Posts Tagged: rick moody

Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise

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For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.

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Swinging Modern Sounds: Observations on the Occasion of a 100th Column

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The clash of opinions about music is music itself.

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Desire Makes Storytellers of Us All: Anthropica by David Hollander

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What a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?

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Notable Online: 9/6–9/12

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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Swinging Modern Sounds #103: Song Turned Blue

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I’m not writing confessionals; I’m trying to write hooks.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #102: Ten Influential Albums

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Music columnist Rick Moody writes on ten albums that influenced him through his life.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #101: A Really Big Band

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Zappa, on the other hand, was never sentimental.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #99: One of These Days It’s Gonna Set You Free

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I’m just being an artist. I’m just being creative.

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Notable San Francisco: 8/21–8/27

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Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!

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Notable NYC: 8/17–8/23

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Literary events in and around NYC this week!

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Notable NYC: 8/10–8/16

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Literary events in and around NYC this week!

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Swinging Modern Sounds #97: It’s a Wonder We Can Even Feed Ourselves

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What follows, then, is a sort of first-thought-best-thought discussion of MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #96: Voices of Displacement

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Thank God music has wings and it can fly wherever, even countries we can’t reach.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #94: I Think I Might

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This is a deep dive, therefore, into the site of brilliant, uncompromising contemporary work.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #93: Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy

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I see both subjectivity and objectivity as constructions.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection

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You will now find some version of the list below. It is imperfect.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #91: In Four Equal Parts

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Part of what makes Belly important and lasting, that is, is that they really think and feel a lot.

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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2018

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The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2018!

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Swinging Modern Sounds #89: In Praise of Tom Petty

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Because Petty was so prolific and so popular, the intense craftsmanship of his body of work has been hiding in plain sight.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #87: The Low and Dishonest Years

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[T]hese are albums to distract you from the horrors taking place daily in the theater of American political life.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #86: Transcendentalism!

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The point is not to control the medium, the point is to interact with the medium, to find out what’s natural to it and what’s native to it and work with that, respond to that.

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Sound & Vision: Michael Hearst

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Allyson McCabe talks with Michael Hearst, a founding member of One Ring Zero, about how he got his start in music and writing, and what he’s been working on recently.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #85: The Introduction of the Pitch

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It seems like it’s the point of this piece to draw attention to the fact that these instruments are wounded; it shouldn’t be something that tries to hide it.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #84: Music for Spaceships

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Perhaps space is an inevitable resting place for music of this kind, because time is completely different when conceived of in the vastness of space, and not only because of relativity.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #83: On George

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There really is not a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t stop at some moment and think about George Harrison.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #82: Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark: A Symposium

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…yet she did what she did, and in the process made the most successful album of her career.

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What to Read When You Need to Understand Corrupt Families

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As we wait for the latest Trump crisis-slash-scandal to shake out, here is a list of great books about terrible families.

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