Aug 14, 2020
By Frank Valish
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Coming up in hip-hop’s Golden Age, Brooklyn’s Big Daddy Kane was a lyricist with peerless flow, commanding the microphone with a blazing style that showed him as adept at rapping with exquisite speed and slowing it down for a late night beneath the sheets jam. More
Aug 13, 2020
By Steve King
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Florida is a confounding place. I’ve been all over Florida for work as a stupid 20-something selling art door-to-door in the early 2000s. You name the town and there’s a good chance I’ve been there. I’ve seen naked people in business environments, twice, in two different cities. More
Aug 12, 2020
By Steve King
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Eliza Orlins has been a Manhattan Public Defender for over a decade, defending those in court who cannot afford to defend themselves. She did stints on Survivor and The Amazing Race and parlayed it into a career in law. She took the ball and ran with it. Now, the path she’s been on finds her at a crossroads, as she has entered the Democratic race for District Attorney of Manhattan. More
Aug 07, 2020
By Jake Uitti
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Singer extraordinaire CeeLo Green released his latest album, CeeLo Green is Thomas Callaway, on June 26. The record, produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, is the first release in the past five years for the spirited, soulful vocalist. Green, who has worked extensively in his career with Outkast, The Dungeon Family, and Danger Mouse (in the world-famous duo, Gnarls Barkley), is a flexible, malleable performer. More
Aug 06, 2020
By Mark Redfern
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We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with all three members of Montréal, Canada’s Plants and Animals (lead singer/guitarist Warren Spicer, guitarist/vocalist Nic Basque, and drummer/vocalist Matthew Woodley). More
Jul 31, 2020
By Mark Redfern and Samantha Small
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To end out the week, we ask Alex Izenberg some questions about endings and death. Izenberg’s new album, Caravan Château, came out today via Domino imprint Weird World. More
Jul 29, 2020
By Mark Redfern
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My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Alex Izenberg. More
Jul 28, 2020
By Jake Uitti
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Donita Sparks always catches your eye. Whether she’s on stage playing her smirking brand of rock ‘n’ roll in her notorious group, L7, or if she’s creating her beloved new web series, The Hi-Low Show, Sparks is often bright, flashy and oddly memorable. More
