Conflating deja vu with karma in the Indiana Dark
Disaster capitalism, data farming, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Grandma’s hands, and our twisted romance with disenfranchisement
Black Music and Black Muses
Music writing that is not restricted by the demands, wishes, and timelines of the music industry. Writing, not advertising. Love, not a battle of the brands.
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Compulsion to Inherit the Wind
Excerpts from last week’s Windgrease Festival and a chance to hear and experience it digitally
Spectacles of the Sunken Place II
Ariana Grande, martyred, enabled, ennobled
Daddy issues distort the Siren's Song
On seeing The Odyssey in Hollywood last night
Abbey's Roads
Abridged journal of a week on assignment in Philly, Newark and New York, with Sonia Sanchez, the spirit of Abbey Lincoln, and the people in them steering.
Spectacles of The Sunken Place (1)
Future's new album, Jay Z, Jordan Peele, the monotony of torch songs
Fourth of July Listening Diary
Sun Ra, Yung Miami, Madonna, Louis Armstrong, etc.
Grief Fatigue, BET Fatigue
Funerals, tributes, vigils, devotionals and the absence of closure in black public life, or, why they do us like that on these televised awards shows and homegoings
Clive Davis is Dead
Notes on what time it is in the wake
One for the father
Notes on being the children of a sound mirror
Bitch-made: On Lizzo's new album &
Mammies, Waifs, Minstrels, and Superfans during the final throes of empire
Secular Blasphemy
Let people despise things, especially bad, formulaic musics hiding behind masks of decent intentions and hypebeasts. Some notes, some receipts, Nina Simone, Marcus Garvey.