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Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

I'm pretty sure Meaghan Garvey was the first person I saw post the link. You know the one: cartoon woman superimposed over a grain elevator, two hours and change, no demarcations. If you've made it here you probably even clicked it yourself--if not, take a minute:

Heavy Drifting

Heavy Drifting

You could walk the town I grew up in from end to end in roughly 45 minutes. I rarely had to go that far--most of my friends lived within 20. The building that housed both the middle and high school was closer to 17 minutes away; I walked there and

Juicy J "Name It After Me / Outro (feat. Frayser Boy)"

Juicy J "Name It After Me / Outro (feat. Frayser Boy)"

The thing you have to understand is that the Oscar wasn't guaranteed. The first rap song to win the award was "Lose Yourself" in 2002, in the midst of Eminem's imperial phase, written by the best-selling rapper of all time for a loosely adapted

Memphis Halloween Mix

Memphis Halloween Mix

In the waning weeks of 2019, right around the time I forgot to cancel a free week-long trial of Shudder after I’d signed up to watch One Cut of the Dead, I started poking around the strange world of 90s Memphis rap. This dovetailed rather nicely with a newfound

Uncle Rich (1963 - 2023)

Uncle Rich (1963 - 2023)

Some of my first memories with my Uncle Rich are of his car. When I was growing up on Long Island he would drive down from Philadelphia in a mustard-yellow sedan–outfitted with more stereo equipment than most people ever put in a home in their lifetime–to “crank tunes.

Steve Hiett "Never Find a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)"

Steve Hiett "Never Find a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)"

In the early 1960s, Steve Hiett was studying at the Royal College of Art in London when his friend Dave called him up. Dave knew a band called The Pretty Things who had a gig that night and whose guitar player had fallen ill; he also knew Hiett played the

Textasy "Hot '94 Summer Megamix"

Textasy "Hot '94 Summer Megamix"

For roughly three weeks now in New York City, the temperature has hovered around 87 degrees Fahrenheit. You wouldn't say it's unseasonably humid--this is plenty seasonable--but it's unbearable nevertheless. The city's denizens crank the A/C, break out the fans, and glumly