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Ripping off Black Masks
Diddy and the Dandies in Review
May 9
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Yo mama so wounded
The mother wound in music, and in us
May 4
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April 2025
Variations on the Killing Floor Blues
On Sinners (the film) and Haints—the saints are dead
Apr 28
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Harmony Holiday
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What Love?
Notes on the week in music staring Mingus and his Shadow
Apr 26
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Harmony Holiday
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What Love?
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No Freaks At The Festival
My first big music festival, my last charade, and the early vs. latter days of Coachella
Apr 22
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Harmony Holiday
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No Freaks At The Festival
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Hard Time Sensuality
The importance of being more like Pam Grier in Jackie Brown
Apr 5
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Harmony Holiday
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March 2025
All Rendered Truth
Some Lonnie Holley archives
Mar 27
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Harmony Holiday
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The Disappearance of Onijah Robinson
Another prisoner of love.
Mar 15
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Harmony Holiday
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Crying in the Club, Take 1
Some notes on Nina Simone singing spirituals at home on secret rehearsal tapes, and a new music biography book club I'm launching, beginning with her…
Mar 13
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Harmony Holiday
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Handler's Remorse
A prose poem about strange musics, strange magic
Mar 4
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Harmony Holiday
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February 2025
I thought we had a nice space to think in
Meditations on the reprise of David Hammons' Concerto in Black and Blue, the spirit of Roberta Flack, the blues themselves
Feb 27
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Harmony Holiday
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My Show is On
The one about how everyone tried to shame the revolutionary spirit using its most convincing imposters. On Kendrick and Ye and Nina Simone and Donald…
Feb 20
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Harmony Holiday
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