Friday, August 5th
summer in the city
Digable Planets, “Pacifics” (“N.Y. Is Red Hot”), live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/16/16
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: hip-hop
2016
Friday, June 24th
what’s new
Wyclef Jean, “Hendrix,” 6/17/16
2016
Wednesday, January 6th
sounds of Nigeria
Wizkid, “Ojuelegba,” 2014 (audio) – 2015 (video)
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Remix featuring Drake and Skepta, 2015
2016
Tuesday, January 5th
sounds of Cameroon
Jovi, “Zélé,” 2015
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reading table
Maybe you go looking for one thing and find another.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Don Quixote (translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman; internal quotation marks omitted)
2015
Thursday, November 26th
two takes
Lee Morgan (trumpet) with Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Harold Mabern (piano), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Billy Higgins (drums), “Yes I Can, No You Can’t,” 1966
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S. Mos, mash-up (Tupac Shakur, “Holler If Ya Hear Me” [1993]), 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
And everything turns and turns
and the unknown turns into the song
that is the known, but what in turn
becomes of the song is not for us to say—Mark Strand (1934-2014), “The Webern Variations,” excerpt
2015
Saturday, November 14th
what’s new
Missy Elliott, “WTF (Where They From),” 11/12/15
2015
Tuesday, September 8th
sounds of Yemen, and Uganda, and Colombia, and Cambodia
The Real Hip-Hop, 2015
2015
Friday, August 7th
summer in the city
Run the Jewels, “Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck),” live (feat. Zack de la Rocha), Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/19/15
2015
Monday, April 20th
what’s new
Kendrick Lamar, “King Kunta” (video, 4/15; To Pimp a Butterfly, 3/15)
2015
Saturday, January 24th
what’s new
Shabazz Palaces, “Forerunner Foray” (video by Chad VanGaalen), 1/9/15
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lagniappe
passings
Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs infielder (SS, 1B), January 31, 1931-January 23, 2015
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