Sound Takes: Dark Bird is Home
He’s a poet, ambiguous and layered, a lyricist able to make listeners feel something they can’t always explain, what I believe a song worth listening to should do.
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Erykah Badu’s One-Human Show
Live Nudity: Meditate on Deez, Erykah Badu’s one-human show, has premiered at the Naomi Bruton Main Stage at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas (Badu’s hometown). Okayplayer…
This Week in Posivibes: The Chills
New Zealand’s The Chills just released their first album since 1996, and it’s brilliant. Coming up alongside The Clean and The Bats, The Chills are the kind of band that…
A Pink Lung Halloween
Pink Mountaintops and White Lung have paired up for a collaborative project called Pink Lung, and released a music video with a very Halloween vibe for their song “Chinese Watermelon.”…
Sinatra Wore It Better
The Guardian has a series of incredible photos of the Chairman from the new book Sinatra: The Photographs, and they confirm what we already knew: the crooner outclasses us all,…
The (Limited) Info on Bowie’s Next Album
The iconic artist cleared up the rumors about his upcoming record by specifying that it will not be related to any sound clips that were circulating this weekend, will not part…
Song of the Day: “Cold Sweat”
James Brown is known for creating a thing called funk, but it was the song “Cold Sweat,” co-written with his bandleader Pee Wee Ellis and released in 1967, that truly…
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Chris Frantz’s Pocket Camera
What I want/need/love most are the tools that allow me to document what I see and experience, at home and in my travels, now and in the future.
Well-Shot Horror for The Shoes
In his video for the song “Submarine” by the french synth-duo The Shoes, director Karim Huu Do takes the eeriness latent in the song to a fully horrific place of…
This Week in Posivibes: Little Simz
When Kendrick Lamar says you “might be the illest doing it now,” people take note, not that Little Simz necessarily needs the help—her debut A Curious Tale of Trials +…
The New Appropriating
In response to the world’s general assumption that James Turrell was heavily involved in Drake’s video for “Hotline Bling,” the seminal light artist has come out with a formal statement…
Adele Formally Announces New Album
Rumors have been circling for a while now about Adele being close to ready to release her follow-up to 2011’s wildly successful 21. Now the singer has confirmed herself that…