Archive - Black Music and Black Muses

April 2025

Variations on the Killing Floor Blues

On Sinners (the film) and Haints—the saints are dead

Apr 28 •

Harmony Holiday

Notes on the week in music staring Mingus and his Shadow

Apr 26 •

Harmony Holiday

No Freaks At The Festival

My first big music festival, my last charade, and the early vs. latter days of Coachella

Apr 22 •

Harmony Holiday

Hard Time Sensuality

The importance of being more like Pam Grier in Jackie Brown

Apr 5 •

Harmony Holiday

March 2025

All Rendered Truth

Some Lonnie Holley archives

Mar 27 •

Harmony Holiday

The Disappearance of Onijah Robinson

Another prisoner of love.

Mar 15 •

Harmony Holiday

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 •

Harmony Holiday

Handler's Remorse

A prose poem about strange musics, strange magic

Mar 4 •

Harmony Holiday

February 2025

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