To Look for America: A Road Trip, a Soundtrack
One thing I was taught about travel—because my father is a black man born in Alabama in 1950—was that there are safe places for black people to go and places that aren't as safe.
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Album of the Week: Julien Baker’s Turn Out the Lights
"Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. You can’t just always let go."
Sound & Vision: Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw
Allyson McCabe talks with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw, two of the founders of the performance group Split Britches, about their lives and work.
Album of the Week: St. Vincent’s MASSEDUCTION
"You can’t fact-check it, but if you want to know about my life, listen to this record."
STRIPPERDADDY
My thoughts hovered above the scene pondering the reasons why and time felt like the waves of a puddle lapping against cracked asphalt.
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Zola Jesus’s Natural World
About a year ago, I ended up returning to the land where I grew up and building a house here.
Album of the Week: Take Me Apart by Kelela
"The reality is that the way that I’m expressing myself on this record is coming from a place of vulnerability that is very much in the tradition of R&B."
Album of the Week: Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism
AROMANTICISM is a new vision of songwriting, a trip into contemporary loneliness, and proof that, nowadays, every man is an island.
Album of the Week: Annie Hart’s Impossible Accomplice
Annie Hart, singer, keyboardist, and bassist for Au Revoir Simone, is debuting a solo album, IMPOSSIBLE ACCOMPLICE, out via Uninhabitable Mansions.
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Franklin James Fisher’s “Rhoda”
I have to work to get the sounds, but then the magic kicks in.
Album of the Week: Forced Witness by Alex Cameron
"Where does one draw the line when you as a person believe in progress, but as a writer feel like you need to focus on people who would challenge that, who would ask us to regress?"