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May 21, 2026
Nasir Jones dropped his 1994 debut Illmatic as a living legend. And his use of several superstar producers on the same album set a hip-hop precendent that forever changed the game. Ever the visionary, Nas found stratospheric...
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May 21, 2026
Andrew Scott talks with guitarists Phil Upchurch and Cornell Dupree, and Atlantic Records producer Arif Mardin to help demythologize Donny Hathaway’s 1974 live masterpiece.
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May 14, 2026
In 1971, New York City was going through a Dickensian “worst of times” scenario that included the rising crime rate that turned the streets into a bleak landscape of muggers, purse snatchers, and addicts plotting...
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May 14, 2026
August 25, 2001. It was the last weekend before Labor Day and the sidewalks of New York City were brimming with Saturday-night folks looking for fun. While a decade before the Meatpacking District was literally...
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May 14, 2026
As the 1960s faded away and the ’70s shattered the veneer of innocence, three equally talented artists—Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash—shed their Bluebelles name, swapped their floor-length dresses in favor of denim, and...
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May 14, 2026
Funkadelic’s America Eats Its Young was a purposeful message to the youth of the United States. In 1972, that younger generation was facing conscription into a war in Vietnam that had become increasingly senseless and...
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May 14, 2026
Miles Davis was called one of “the best dressed men of the twentieth century” by both GQ and Esquire magazines. Looking sharp in his Brooks Brothers suits during his Birth of the Cool era, he...
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May 13, 2026
I am sitting at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, waiting for Paul McCartney to take the stage, staring at the jumbo screen flashing pictures from his long career and wondering how anyone could...
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May 13, 2026
What we discovered was PMA was really the Great Spirit,” says bassist and Bad Brains founding member Darryl Jenifer. “The [ideas in the] book Think and Grow Rich worked for Andrew Carnegie back in the Industrial...
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