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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #86: Max Allan Collins

In April, the Mystery Writers of America named Max Allan Collins a Grand Master, the organization’s peer-voted lifetime achievement award. Collins has had a prolific and often eclectic career. The…

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Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Paul Simon | Rumpus Music

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Songs of Our Lives: Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”

There’s you and him, and you and me. You seem to want each of us all to yourself, and that’s fine; you’re the one we both care about.

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Album of the Week: True to Self by Bryson Tiller

Bryson Tiller made himself known in 2015, when, hailing from the streets of Louisville, KY, the then-twenty-two-year-old singer, rapper, and songwriter posted his debut single “Don’t” on his Soundcloud page,…

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Introducing Vanishing Ink!

Drawing inspiration from the punk rock zine culture of their youth and a shared love of radio, The Rumpus’s own Allyson McCabe is teaming up with Kevin Wortis (Girlie Action…

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Album of the Week: She-Devils by the She-Devils

Coming from Montreal’s notable music scene, the She-Devils, Audrey Ann Boucher and Kyle Jukka, approach their music-making more as visual artists than songwriters. Boucher draws and paints cartoon-influenced images, including…

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Victim Story, a Mix CD

All the cruelty of the past seasons washed away with the new layer of snow. I thought your streak was over. I thought we could be friends.

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Elegy with Records on the Doorstep

The old music still filled pits in him like sawdust and wood glue do a nail hole. The songs didn’t say anything new over the years, but they provided home when he missed it.

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Album of the Week: Powerplant by Girlpool

Powerplant is the sophomore album of Los Angeles duo Girlpool, now out via Anti-Records. Starting out with an intimate, bedroom pop made up of vocals over guitar and bass, Harmony Tividad…

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Sound & Vision: Bob Egan

Allyson McCabe talks with Bob Egan, a man widely known as one of New York’s foremost “pop culture detectives,” about why and how he does the work he does.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Straw House

“It’s not healthy, how you live. People aren’t meant to sleep all day. We need the sun. We’re meant to live in the sun.”

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Swinging Modern Sounds #80: I Just Don’t Want to Wait Around Anymore

Mulcahy’s Possum is, like the animal titularly referred to, a sly and imaginative affair...

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Album of the Week: Harriet Brown’s Contact

Hailing from the Bay Area and now based in Los Angeles, Harriet Brown is the self-proclaimed champion of “romantic funk,” a realm where Prince is king and Sade is queen. His…

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