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The Plane That We Inhabit: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones
Reparations Now! is the smart and timely third collection by poet, teacher, editor, and essayist Ashley M. Jones. These poems are often deeply personal, always beautifully crafted, as heartbreaking as...
View ArticleSong of the Day: “Gin House Blues”
Today, the so-called British Invasion of the ’60s is remembered primarily for its flagship band, The Beatles. Another English group called The Animals—widely known for their international hit version...
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Album of the Week: Sampha’s Process
After collaborating with the likes of Beyoncè, SBTRKT, Jessie Ware, Drake, Kanye West, Frank Ocean, and Solange, 28-year-old British singer, songwriter and producer Sampha has finally released his...
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Album of the Week: Tei Shi’s Crawl Space
Tei Shi is Valerie Teicher—born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, raised between Bogota, Colombia, and Vancouver, Canada, she now lives in New York after graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music....
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tell Me Something Good
I am listening to R&B with my Aunt Mae upstairs in our house that was once a single family, then a duplex, then a single family again when we lived there. We’re just at the top of the stairs on the...
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Album of the Week: Bravado by Kirin J. Callinan
“With every decision I made, I picked the least-tasteful option,” Australian singer-songwriter Kirin J. Callinan told the FADER in discussing how his newest album, Bravado (Terrible Records) came to...
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Album of the Week: Something to Tell You by HAIM
Four years after releasing their impressive debut album Days Are Gone, HAIM are back with their long-awaited sophomore project, Something to Tell You, out now via Polydor. The three Angeleno sisters...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #83: On George
There really is not a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t stop at some moment and think about George Harrison. With the rerelease of Sgt. Pepper, and the commencement of the Sirius/XM Beatles channel,...
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Album of the Week: Take Me Apart by Kelela
Take Me Apart is the debut LP from thirty-four-year-old Kelela, born in Washington, DC to Ethiopian parents, raised in Maryland, and now based in LA. The album, out now via Warp, took the...
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No Pressure: Bieber, Blackness, the Cult of Perfection
Right now I admit I’m thinking about Bieber (again) and male Blackness in America even though he’s Canadian (and that other thing, white). I’m thinking about the cult of perfection and whiteness and...
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