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The Rumpus Interview with Jolie Holland
In July I speak to Jolie Holland on the phone the morning after she plays Norman, Oklahoma, two weeks into her tour to support her new record, Pint of Blood. Though her answers often surprise me—she’s...
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Inside Outside
IceageNew Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?)Perhaps because the band consists of four clean-cut Danish teenagers, Iceage’s brash, discordant punk has made it the darlings of both the Pitchfork and the...
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The Rumpus Interview with James McMurtry
I call James McMurtry late one morning when I’m visiting Austin, Texas. By now, I’ve seen him play three times, in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and California, and I’m always struck by the way audiences in...
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Rumpus Sound Takes: California Bubble Pop
Ty SegallGoodbye Bread (Drag City)Orange County native Ty Segall weaves garage, surf, glam, and psychedelic rock into a collage that plays as self-consciously with its sources as any post-1960s folk...
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The Rumpus Interview with Todd Snider
While the electric guitar marks a departure from Todd Snider’s last few records, Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables falls squarely into the groove he hit after 2004’s East Nashville Skyline. A laid back...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Mary Chapin Carpenter
Throughout a recording career that has spanned nearly three decades, Mary Chapin Carpenter has consistently topped Billboard’s US Country charts while identifying as much with singer-songwriters like...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Boots Riley of The Coup
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 Bigger Weapon....
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Creeping Familiarity
Junk CultureWild Quiet (Illegal Art)Wild Quiet, Junk Culture’s full-length debut on Illegal Art, consists of eight songs and one instrumental fragment that treat the themes of home, freedom, and...
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WUSA Reconsidered: Newman’s Epic Flop Forty Years Later
I’ve always had a soft spot for literary and cinematic evocations of New Orleans. Filmed in black and white, set to Tom Waits’s “Jockey Full of Bourbon,” the shots of the city that open Jim Jarmusch’s...
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