
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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Around the time Lizzo’s siblings worked at my local health food store, coincident with my two green juice runs a day itinerary in my still-ongoing faith in what Buckminster Fuller calls the eternally regenerative universe (I love Bucky’s ca...
Sun Ra, Yung Miami, Madonna, Louis Armstrong, etc.
Listening to Sun Ra’s 1955 “Can This be Love?” a seeming inversion of the Benny Goodman “This Can’t be Love,” (1938), which Ra recorded in his South Side Chicago apartment accompanied by W...
Vanished cadence of a secret world
What if every great song carries a disincarnate soul taking refuge in its notes as that spirit awaits its inevitable return to the flesh or forever. The light in the song is borrowed and burrowed and not...
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...
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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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