Matthew Shipp
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Books
Scene And Not Heard: Jesse Rifkin’s Playlist For NYC’s Lost Music Spaces
The new book by Jesse Rifkin, *This Must Be the Place* tracks the rise and fall of music scenes and the places that gave them succour. In his author playlist, he picks out 11 key tracks that exemplify those scenes, from the Greenwich Village folk revival to early 00s Brooklyn noise-rock, via loft jazz, punk rock, hip hop and more
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Baker's Dozen
Low End Theories: Palehorse’s Favourite Bass Albums
Before their appearance at Desertfest at the Camden Underworld this weekend, uber-heavy bass guitar maestros James Bryant and John Atkins of Palehorse salute their favourite bass albums with Kiran Acharya (and even include one that has no bass guitar at all)
Black Sky Thinking
Overview Of A Vampire: A Closer Look At The Weeknd’s Lyrics
John Calvert is a "guilt-ridden ultra-fan" of "misogynist" Canadian R&B star The Weeknd and here, instead of brushing the themes of his music under the carpet or attempting to explain them away as 'theatre', he takes a forensic look at his lyrical content
Black Sky Thinking
Windrush & Anti-Semitism: When Politicians Play With Fire, Minorities Get Burned
As the headlines are dominated by the cruel treatment of the Windrush Generation and Labour's issues with Anti-Semitism, David Bennun argues that politicians of all stripes must be held responsible (photo Wikipedia Commons)
