“Sabotage” Video Recreated by Coolest Librarians Ever
You gotta fight! For your right! To check out books and return them by their due date!Some librarians who are cooler than everyone else in the world decided to remake the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” video...
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What About Bob?
It was a weekday in the summer of 2009 when I spotted Bob Mack outside a Herald Square bodega sucking down his second tall boy of the morning, rumpled New York Post under his arm. Sporting an untucked,...
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The Rumpus Interview with Tyler Gartzman
Tyler Gartzman is a skinny, twenty-one-year-old, bespectacled white Jewish kid studying business at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He’s also a surprisingly talented and dexterous rapper, a comer...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #65: Tragedy Plus Time
Jesse Malin is a lifer in a business that rarely features lifers anymore. He started playing music as a teenager in Queens, in the beloved and infamous D Generation, migrated to lower Manhattan, and,...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ian Svenonius’s “Principles of Modernism”
Is it okay if we talk about something that’s not quite an object? As I started thinking about what I need, especially when I go on tour, the most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Victim Story, a Mix CD
We grew up with the same. The same street and gray skies, spray-painting stencils on the griptape of our skateboards in my parents’ yard, as tractors pushed seeds into the ground around us. You said,...
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The Butt Song
1992. A ramshackle living room wallpapered with punk-show flyers and slogans: Meat is Murder! Fugazi! Stop the Genocide! Saturday afternoons, Positive Force (PoFo), the punk rock lefty do-gooder...
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Sound & Vision Is
Five years ago, “David Bowie is” made its debut in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum. After worldwide stops in Toronto, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Chicago, Paris, Melbourne, Groningen, Bologna, Tokyo,...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection
The listing impulse in music criticism is, well, hard to like. Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity, ruined it, perhaps, at a time when it was going to be ruined anyway by reason of overuse. The...
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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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