One of the more random success stories in recent music history has to be the rise of El-P and Killer Mike as Run the Jewels. Though What’s the Rumpus?
Run the Jewels
Express Live, Columbus, January 16
January 20th, 2017 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
One of the more random success stories in recent music history has to be the rise of El-P and Killer Mike as Run the Jewels. Though
Peter Hook & The Light
Webster Hall, New York, September 23
September 26th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | 1 Comment »
It’s a fact of growing older that the bands you loved as a kid are probably not going to age gracefully. Their once skinny leather-clad bodies
Kristin Kontrol and Garbage
Summerstage, New York, August 1
August 5th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
As the leader of the Dum Dum Girls (under the succinct nom de plume of Dee Dee), Kristin Gundred created a trio of records
Pitchfork Music Festival
Union Park, Chicago, July 15–17
July 21st, 2016 | by Matt Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
The Pitchfork Music Festival has always been a great place to see a few bands you love, a few bands you know, and a few bands you had no idea you would love
Pitchfork Music Festival 2016
Preview
July 14th, 2016 | by Matt Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
Catharsis, virtuosity, spectacle, escape. Pitchfork’s annual Chicago festival, at its best, offers heightened moments of all four, and in the most
Howard Jones and OMD
Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica, Cleveland, June 11
June 20th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
While it would be easy to dismiss this double-bill of openers as a cash-grab at ’80s nostalgia—and perhaps that is exactly what
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
Manchester, June 9–12
June 17th, 2016 | by Matthew Lovett | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
Although Bonnaroo’s long ago outlived its reputation as a hippie retreat, when you make it to the Farm—as it’s affectionately called by attendees and organizers
Big Ears Festival
Knoxville, March 31–April 3
April 6th, 2016 | by Richard Sanford | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
Big Ears Festival in Knoxville scratches an itch no other American festival quite does. Ashley Capps, one of the creators of Bonnaroo, brings some of the most
Crooked Fingers
HiFi, New York, January 28
February 2nd, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in What's the Rumpus? | Leave A Comment »
As I’m sure is the case with many people, there are albums whose songs have become so intertwined with my memories from a specific moment in time
Winter Jazzfest
New York, January 15–16
January 21st, 2016 | by Richard Sanford | published in What's the Rumpus? | 1 Comment »
Now in its 12th year, New York’s Winter Jazzfest has become one of the preeminent jazz events in the country. Spreading the fest’s events out over a