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Martyrization as nationalism and the best MLK tribute in song
It's the best because the singers are children and not yet hypocrites
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On Mo' Gin/Sunday Psalm V. 3
D'Angelo singing gospel and my exclusive interview with his best friend from Richmond
Jan 18
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It be your own family
On the unbreakable tensions in the new Jim Jarmusch film
Jan 14
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Sunday Song V. 2
Abbey Lincoln's cover of Stevie Wonder's Love Having You Around and meeting Stevie at a party in New York
Jan 12
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Diva/Fatigue in Adrian Piper and Mariah Carey
The invocations in their early works and a recent auction of Mariah's 1988 demo
Jan 8
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Sunday Song
A posthumously released John Coltrane composition, psalm 1 of his centennial year
Jan 5
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Editor's note
The stakes of jazz to come and some of my intentions here for the year of the fire horse
Jan 2
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December 2025
Seance or,
Three calls to prayer on the end of the year: Justin Bieber, Timothée Chalamet, D'Angelo
Dec 29, 2025
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Meditations
Tone poem with Toni Morrison and James Baldwin
Dec 27, 2025
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A Christmas Carol from D'Angelo
Scrooged variations, newly leaked D'Angelo, Sun Ra on angels
Dec 25, 2025
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Cry Variations, 2025
Elegy and celebration for what's come and gone this year
Dec 20, 2025
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Keith LaMar/Cypress Hill
The year's most important jazz album and a hip hop track from 1991
Dec 16, 2025
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