We all have that one piece of clothing, be it a fresh new hat or a favorite pair […]
Category Archive: music
In 1979, Soul Train host Don Cornelius introduced the nation to five dancers who called themselves the Electric […]
I was wandering through a street fair off Canal Street a few years ago when I came across […]
It’s difficult to overstate the ubiquity of Juan Gabriel’s voice in the everyday lives of Mexicans, both here in the US and in Mexico, where the megastar’s dozens of hits, some of them decades old, still blare from roadside fondas, urban nightclubs, and blown out stereo speakers.
On March 14, President Barack Obama welcomed the company of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton to a special […]
For a generation of youth–queer and non-queer alike–Prince cleared the path to a different way of embodying gender and […]
It was late on a Friday, and I was hanging out with my parents in Gastonia, NC. They […]
The Sound of Motor City: Ruin Porn, Popular Memory, and Protomartyr’s Vision of 21st Century Detroit
For the past couple years, one of the most vital sounds in music today has come out of […]