14 stories by "Harmony Holiday"
In the duo's new hip-hop album, I Guess U Had to Be There, a lyricism that finds its solidarity with the '60s.
I Guess U Had to Be There, by Elucid & Sebb Bash,
Backwoodz Studioz
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In the jazz musician's autobiography, an elaborate, dizzying accumulation of memories and moves, tour stories and sonic endurance.
Better Do it Now Before You Die Later, by Sonny Simmons wi…
Remembering the late singer's suave, swagger, and sweetness.
D'Angelo performs at the Aire Crown Theater in Chicago, April 2000. Courtesy Getty Images. Photo: Paul Natkin / WireImage.
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In a new live album, protest music that proves the regenerative power of naming and withholding names.
Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople, by Saul Williams and C…
Angst, check. Complaints, check. Perfectly listenable slow jams, check. Guaranteed obsolescence, check.
$ome $exy $ongs 4 U, by Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR,
OVO Sound, Santa Anna, Republic Rec…
Inventiveness and invocation in the Brooklyn rapper's thirteenth album.
Showbiz!, by MIKE, 10k
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Don't be a clown, don't be a clone either. "MIKE
Showbiz! dangl…
Trapped between faith and disillusionment, the late rapper's final album is a viciously gentle and yearning gospel of one.
The Thief Next to Jesus, by Ka, Iron Works
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In the composer’s second album, the poetry of continuums connects the past with new beginnings.
Endlessness, by Nala Sinephro, Warp Records
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A new podcast commemorating the thirty-year anniversary of the musician’s death prompts a closer look at the journals he left behind.
Kurt Cobain during the taping of MTV Unplugged: N…
In Cowboy Carter, the Queen Bey presiding over the end of empire is also preparing for the next new thing.
Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé,
Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records
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Revelatory songs of abandonment and abandon by the late Ethiopian composer and nun.
Souvenirs, by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Mississippi Records
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The rapper's latest album, Pink Friday 2, demonstrates the
jagged wound of moving on.
Pink Friday 2, by Nicki Minaj,
Young Money Entertainment and Republic Records
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The singer celebrates heartbreak with a vengeance in her third studio album, I Killed Your Dog.
I Killed Your Dog, by L'Rain, Mexican Summer
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When it feels safe t…
A tribute to all that we owe to the late, great queen of rock and roll.
Tina Turner and Ikettes perform for Bolic Sound KMET Broadcast, May 1973. Courtesy Warner Bros. Discovery.
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