Lost Ladies of Country #1: “Mistress” Mary Afton
Fans of country-rock won’t be strangers to Clarence White’s name. In addition to earning the distinction of second longest-serving member of the Byrds – just af...
Category: Music History
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo- Black Screen Images and the (e)motive Notion of Freakiness: Vaginal Davis Lectures at Time Based Art Festival 2018
PICA’s Time Based Art Festival (TBA) 2018 had the privilege to host a lecture by the multifaceted artist Vaginal Davis. Davis is a black punk feminist evocative...
Oh Aimee, Oh Tracey! – An appreciation of my favorite sad albums by ‘Til Tuesday and Everything But the Girl
It’s kind of heartbreaking to get a love letter returned to you. Even worse if it’s been set on fire and placed under the windshield wiper of your car. I receiv...
Interview with Frank Izuora of Question Mark
The following interview was transcribed from a broadcast on July, 21st 8-10am Freeform Portland, Weekend Family Music Hour. We had the privilege to interview or...
5 Gifted Child Musicians and Their Bands
The pedagogy of musical literacy is important to childhood development. Music incorporates sensations including hearing, movement and emotionality. Music...
5 Asian Cover Gems Celebrating English as a Second Language
As an immigrant to the United States who is Chinese and born in Australia, I appreciate the linguistic synthesization of people who also have the experience of ...
The 500 Covers of Ron Clyne: A Prospective Look at Smithsonian Folkways Design
Ron Clyne (1925-2006) was a Chicago born, Brooklyn based freelance graphic designer and painter who fashioned approximately 500 Smithsonian Folkways covers sta...
Remembering Earthman Kelan Phil Cohran
Kelan Phil Cohran (May 8, 1927-June 28, 2017) was an influential jazz musician, composer, civil rights activist, inventor, educator, artist, philosopher, astron...
Nigerian Afrobeat & Disco: The Women
No doubt many social factors prevented women artists from being recorded in Nigeria during the emerging 1970s pop scene. One was the disreputable view of musici...
Keeping Up with the Jones – Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami
In Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami (2017), director Sophie Fiennes follows Jones, documenting her from 2008 while she was recording her last album, Hurricane...