Fruit Bats (aka Eric D. Johnson) will release a two-disc 20th anniversary compilation, Sometimes a Cloud Is Just a Cloud: Slow Growers, Sleeper Hits and Lost Songs (2001–2021), on January 28 via Merge ...
Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of ...
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina sent poet Andrei Codrescu into a creative fury. He dashed off a slew of disaster-inspired lyrics. He shares with us "The Mold Song." Jonathan Flalich of the New ...
Black America has a long and winding history of using songs for defiance and consolation. Testimonies from slave ship sailors recall how kidnapped Africans during the Atlantic slave trade sang to send ...
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