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Kieran Hebden, aka: Four Tet, aka: the glitch-triggering [Wingdings], remains the most exquisitely musical superstar DJ on the planet. A brief history.
Weekend notes, links + jollies. New music, old music, an ace salsa history podcast, and some good reads.
The California-born Washington-based singer-songwriter delivers a keeper about loss, memory, the road and what transpires on it.
With Bob Weir's death in January, summers are now Dead-less. Yet online, in galleries, on movie screens and stages from Newport to the Greek Theatre, the music never stopped.
Benedict Lombe's "Shifters" — a UK import at the tiny Cherry Lane Theater in the West Village — made me weep. And the music was sweet.
New songs by Sylvan Esso, The Durutti Column, Phoebe Bridgers. Covers of Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Fela, the Felice Brothers. (Ultra-) rare tracks by David Bowie, the Grateful Dead + The Beatles.
I spoke w/ the poet, activist + reggae legend about retirement, resistance, the West African renaissance, the newly-restored 1979 doc "DREAD BEAT AN BLOOD" + the wordless solo album he just finished.
Music history can tether us to the present. Thoughts on the (English) Beat's "Whine and Grine/Stand Down Margaret" and Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire"
Wilco's Solid Sound. Montreal Jazz Fest. Le Festival International Nuits d’Afrique. The holy communion of concert-going.
A firecracker for a fearsomely hot Fourth of July weekend.
