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Sound & Vision #23: John Holmstrom, Roberta Bayley, and Chris Stein
Welcome back to Sound & Vision, the Rumpus profile series that spotlights the creative talents of those working behind the scenes in the music industry. In conjunction with the fortieth anniversary...
View ArticleRemembering Lou Reed
It’s hard to believe that it’s been three years since Lou Reed’s passing. In remembrance of his work and legacy, Laurie Anderson organized a day-long tribute to her late husband on Saturday, with...
View ArticleSound Takes: You Want it Darker
Leonard Cohen You Want it Darker (Columbia) Some things are hard to write about—forget even speaking about them. Actually, forget just talking to one another: some things are flat out impossible to...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #79: The Rhythm Section Speaks
When a band gets to the second album in a reunion cycle, and when this reunion comes to be near to its tenth year, it no longer makes sense to call the reunion by that name. Furthermore, when the band...
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Sound & Vision: Anthony DeCurtis
Anthony DeCurtis’s music journalism has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the New York Times, Vibe, and Rolling Stone, where he is a contributing editor. The essay he wrote to...
View ArticleThe Queer Syllabus: Velvet Goldmine by Todd Haynes
The Queer Syllabus is a joint project from The Rumpus and Foglifter Press that allows writers to nominate works for a new canon of queer literature. When we identify our roots, when we point to the...
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Everything Is Happening All of the Time: Talking with Sven Ratzke
Cabaret superstar Sven Ratzke has performed all around the world, including Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble in Berlin, the Sydney Opera House, and Arts...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #102: Song Turned Blue
Sometimes the historical context of a written piece can change so entirely in the process of composition that the words mean something other than you imagined just in the time it takes to finish. So it...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Thurston Moore’s 12-String Guitar
Two years ago I was commissioned to present music here in London at The Barbican. I had done work with them through the years in different capacities, but usually as a bit of a guest to somebody else....
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Swinging Modern Sounds: Observations on the Occasion of a 100th Column
1. Music has changed a lot since I started writing the Swinging Modern Sounds column in 2009. 2. For example, when I started the column I was still primarily listening to music on compact disc. 3. I...
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