Records Don’t Love You Back: In Search of Lost 78s
These records, like the collectors who chase after them, enjoy transient existences and sharing them gives that ephemerality some meaning and purpose.
Music
"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie
From Outer Space, or Something: Fantasizing Capital in Contemporary Hip-Hop
Rappers like Rick Ross, Jay-Z, and Kanye West use fantasy to challenge the duty to represent lack within black life.
Rock ’n’ Roll Lives, Long Live Rock ’n’ Roll
"Rock ’n’ roll acts as a language rather than a genre — one whose health is measured not by chart positions or album sales, but by artists and listeners."
Adventures in Cultural Appropriation
As white pop stars like Taylor Swift continue their excursions into the fantasy of racial drag, the backlash fails to recognize the deeper structural inequity from which such music emerges. It also ceases to appreciate how cultural appropriation may be liberatory.
Analog, Again: Jack White’s “Language Lessons”
Jack White’s Third Man Records launches its publishing wing with Language Lessons: Volume 1, a monument to White’s stalwart analog sensibility in the digital age.
Duane Allman, Skydog, Explained
Bobsession
We don’t choose our obsessions; our obsessions choose us. Nowhere is this truer than in the obsessive following Bob Dylan has amassed since his rise to fame in the early 1960s.
Living Fast: Revisiting Oasis's "Definitely Maybe"
The Last Donut of the Night
Heroic Age Post-Modernism
Revolutionary Performances
How It Feels to Be Free traces both the idea of “the Black Revolutionary” and the lived experiences of actual revolutionaries — particularly the revolutionary performances of Black women entertainers.
Alienated Old Man Creates Some Sad Music
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