Hip Hop Levels Up: Sammus & Pieces in Space
Sammus embraces the kind of freedom afforded to grassroots, independent artists who don’t have corporate overseers menacing with strange gazes and mandates to sellout.
“Forever is Already There” – On Thumb of the Maid
The best band no one has ever heard (or at the very least a quirky band whose one record brings me joy).
Back to the Old School: 5 Classic Hip Hop Albums You Need to Learn
“You know what you need to learn? Old school artists don’t always burn!”
1999: Radical Possibilities of Apocalypse
1999’s appeal emerges from a sense of danger, from the scandalous possibilities of a morality unbound by the coming apocalypse, disguised as synth-heavy dance pop
On Fear of Music
Frank Zappa may have said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, but fuck Frank Zappa
Interpreting Tommy
It’s Oedipal.
