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This Week in Posivibes: A Frank Ocean Bonanza

It’s not hyperbole to say that everyone is losing their minds over Frank Ocean’s release of Endless, Blonde, and Boys Don’t Cry Magazine. After a four-year wait between albums, this outpouring offers a lot of incredible material…

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The Rumpus Interview with Rich Cohen

Rich Cohen discusses his new book The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, writing book proposals, and interviewing rock stars.

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Song of the Day: “You Never Know”

Wilco’s long career, beginning all the way back in 1994, has taken a lot of twists and turns. The band’s identity has morphed at least a few times along the…

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Songs of Our Lives: Guns N’ Roses’s “Paradise City”

When people asked what I was going to do after high school, I said, “Leave town.” I wasn’t kidding. I hadn’t applied to a single college.

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Albums of Our Lives: Beck’s Odelay

A friend once showed me his dad’s copy of the Beatles's White Album and said you could find secret messages hidden in the lyrics. I tried to look for the same things in Odelay, but it resisted.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Wanting To Dance

It just felt so comfortable to slide back into singing, “She Loves You,” and know for that moment, everything was the same.

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The Rumpus Interview with Elisa Ambrogio and Naomi Yang

Renaissance women Elisa Ambrogio and Naomi Yang discuss stop motion music videos, the female mythology of rock-n-roll, and giving ourselves permission to be creative, make music, and explore art in an intuitive way.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #58: Crowdsourcing

Music-obsessive activity, in general, appears to be about music. You could, on the surface, mistake it for being about music. But in fact what it is about is memory and love.

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Song of the Day: “My Sweet Lord”

Whatever your spiritual orientation, the implicit message of George Harrison’s 1971 single “My Sweet Lord” is undeniably uplifting. The track was allegedly written as a paean in opposition to religious…

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“Mellifluent Instances” of Language

“Cellar door” isn’t the only euphonious phrase in the English language. For Printers Row, the Chicago Tribune‘s literary journal, Michael Robbins catalogs some of the “perfectly strung-together words” that have the power…

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Hateful Things

Taylor’s arms are around me and I haven’t yet realized that the first boy I’ve ever loved is teaching me how to hate.

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Monstress

Lysley Tenorio’s linked short story collection, Monstress, organically ties together stories of the misfits and outcasts of both the Philippines and Southern California.

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