In Profile: Culture's Two Sevens Clash
Forty-five years since its initial release, time has been nothing but kind to Culture’s groundbreaking debut. Two Sevens Clash is one of roots reggae’s…
The Misreading of Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die’ Ten Years Later
Words by Gio Musso, Rough Trade NYC "Over the past decade, we have seen the paradigm of pop culture shift towards the embrace of realism.…
In Profile: Bill Fay
"The context around a song can poison it to sensitive ears. We each have different biases that we bring with us when engaging with music.…
In Profile: Fugees
"It’s artistic tensions like these that have always been at the core of the Fugees as they bounce between feelings of happiness and fear,…
In Profile: Grizzly Bear's 'Yellow House' at 15
"Yellow House isn’t Grizzly Bear’s most essential album, nor their most popular, but it is possibly the most important to the trajectory of…
In Profile: Cody ChesnuTT's The Headphone Masterpiece
"The gospel that is The Headphone Masterpiece will be on every sinners lips and in their hearts" Vibe Magazine, 2002 A unique brand of…
In Profile: Britpop '96
"I have almost no photographic evidence I was ever there, pre-mobile, pre-internet, NOBODY took a camera out with them as it would have been the…
In Profile: William Onyeabor
"He always made sure he got the outcome he wanted, whether it was by asking something outright, or by playing these invisible chess moves. It…
In Profile: Prince
“Bring friends, bring Ur children, and bring foot spray, because … it’s gonna B funky.” A truly self made and independent genius of modern music with…