Matana Roberts The multi-talented craftswoman talks chaos, labor, and new album “COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis”

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The multi-talented craftswoman talks chaos, labor, and new album “COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis”

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Released in October on Constellation, COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis chronicles Matana Roberts’s continued exploration of histories of violence and dispossession, kinship, and avant composition techniques.

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Hannah Diamond releases instrumental versions of Reflections

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Hannah Diamond releases instrumental versions of Reflections

STOP THE PRESSES!!!

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2010s: Favorite Video Game Music of the Decade

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"Gaming Day" by EnviouSLAY

We are celebrating the end of the decade through lists, essays, and mixes. Join us as we explore the music that helped define the decade for us. More from this series

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Video games? Those don’t exist! OK, they might exist. But in the context of music journalism, they might as well be a complete fabrication. Music composed for this medium tends to be ignored by our medium. (Certain exceptions notwithstanding.) But why must it? Is it because some critics simply don’t like video games?

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Ariana Grande doesn’t really have to announce new Sweetener Tour live album, because Instagram

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Ariana Grande doesn't really have to announce new Sweetener Tour live album, because Instagram

Hey, lookit! Here comes another barely adequate micro-dose for all of us pathetic news-addicts!

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Blood Orange announces 2020 North American tour

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Blood Orange announces 2020 North American tour

CRAZY!!

MERE *SECONDS* (in evolutionary time) after getting home from all THESE dates (and then announcing this other thing really quick), Blood Orange — a.k.a. Dev “The Refrigerator” Hynes — has unveiled eight (count ‘em, eight!) North American tour dates in March of 2020.

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Brunhild Ferrari and Jim O’Rourke collaborate on new album for Black Truffle

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Brunhild Ferrari and Jim O'Rourke collaborate on new album for Black Truffle
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Better get out there and find yourself a tux and cummerbund and girdle and hoop-skirt and whatever-the-hell else a member of the elite class wears: because Oren Ambarchi’s Black Truffle label is kicking off it’s first release of 2020 IN STYLE.

Seriously. Like: FERRARI-level style.

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RIP: Juice WRLD

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RIP: Juice WRLD

Shocking news. Juice WRLD is reported dead at 21. From TMZ:

Juice Wrld, the talented young rapper and singer whose career was just taking off, is dead after suffering a seizure in Chicago’s Midway airport … TMZ has learned.

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♫♪  Guest Mix: ZULI - We Are All Anemic

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To listen to ZULI’s We Are All Anemic mix is to be confronted by decay. Sliding across an arid terrain, its sounds move, but with a momentum that is staggered, labored. The force of entropy is taking hold. Rough trenches wound its territory, their depths unthinkable. In the air whorl clouds of sonic debris: old computers, satellite parts, strange alloys. Across an hour of sound, we toggle between depth and surface, contemplation and distraction interwoven in noise, bearing witness to a fading geography.

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SOPHIE and Juliana Huxtable join forces for new project Analemma, share track

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SOPHIE and Juliana Huxtable join forces for new project Analemma, share track

Happy…uhh…Saint Nicolas Day? Wha?

Well, whatever. Either way: SOPHIE (whom you’ve previously been Pavlovian-conditioned to like) and Juliana Huxtable (whom you’ve previously been Confirmation-biased to like) have just JOINED fucking FORCES to create a new duo called Analemma. (I know this because Tyler knows this.)

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Richard Dawson 2020

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Styles: ethnography, Middle England, “Remain”
Others: a more laid-back Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

One of the tendencies that artists most frequently regress to when “authoring” grand narratives is the overemphasis on the individual or group of individuals — i.e., protagonist(s) — who, following the customary narrative plot structure, play a role in the resolution of the main challenge that guides the narrative to its climax.

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