Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest talks with Noisey editor Kyle Kramer about Tribe’s sixth and final album, the importance of art, the evolution of hip-hop, and missing Phife Dawg.
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A Thousand Feet Per Second: OK Computer’s Sublime Velocity
On the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer, Anwen Crawford writes an analysis of — and love letter to — the album that “manages to suspend time at the speed of sound.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quote Posts
The Roots of Cowboy Music: ‘This Is the Music We Made. This Is the Land We Made.’
Oakland writer Carvell Wallace travels to Elko, Nevada, for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and reflects on what it means to be black and American.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
A History of American Protest Music: How The Hutchinson Family Singers Achieved Pop Stardom with an Anti-Slavery Anthem
“Get Off the Track!” borrowed the melody of a racist hit song and helped give a public voice to the abolitionist movement.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Milo. Kind of Our Fault.
“…the ferocious pace of change in media at that point, and the need for novelty, for an answer, any answer, meant that a character like Milo (a charismatic conservative chameleon) could walk right in.”
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Breaking Elgar’s Enigma: Cryptographic Genius or Crackpot?
In New Republic, Daniel Estrin writes about how a former insurance adjuster claims to have solved the 118-year-old cryptographic mystery of the hidden message in Edward Elgar’s infamous Enigma Variations.
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How New Edition Avoided ‘Heart Break’
“The reality is, and will always be, we were in a moment. Nobody—I don’t think—really understood the history that was being made.” The members of New Edition give an oral history of the making of Heart Break, their quadruple platinum album, originally released in 1988.
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Stage Oddity: The Story of David Bowie’s Secret Final Project
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham tells the story of his unfinished musical with the late David Bowie.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
“BRAAAM!”: The Sound that Invaded the Hollywood Soundtrack
How Inception changed the way we listen to movies.
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The Story of ‘Ella and Louis,’ 60 Years Later
A century-defining album’s improbable genesis.