Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
All these thoughts, all these ideas, coalesced into what may have been our most consistent record since Things Fall Apart. It was so unified in its message, in fact, that one of the songs we thought would be the lead single, a track called “Birthday Girl” with Patrick Stump as a guest vocalist, had to be taken off the record. It was a topical song,
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Keir Whitaker
@keirwhitaker
“The recording part is the part that matters to me – that I’m making a document that records a piece of our culture, the life’s work of the musicians that are hiring me,” he said. “I take that part very seriously. I want the music to outlive all of us.”
theguardian.com • The Evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the Dumbest Person Is on Your Side, You’re on the Wrong Side’
I want to show the specific ways that Coltrane the person and artist used his music, work, spiritual life, identity, and community to express, indeed practice, a conception of freedom that remains useful today.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
James Earl Jones on Darth Vader, Mufasa and, natch, Totes McGotes (Published 2014)
Dave Itzkoffnytimes.com
Michael Mack
@mmack
One of those albums that lived up the hype after a decade plus hiatus. Always good to learn how these kinds of people think.
Tavis Smiley • Rare Interview with D'Angelo Part 1 of 4
Shadowheart
@philayshoest
DOMi and J D Beck are reinventing music…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJDARjzHhZE