Brown references, these poems are born of heartbreak, explorations of love and violence, connections and disconnections, the vast complications of body and heart.
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