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The Rumpus Interview with Karl Briedrick of Speck Mountain

  • Katy Henriksen
  • June 17, 2013
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.
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The Rumpus Interview with Missy Mazzoli

  • Joel Hoffman
  • June 5, 2013
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.
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Songs of Our Lives: Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” and the Stooges’ “Search and Destroy”

  • David Grossman
  • May 24, 2013
It’d be a stretch to say that Johnny Cash and Iggy Pop are connected in any meaningful way.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jesse Sykes

  • Scott Pinkmountain
  • March 6, 2013
The first thing you notice about Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter is Sykes’s voice. It’s a stunning blend of contradictions, cutting and vulnerable, breathy and scratchy, enigmatic and bare.
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The Rumpus Interview with Boots Riley of The Coup

  • Tom Andes
  • December 6, 2012
Since returning from a brief hiatus in the mid-1990s, Oakland’s The Coup has flirted with perfection on three albums: 1998’s Steal This Album, 2001’s Party Music, and 2006’s Pick a…
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Must We Hate Creed?

  • Byard Duncan
  • August 8, 2012
  (A Conveniently Bullet-pointed Argument Against Musical Malaise in 2012)
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ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: ANI DIFRANCO’S LIKE I SAID

  • Amanda Miller
  • July 23, 2012
Both hands, please use both hands. Oh no, don’t close your eyes. I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
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The Rumpus Interview with Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YaRdS

  • Scott Pinkmountain
  • June 7, 2012
Merrill Garbus’s music is hard to define or readily summarize.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Bag

  • Niina Pollari
  • May 25, 2012
“She looks like a Babylonian Gorgon,” a reviewer once wrote of Alice Bag in a show review. Her then-band, the Bags, was at the forefront of the late seventies punk scene in Bag’s native Los Angeles. 
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The Rumpus Interview with Jeremy Thal of Briars of North America

  • Katy Henriksen
  • May 22, 2012
I've never been much for scenes… and am not sure what scene I'm in now.
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Forever Changeless: The Beach Boys, The Smile Sessions

  • Chris Davidson
  • April 30, 2012
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…
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The Rumpus Conversation Between Jon DeRosa and Karolina Waclawiak

  • Karolina Waclawiak
  • April 19, 2012
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.
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