Catching up with The Evens, revisiting Southland Tales, Elizabeth Ellen’s playlist, Ta-Nehisi Coates delivers another fantastic essay, Obits returns, and more.
Behold: Ian MacKaye talking questions at Seattle’s excellent all-ages space, The VERA Project. There’s dry humor on display as well as smart observations on sharing music, the economics of running a label, and more. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Ian MacKaye’s surprise 50th birthday party — revealed! In related news, happy birthday to Ian MacKaye. Spencer Ackerman on zinemaking, Refused, and the influence of the anarcho-punk band Catharsis on his work as a journalist. Junot Diáz on werewolves, film adaptations, New Jersey, and more. Melissa Broder is interviewed by Julia Jackson at The Outlet (and both writers involved will be reading at our event at RAC tomorrow evening.) One of our editors will be reading as part of tonight’s Storychord […]
Today is Ian MacKaye’s birthday. His name was mentioned twelve times at our greatest 3-Minute Punk Stories event, which Impose took photos of. Ron Swanson + Rorschach from Alan Moore’s Watchmen =s Ron Sworscach. Dave Eggers isn’t going to Germany to accept an award from the Günter Grass Foundation. Melissa Broder gives a mix to Electric Literature. “I was in this shop in Edinburgh one time,” he chuckles, “and this wee guy comes up to me like: ‘You’re Irvine Welsh, aren’t you?’ […]
A new book chronicles the fading “ghost signs” of New York City. Jeffrey Eugenides is Michael Silverblatt’s latest guest on Bookworm. Kio Stark thinks you to learn anything without going back to school. Salon does a roundup of great indie bookstores. Mayor Michael Blooberg sucks more and more every day. At Pitchfork, Brandon Stosuy talks to Ian MacKaye about the Fugazi live show archive. Quintron and Miss Pussycat are back. Daniel Blumberg from Yuck has some artwork he’d like to […]
Remember that time I asked if Stephen Elliott is the new punk rock because of his DIY book tour? Steve Almond is starting to make me think that he too is deserving of my horrible photoshopping skills. Today on The Rumpus, Almond continued sharing his thoughts on why he decided to self-publish, a subject he discussed a few weeks back in the LA Times.
Rob Gordon in High Fidelity (book or film, you pick) was onto the right idea with the above quote, but I like to ask: What came first, the writer or the music they listened to? Did the down-and-out junkie poetry of Lou Reed inspire countless scribes like his band The Velvet Underground supposedly inspired anybody who listened to them to start a band? Or did anybody start writing poetry after finding out that Leonard Cohen the songwriter was (and is) […]
Rob Gordon in High Fidelity (book or film, you pick) was onto the right idea with the above quote, but I like to ask: What came first, the writer or the music they listened to? Did the down-and-out junkie poetry of Lou Reed inspire countless scribes like his band The Velvet Underground supposedly inspired anybody who listened to them to start a band? Or did anybody start writing poetry after finding out that Leonard Cohen the songwriter was (and is) […]