Dogs & Drums: A Chat With Janet Weiss of Quasi

Dogs & Drums: A Chat With Janet Weiss of Quasi

What’s the music on your answering machine? I’m playing “Swanee River” on the harmonica. I wondered whether you were playing it or holding something recorded…

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A Hotel Room Chat with Wanda Jackson, First Lady of Rock N' Roll

A Hotel Room Chat with Wanda Jackson, First Lady of Rock N’ Roll

Wanda Jackson, Live in 2007. Photo by the author. “We do need a girl…” type of thinking got Wanda Jackson on tour with Elvis in…

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Musical & Mathematical Abstractions... and Table Tennis: A Rap Session with Daniel Snaith of Caribou

Musical & Mathematical Abstractions… and Table Tennis: A Rap Session with Daniel Snaith of Caribou

Not many people will ever use the phrase “Overconvergent Siegel Modular Symbols” in a sentence, but that’s one thing that makes Dr. Daniel Snaith, the…

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