In that short time, however, he left us with one song that recast his lifelong struggles into a breathtaking, triumphant epic. “I’m No Stranger to the Rain,” the last single he released just months before his death, encapsulates Whitley’s abilities as an artist, rising above the tragedy surrounding it to find a deeper strength. ItRead More
You could never accuse Goldie of lacking ambition. In 1998, just three years after the British producer’s debut album, Timeless, brought new levels of sophistication to the nascent jungle sound, Goldie opted to kick off his second LP with “Mother,” a gut-wrenching, hour-long cry for help. “It’s like looking at your mum’s vagina and knowing:Read More
Bhosle is known for singing daring and unconventional characters, and for her fluidity and ease across genres. Compared to her sister’s more chaste selections, Bhosle often voiced songs for actors portraying seductresses, sex workers, and cabaret dancers. She was a divorcée and a single mother for many years, and lyrics she had sung were oftenRead More
Mingus was so disgusted by bad news wafting up from below the Mason-Dixon line that he broke his career’s mold and wrote a song with lyrics, the kind of loose barroom call-and-response that his hero and former collaborator Charlie Parker swaggered through on the lighthearted Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke tune “Salt Peanuts.” Mingus’ contentRead More
On a beach in Mexico, the Minutemen awoke to pain. They had spent the previous day swimming for hours along Rosarito Beach. Now, on the morning of Mexico’s 1982 election, the three punks were hungover and sunburnt, their newly shaved heads red and raw. Before decamping to a taqueria, they watched a woman make herRead More
Throughout the 2010s, the YouTube algorithm would summon a mysterious transmission. Uploaded in 2012 by a user named “taia777,” the video featured a 15-minute loop of David Wise’s “Stickerbush Symphony” over a cascading image of thorn bushes in the sky, taken from the levels scored by the song in the 1995 Super Nintendo (SNES) gameRead More
There is no question more charged, more human, or more unanswerable than “Why?” We are surrounded and acted upon by forces we often can’t understand, and we’d all like more answers than are readily available. Even the unexpectedly good is unsettling: What’s the catch, you wonder. When will the other shoe drop? But ask “Why?”Read More
London R&B singer Ella Mai broke out in 2018 with the sleeper hit “Boo’d Up,” which employed its chorus, mimicking a heartbeat, to channel the kind of easygoing romance that puts a skip in your step. “There Goes My Heart,” a highlight from her new album, Do You Still Love Me?, captures the more demandingRead More
Part Shock G’s Humpty Hump and part Skrilla’s masked horrorcore, Burger Marty is the character of an anonymous Broward County rapper who wears a clown mask and a Haitian uncle get-up (down to the fake gut and Kohl’s Cash outfit). On his ridiculous kompa send-up “Bring Custo,” he weaves in and out of English andRead More
There’s an Onion joke from the ’90s that still makes me chuckle when I think of the headline: “National Funk Congress Deadlocked on Get Up/Get Down Issue,” in which Majority Leader James Brown and Minority Leader Bootsy Collins try to settle it once and for all. Back then, West Coast rap was rearing G-funk andRead More
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