Monday, April 16th
what’s new
Talib Kweli, “All of Us” (feat. Jay Electronica, Yummy Bingham), 4/13/18
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hip-hop
2018
Friday, March 23rd
what’s new
August Greene (Common, vocals; Robert Glasper, keyboards; Karriem Riggins, drums; et al.) with guest singers Samora Pinderhughes, Maimouna Youssef, Brandy, Andra Day, live, Washington, D.C., 2/21/18
2018
Monday, March 19th
what’s new
Big K.R.I.T. (aka Rodney Carmichael), live, Washington, D.C., 3/5/18
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lagniappe
reading table
father and son
go their separate ways…
blossom viewing—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), 1820 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2018
Saturday, February 17th
what’s new
The Crossrhodes, live (“Footprints on the Moon,” “How You Gon’ Fall,” “Praying Prayers,” “America”), Washington, D.C., 2/9/18
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lagniappe
random sights
today, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Friday, February 2nd
more
Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, live, Washington, D.C. 2016
2017
Monday, November 27th
what’s new
Talib Kweli, “Traveling Light” (feat. Anderson .Paak), 11/17/17
2017
Saturday, August 26th
what’s new
The Roots and Bilal, “It Ain’t Fair,” live (Tonight Show), 8/7/17
2017
Friday, August 25th
summer in the city
Run the Jewels (with guest), “Legend Has It,” live, Chicago (Lollapalooza), 8/4/17
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lagniappe
random sights: yesterday, Chicago
2017
Tuesday, June 27th
Do you listen to contemporary rap and R&B?
I do. I like Anderson .Paak, that’s for sure! That “Come Down” piece.
—Roscoe Mitchell (featured yesterday), New York Times, 6/23/17
Anderson .Paak, “Come Down,” 2016
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Another take.
2017
Saturday, April 1st
more
Tank and the Bangas, “Quick,” 2017
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lagniappe
reading table
It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.—Brenda Shaughnessy, “Card 12: The Hanged Man,” fragment (Our Andromeda)
