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February 7, 2023
Shorties (Jennifer Maritza McCauley's Recommended Afro-Latina Writers, An Interview with John Cale, and more)
Jennifer Maritza McCauley recommended Afro-Latina writers you should read.
SPIN interviewed John Cale.
What drew you to the avant-garde side of things at a young age?
It was really exciting to do the avant-garde. I understood what the roles were for Aaron Copeland and a bunch of really European composers, and Europe has a documented history of advanced thinking in music. I thought it would be interesting to find out what other groups of people from different parts of the world and their idea of what avant-garde meant. What you’re really looking at is how people share conversations, in the sense that there’s a conversation going on between the composer and the audience. These generate other feelings and other ideas. I ended up paying attention to John Cage. They say that Le Monte was the most interesting American musical composer and that he was working and deliberating in different arenas than Stockhausen would. The whole European thing was hung up in intonation — in how melodic and chordal developments in the music were really stuck in one place.
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Bandcamp Daily profiled L.A. experimental music label Dragon’s Eye Recordings.
In 2018, Novak implemented a policy to only accept demos from under-represented voices. The releases that have followed have all been from LGBTQ+, female/non-binary, disabled, and/or neurodivergent artists. “The big change was that I really tried to stop curating the aesthetics of the label,” he says. “I felt like, in order to uplift marginalized voices, I also needed to trust that they knew better than I did what was relevant in their community.” As a result, the sonics of the label have spun out in a ton of exciting directions.
Kirkus recommended books that offer hope for the climate crisis.
Stream a new Shonen Knife song.
The New York Times interviewed author Walter Mosley.
Erik Holt discussed recording Canto Ostinato by the late Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt at Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
Stephen Graham Jones discussed his new novel Don't Fear the Reaper with Paste.
Paste Magazine: So, the title Don’t Fear The Reaper —which is one of my favorite songs, by the way—I’m assuming that must come from Blue Oyster Cult.
Stephen Graham Jones: Well, it does come from Blue Oyster Cult, but really it’s that—in Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis and her friend are riding in her friend’s Monte Carlo, and they’re listening to (Don’t Fear) The Reaper, and then in 1996 with Scream, a cover of Don’t Fear) The Reaper is playing over Billy and Sid, and so it seemed like that was a kind of momentum. I had no choice but to call it Don’t Fear The Reaper, I was going to honor my heroes.
Stream a new song by Penelope Trappes.
Electric Literature shared two new poems by Akhim Alexis.
Stream a new song by Barrie.
Laura Warrell wrote about writing while black at Literary Hub.
Stream a new song by Billie Marten.
Mariana Enriquez talked to the New Yorker about her story in this week's issue.
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