29 Black Music Documentaries for Black History Month 2020
For Black History Month 2020, we are showcasing films and videos featuring Black American artists. Enjoy them and learn about the origin of each Black music legend featured.
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Codeine Club Music: 10 Sizzurp Rappers and Their Lean Lyrics
Southern Houston rappers put a twist on old blues musicians’ mix of cough syrup and booze and stirred it up into a more dangerous concoction. Here are 10 rappers who took the brew from their double-cups and dropped the purple drank / sizzurp / Texas tea / “lean” into their lyrics to mixed effect.
‘A&R Pioneers’ Highlights Unsung Pivotal Figures at the Birth of Recorded Pop Music
Well before artists were their own entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs became rock stars, A&R pros improvised a blueprint for the workings of the modern music industry.
Supersonic Festival 2018 Highlights the Best in Experimental Music
The prominent Birmingham music festival Supersonic returned for three days of experimental goodness, partly curated this year by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.
Zeshan B Honors Family and Soul Music in Insightful 20 Questions
In which Zeshan Bagewadi expresses his love for his family, soul music, his city of Chicago, and assless chaps.
On ‘Art Sex Music’ and Working as an Avant-Garde Artist with Genesis P-Orridge
Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions’ Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Art Sex Music reminds that the destructive forces of misogyny and exploitation infiltrate even the most admired of forward-thinking movements.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the Continuing High Cost of Fashion
The poor workplace conditions that led to this tragedy have been outsourced to places like Bangladesh, where similar factory tragedies happened as recently as 2013.
New Order: Presents Be Music
A comprehensive, if scattershot, compendium or Sumner, Hook, and the Other Two's production work -- and then some.
The 12 Best World Music Albums of 2016
There’s no short list that can be truly comprehensive of all the music in a single country, much less a planet, but there are always a few promising places to start.
Music with a Capital “M”: An Interview With Ethan Iverson of the Bad Plus
The Bad Plus may be known for their revisionist covers of pop songs, but pianist Ethan Iverson proudly reflects on jazz’s past and shares his hopes and fears about its future.
Factory Floor: 25 25
Factory Floor take their minimalist aesthetic to dramatic new extremes on their second studio album of retro house music.
Pop Music and the Demise of Genre
Is musical genre outdated in today's Network Society? Or might it be harnessed for democratic ends?
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