Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop
...novelty,” then they aren’t people who could threaten her artistic credibility; they are people who overtly don’t give a damn about music. Haters no longer police the essence of a...
Our Fellow Travelers
...entire screen with all the gestures and grace of a sweaty black club. At times, especially during the genius pajama-party scene, when that paleo-twerk classic of D.C. go-go music, “Da...
If You Are Lucky Enough To Be In LA...
...and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. But more recently, defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits...
Sunday Reading
...meet my fellow protesters, I hear people emerge from their balconies and the music starts. If you do not live here, I wish I could properly convey to you what...
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
...for her answer. “Libby?” he called again. By that time he realized he could not even hear the sound of his own voice above the music coming from the radio....
Blind Ambition
...assisted lost strangers and contrived clever board games to play with the town's other blind residents. Music enchanted him. He attended concerts and joined music societies. Often ringing through the...
A Summer Fête: The New Inquiry's First Annual Summer Benefit
...invite you to our first annual summer benefit, for hors d'oeuvres, music and an open bar to enjoy the sunset on the Sackett Farms balcony. The event will feature music...
Don't Be a Stranger
...world’s first social network. It sprung from a different sort of DIY culture than the feel-good Northwest indie vibes of Urban Honking. Makeoutclub was populated by lonely emo and punk...
Opening Reception: Yto Barrada & DJ /rupture @ Walker Art Center 11/21
...Yto Barrada In conjunction with the exhibition An Album: Cinematheque Tangier, join artist Yto Barrada and special guest DJ/rupture, referred to as “a thoughtful pipeline for music from...
Inquiring Minds
...the child of infancy and the person forming at five, that is a vast difference. Are the profoundest reaches of the imagination beyond language? R: Yes. See: music. M: yes....
Fringe Feminists
...Creem Magazine, February 1976: Patti's heroes may be gone, but she is both with us and for us, so strongly that her music is something, finally, to rally around....
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...Jetlir, Tom, Pia, and Anna attend. “We want our pupils to learn how to use the Internet productively,” says music teacher André Spang, “Not just for clicking around in.” Spang...
A Dark City
...You have reminded me of those good old days, he jokes. And he tells me of the beauty of the parks and the architecture, of the astounding culture and the...
Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
Skin Feeling
...beautiful story I know about Bird was told by August Blume: “There was this musician’s girl who had a bad case for Bird’s music. She left her fiancé to follow...
The Pitfalls of Indie Fame
...sophisticated interpretation of primitive music, vaguely akin to Nick Hornby (but less funny and with more looping). 4. I have no idea what these stories are supposed to be about....