Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise
For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
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...moreThe clash of opinions about music is music itself.
...moreWhat a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?
...moreLiterary events taking place virtually this week!
...moreI’m not writing confessionals; I’m trying to write hooks.
...moreMusic columnist Rick Moody writes on ten albums that influenced him through his life.
...moreZappa, on the other hand, was never sentimental.
...moreI’m just being an artist. I’m just being creative.
...moreOur next Letter in the Mail is from author Rick Moody!
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
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...moreWhat follows, then, is a sort of first-thought-best-thought discussion of MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS.
...moreThank God music has wings and it can fly wherever, even countries we can’t reach.
...moreThis is a deep dive, therefore, into the site of brilliant, uncompromising contemporary work.
...moreI see both subjectivity and objectivity as constructions.
...moreYou will now find some version of the list below. It is imperfect.
...morePart of what makes Belly important and lasting, that is, is that they really think and feel a lot.
...moreThe Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2018!
...moreIf you like Owen’s haikus, and even if you don’t, you’ll really love his album.
...moreBecause Petty was so prolific and so popular, the intense craftsmanship of his body of work has been hiding in plain sight.
...moreThe interview, like the project Iso Omena, is both funny and revealing.
...more[T]hese are albums to distract you from the horrors taking place daily in the theater of American political life.
...moreThe 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.
...moreAllyson 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.
...moreIt 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.
...morePerhaps 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.
...moreThere really is not a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t stop at some moment and think about George Harrison.
...more…yet she did what she did, and in the process made the most successful album of her career.
...moreAs 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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