Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train Keeps on Rollin’
Certain books make you dream; Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train wakes you up to the blunt fact that you are alive and living in an ever-rollin’ mythology.
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Buscrates Brings Real Heart and Soul to Vintage Synth-Funk
In crafting his own brand of hip-hop-inspired instrumental funk, Buscrates proves on his latest album he’s a student of the great producers who’ve come before.
Sly and the Family Stone: Live at the Fillmore East
On these two days in 1968, Sly and the Family Stone sounded like a perpetual motion machine far too powerful to ever break down.
Textbook Oppositions and Alternatives: Re-Thinking the Role of Race in 1960s Rock and Soul Music
More numerous than even general African-American music history textbooks, rock music history textbooks mark 1960s rock as “white” and soul as “black”, using language that sometimes unintentionally values rock over soul in racist ways.