
Music writing that is not restricted by the demands, wishes, and timelines of the music industry. Writing, not advertising. Love, not a battle of the brands.
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Living on borrowed time the clock ticks faster — MF DOOM
Clive Davis died on Katherine Dunham’s birthday. On Octavia Butler’s birthday. Katherine Dunham and Octavia Butler share a birthday on the day Clive Davis died. I love the absurd sym...
Your wounds embossed on me, embracing me, and bossing me around some summer Sundays, they drown out the commemorative, the in-loving-memory until I’m everyone’s daughter, Persephone reviving the condition of belonging underneath and above b...
Preface to a restrained account of soulless divaism
I was asked to write about Lizzo’s new album, Bitch, but had to pull the piece from the publication, which did not give me the space and creative freedom to do so with the kind of rigor,...
Profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the beautiful …
Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Walter Benjamin
Aura farmers, t...
When I grow up, I want to be Miles Davis’s wife, I might have declared triumphantly, at the age of 7 while tucked primly into my leotard, tights, and pointe shoes like a risen sarcophagus learning to dance an afro-blues waltz to his version...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Harmony is a writer and interdisciplinary artist working across dance, film, music and archives of black culture. She’s currently finishing a biography of Abbey Lincoln, a memoir, and a new collection of poems
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