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A Short History of Stax Records

Working in a record store, we get a lot of promotional stuff; posters, pins, stickers, whoopie cushions…whatever the labels think will get people talking about their artists. We also get T-Shirts. They are generally XL (record store nerds are generally big dudes, I guess), but over the years, I’ve collected a nice little handful of [...]

Ladies First

This video for “Ladies First” by Queen Latifah and Monie Love has been absent from YouTube for the last couple of years due to legal mumbo-jumbo, so when I saw that it was back up, I had to share it. Queen Latifah has been a source of inspiration for a long time and this video [...]

Humans & Music

Watch in amazement as Bobby McFerrin taps into the inherent human understanding of music, and without a word, draws an entire audience into his world. If your exposure to Bobby McFerrin’s music begins and ends with that one hit from the 80s, do yourself a favor and dig a little deeper. He is a compositional [...]

10 Things You Should Know About the Extraordinary Nina Simone

There is more to Nina Simone than you could ever learn from a little list like this. She was truly one of the great artists of her time; not only an exceptional songwriter and musician, but a dedicated activist and outspoken advocate for freedom. If you already know Nina’s music, you know what I’m talking [...]

The Album Leaf: There Is a Wind

The other night I put on a record I hadn’t heard before by a group called the Album Leaf. Glad to be home—out of the rain, and away from the madness of the world—I sat down to give the album, entitled A Chorus of Storytellers, a proper listen. When it came time to flip the [...]

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