MINOR AT HEART
Listening and links: 35 years of Cypress Hill’s debut
Links! Close listens to Cypress Hill’s 1991 debut LP, reading about Lisette Model’s jazz photography, and more.
Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins and Wolverhampton’s sound systems, 1978
The V&A East’s “The Music Is Black: A British Story” doesn’t shy away from probing the effects that widespread anti-immigrant sentiment have had on Black British music culture and artistry over the years. It includes an evocative photo shot by Chris Steele-Perkins in Wolverhampton in 1978.
Listening and links: Wayne Shorter, Danceteria, more
Links! Tom Moon on Wayne Shorter, a Vanity Fair oral history of Danceteria, and more.
John Coltrane’s modal jazz and The Grateful Dead
The early 1960s-era work of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane had an important impact on the Grateful Dead.
Behind the hip hop flyers of the 1970s: Art Deco, comics, and more
JSTOR Daily looks at how Art Deco influenced the young graffiti artists and graphic designers of New York and their flyers for pivotal proto-hip hop parties in ‘70s-era Bronx.
A connection to time and space
Rome, Italy-based label owner and lifelong record hound Pierpaolo De Sanctis talks to Dust & Grooves.
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Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY. His criticism and features have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Reader, Hyperallergic, and more. Get in touch.