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“I’ve been the assistant librarian at the Santa Fe Institute for almost a decade. The iconoclastic novelist, Cormac McCarthy, has been my “office mate” across most of those years. I’m about to leave...
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Notable New York, This Week 12/7 – 12/13
This week in New York Malcolm Gladwell and James Wood talk about Evangelicalism and the Contemporary Intellectual, members of the Velvet Underground reunite at the New York Public Library, 60...
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The Velvet Underground’s Not-Quite-a-Reunion Reunion
“They can’t make us wait in lines,” my friend said when we were told the doors weren’t open yet. “This is punk rock.”Rock band reunions normally involve, at minimum, a little live music. But as The...
View ArticleLou Reed Does it Again
You’ve probably heard about Lou Reed’s multilayered Poe ventures which have taken on various artistic forms—a concept album, formerly a theater piece, and now a graphic novel. And that’s not all.The...
View ArticleLou Reed, the poet
Lou Reed, member of The Velvet Underground, wrote a poem, “O Delmore how I miss you,” to his college professor Delmore Schwartz in Poetry Magazine.“Reading Yeats and the bell had rung but the poem was...
View ArticleRIP Lou Reed
Lou Reed, who changed the face of rock music both with the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, passed away yesterday at the age of 71.We trust you know where to find his music, but you may also be...
View ArticleLou Reed’s Discobiography
This week in The New Yorker, Nick Flynn writes a poem about Lou Reed. There have also been some other great articles about Lou Reed.“Discobiography” might sound like the title of a cheesy 70s memoir,...
View ArticleLou Reed Will Set You Free
For Poetry, artist Tony Fitzpatrick talks about how Lou Reed’s “Take a Walk on the Wild Side” opened him up to “another side.” Fitzpatrick shares some of his memories of Reed and a slideshow of his...
View ArticleSong of the Day: “Fountain Stairs”
The influential indie group Deerhunter have allegedly described their unique music as “ambient punk.” Founding member Bradford Cox—known also for his side project, Atlas Sound—provides eerily beautiful...
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Sound & Vision #17: Spencer Drate & Judith Salavetz
Welcome back to Sound & Vision, the Rumpus profile series that spotlights the creative talents of those working behind the scenes in the music industry. Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz are a...
View ArticleDavid Bowie: A Rumpus Roundup
Musical and creative icon David Bowie died Sunday night, succumbing to cancer at the age of sixty-nine.Bowie and his persona Ziggy Stardust produced more than two dozen studio albums—transcending rock...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #72: Urban Pastoral
Way Out Weather, Steve Gunn’s release from late 2014, has been one of my most consistently favorite albums of the last couple of years. (And maybe it’s exactly a writer’s album, because it was...
View ArticleSong of the Day: “Harlem River”
Of the countless homages to New York City, a multitude of styles and approaches could be cited, from Billy Joel to Lou Reed to Jay-Z. A 2013 album by guitarist Kevin Morby, known for his work with...
View ArticleA Ringing in Your Ears That Would Disappear by Morning
Growing up in Virginia, in a mixed family in the ’80s and ’90s, was like sticking your heart in a meat grinder daily. You learned to wait for the inevitable Insert Racist Joke Here, followed by the...
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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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