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The Rumpus Interview with Balkan Beat Box
This album breaks some traditional world music barriers.
Musical Effects
At The Chronicle, Mark Edmundson, English professor at University of Virginia, explains the emotional importance of pop music, as it “suggests, by its easy, pleasurable repetitions,” that our “static inside” makes…
The Rumpus Interview with Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YaRdS
Merrill Garbus’s music is hard to define or readily summarize.
The Rumpus Interview with Jeremy Thal of Briars of North America
I've never been much for scenes… and am not sure what scene I'm in now.
“Big Little Wolfs” (Rick Moody Remix)
The band Aeroplane Pageant and novelist, musician and Rumpus contributor Rick Moody have collaborated on a new version of a song from the band’s recent album, Float Above the…
Forever Changeless: The Beach Boys, The Smile Sessions
In June of 1967, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band came out. Brian Wilson is said to have heard it and wept. Wilson, the Beach Boys’ main songwriter, producer, erstwhile…
Albums of Our Lives: Tori Amos’s Strange Little Girls and Little Earthquakes
I was fourteen when Strange Little Girls was released and I was fifteen when my parents decided to separate.
Stories We Tell
Molly Boyle writes about how murder ballads helped in her efforts to find the “sublimity of survival” after an attempted rape. “The stories we tell ourselves happen often to be…
The Rumpus Conversation Between Jon DeRosa and Karolina Waclawiak
Jon DeRosa is best known for leading the drone-pop collective Aarktica. Late last year DeRosa kicked off a new solo pop project with the release of the Anchored EP.
The Rumpus Interview with Geoffrey O’Connor
When you are on the cusp of hating a song, you simply decide to commit to what you have and celebrate. It’s like marriage really.
The Dreams of a Shrinking Nation
I’ve been thinking a lot about the decline of the Japanese birth rate lately. It’s a peculiar obsession, admittedly, but one that should worry Japan lovers everywhere. And while it…