Sound Takes: Our Own Dystopian Future
Cult Favorite For Mad Men Only (Reservoir Sound) Cult Favorite‘s album For Mad Men Only, a trip-hop collaboration between Brooklyn rapper Elucid and New York noise-experimentalist A.M. Breakups, is simply…
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Making Art, Making Gnomes
“No, I am not real. I am like a dude who adjunct teaches at the local college and then, in his free time, makes little gnomes. My music is a hobby. I am making fucking gnomes.”
SOUND TAKES: IMPLICIT INFLUENCE
Snowblink Inner Classics (Arts & Crafts Records) Sometimes ascribing a name to something (a painting, a song, a poem) becomes easier after creation. One may not realized the extent to…
The Rumpus Interview with Kurt Vile
We talk to indie-rock musician Kurt Vile about his recording process, life on the road, and the all-time best Dead Milkmen song.
Deep Throat #5: On Being and Unbeing a Singer
There is nothing I have experienced that is so physical, nothing that resonates in the bones and meat of a person like it does to make music with other people at that sort of level.
The Rumpus Interview with Karl Briedrick of Speck Mountain
Lyrically, it’s about longing for something to change, longing for something to happen within the context of a relationship where it hasn’t felt like anything’s been happening for a long time.
Swinging Modern Sounds #45: The Distribution Problem, Part One
Rick Moody talks with Frank Zappa's widow, Gail, about her new idea to license distribution rights of an unreleased project to Zappa fans.
The Rumpus Interview with Missy Mazzoli
We talked to composer-performer Missy Mazzoli about the sometimes invisible world of new classical music, her relation to it, and what she’s doing to help to redefine what it means to be a composer in the 21st century.
Every Noise at Once
All-powerful algorithms strike again! This time, they bring visualization of relations between all genres of music from Chinese Traditional to Dirty South Rap to Turbo Folk. Each genre includes a…
Call This Playlist Ishmael
Kick your summer off right with a different kind of beach read: Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. (Okay, it’s more of a sea read than a beach read.) To put you in the…
Songs of Our Lives: “Angel from Montgomery”
If you chase a song from the tips of its branches down its broad trunk, you’ll eventually hit cold soil and muscular roots. Good songs lead somewhere. They are present…
The Rumpus Interview with Dawn Oberg
Dawn Oberg’s writing covers a range simultaneously comedic and biting, sad and sardonic. Her music finds a new way to twist the knife in, or maybe deliver an earnest compliment,…