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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Snail Mail’s Beloved Books
I’ve always been a really avid reader and writer, and I planned to be an English major in college, even though I’ve put that on hold to pursue music. Wherever I go out on tour, I always have a book...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Sanae Yamada’s Favorite Foods
I spend a lot of time on tour, traveling all over the place for music, for many months out of the year, many years on end. I get homesick sometimes but it’s not really for a place—more like for a...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Donna Dresch’s World of Radio
I’m a Navy brat so we always moved around every year, sometimes even more often. When I was a kid my parents gave me this stuffed animal dog radio. It got AM stations, and I remember at night, which is...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Tom May’s Hiking Boots
Sometimes when you play festivals, different companies give out free shit to the artists. Once, and I think this might have been the first time this happened, someone said, “Hey, if the band wants some...
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Everything Is Happening All of the Time: Talking with Sven Ratzke
Cabaret superstar Sven Ratzke has performed all around the world, including Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble in Berlin, the Sydney Opera House, and Arts...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Erin McKeown’s Dress
From 1998-2001, I was a resident artist at this amazing, visionary community arts organization in Providence called AS220. I was still in college, but I was living in the communal residency studios and...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Alice Bag’s Queen’s Quilt
I grew up in East LA in the ‘60s. My parents were both immigrants and we were poor. My mom was a stay-at-home mom most of the time and my father worked in construction. The times when we had money, I...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Thurston Moore’s 12-String Guitar
Two years ago I was commissioned to present music here in London at The Barbican. I had done work with them through the years in different capacities, but usually as a bit of a guest to somebody else....
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Palehound’s Special Skateboard
As a kid I was never really into sports, but when I was about eight years old, I got really into the Tony Hawk games on GameCube and I was also really into Avril Lavigne—everything about skateboarding...
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Wanted/Need/Loved: Moby’s 30 Rock
Like everybody, I watch a lot of television. I’m fifty-three years old, so in the course of my life I’ve spent say fifty-two years watching TV, and in all that time there have been a lot of great...
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