Tom Petty Speaks Out Against Confederate Flag
Following the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House, Tom Petty approached Rolling Stone with his desire to speak out in favor of the decision and express a long-held...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #73: Prince Rogers Nelson, Guitar Player: A Symposium
The passing into the afterlife of Prince Rogers Nelson was sudden, it was unwarranted, and, because of his very reasonable wish for privacy, it was inexplicable. The outpouring of sentiment that...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden
Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #80: I Just Don’t Want to Wait Around Anymore
Longtime readers of this column may remember a narrative piece about Mark Mulcahy and the band Miracle Legion from 2010. And I also wrote about him for another publication on the occasion of his last...
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To Look for America: A Road Trip, a Soundtrack
I was raised by a history buff. A Civil War nerd. A father who dragged me from historical signs on the side of the roads all over the South to Lincoln’s birthplace and back to My Old Kentucky Home. A...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #89: In Praise of Tom Petty
Since Tom Petty’s death, one year ago today, I have been haunted by the nuances and complexities of his songs, the sense of how they improve with attention, and have improved markedly in the period of...
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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