The story of an Ohio DJ’s doomed attempt to create his very own Motown.
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Fear and loathing on the campaign trail
After months of fairly solid listening, I can say with some confidence the name Donald Trump does not cross the lips of either member of Run The Jewels for the length of RTJ4, their mid-year album from which “walking in the snow ” comes. But the omission is much the same as the absence of the …
Bad Romance
In news that’s been my greatest source of cheer in the last few weeks, my proper employer, Crikey has started a new series called “Yesterdays Papers”, a fortnightly series of topical themed playlists. Our first theme is, of course, Bad Romance, after the incredible revelations that New South Wales’ first premier to be untainted by …
Cable Ties Far Enough
An incredibly delayed look at a record that sounds like Melbourne feels right now.
John Prine
And I always will remember these words my daddy saidHe said, ‘Buddy, when you’re dead, you’re a dead pecker-head’. I hope to prove him wrong. John Prine When I get to Heaven There was something nastily appropriate about it. The day after my worried observation that in the age of coronavirus, Bob Dylan and his …
Nostalgia, crises and ‘Murder Most Foul’
As the man himself says: beyond here lies nothing.
Lucky Oceans
Lucky Oceans‘ new single, an exquisite, haunting take on Hank Williams Ramblin’ Man with Kasey and Bill Chambers gives me a good excuse to talk about his other legacy, and what it has meant to me. I was fortunate enough to do a bit of work on Lucky’s unmatched and irreplaceable world music show The …
Little Brother: May the Lord Watch
Hip Hop is now old enough as a genre to have several generations of “back in my day” conservatives among its fans — people who believe that, by astounding coincidence, the genre produced its great work during the period which they first started listening, and all mutations since represent an unnecessary distortion of something that …
TGIF, AM I RIGHT
I’m sure you got it — Theme in Each song in yesterday’s playlist was a big iconic sample, usually used in a song that became far more famous than the original. For fun and completeness reasons: here’s the corresponding songs, arranged in the same order. Little shout outs due in particular to Montell Jordan, the …
Thursday. What a concept.
Thursday is themed playlist day at Dancing to Architecture. Today’s is a fun one, and a two parter. You will no doubt pick the theme after two or three songs — if that — but I won’t spoil the fun by telling you before you’ve listened. Regardless of whether this combination of songs makes sense …
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