Music
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The Rumpus Interview with Sóley Stefánsdóttir
Icelandic singer-songwriter Sóley Stefánsdóttir has released her first full-length record, We Sink (Morr). This comes after Stefánsdóttir’s debut EP, Theater Island.
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Habeas Whitney
The one that got me was a torso shot. There were a bunch of them published even before she died, frantic paparazzi pictures of Whitney Houston leaving last night’s party.
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #11: Conversation Hearts
Conversation Hearts Two Words. Infinite Meanings. True Love. Missed Connections. 50% Divorce. First Date. Happy Nights. Sad Days. Star Crossed. Wedded Bliss. Bad Breakup. Holding Hands. Making Out. Great Sex. Poly Love.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chelsea Wolfe
California native Chelsea Wolfe has returned, after her first album, The Grime and the Glow, to the aural world with Ἀποκάλυψις, pronounced “Apokalypsis.”
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R.I.P. Etta James
Etta James has passed away at the age of 73. The New Yorker reflects on her life and songs. The Awl pays tribute with this playlist.
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The Rumpus Interview with James McMurtry
I call James McMurtry late one morning when I’m visiting Austin, Texas. By now, I’ve seen him play three times, in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and California, and I’m always struck by the way audiences in different parts of the country identify…
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David Lynch Interview
Salon converses with David Lynch about his new album Crazy Clown Time. The director discusses transcendental meditation, his attraction to sound, and finding humor in the disturbing. “When you get something that’s thrilling, if it’s working on a couple of…
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Record Related #2: Wild Flag, Wild Flag, Wild Flag
Wild Flag, S/T (Merge) / live at The Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 10/18/11 Eleanor Friedberger, best known as half of The Fiery Furnaces, sings the ultra-catchy, ’70s-damaged “My Mistakes.”
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #4: Reading Didion
Great writers wound us. Their words cut into our bodies; their ideas become notions of ourselves. Cue Joan Didion. She stitches sentences through your brain. You emerge exhausted and charged — agreeing, disagreeing and questioning. Reading Didion invites a…
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Best Music for Writing
At The Village Voice, Jami Attenburg reveals 2011’s top ten pieces of music to listen to while writing, “as supplied by the authors of recent books,” so they must be effective. The list features some of our friends, including Rumpus…
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Albums of Our Lives: Joni Mitchell’s Blue
Bliss, melancholy—Blue is both at once, just as the holiday season is for me.
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The Rumpus Interview with John Wesley Harding
Well as a singer-songwriter you kind of have a right to hijack bands. I’ve never really had my own band for too long.