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Thursday, December 7, 2017

THE 50 BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2017

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[Art by Al Margen ] ✊ #RESIST The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–19...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

ᐃ b Ỹ է ∑ s__N__b Ø b s ᐁ [UPDATED]

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ART © BY KEN MOORE As was revealed by former Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra chief-of-staff Jesse Sharps at a PAFF screening last week, M...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Emergency Community Meeting @ the World Stage

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Monday, February 6, 2017

CATS IN THE BUSH

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Hi! Our brief preview of the new jazz documentary Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot (it premieres next weekend!) is now up over at the L.A...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

be not so fearful

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Do not despair -- they love it. Do not be fearful -- they thrive on it. Do not hate them -- it will make them stronger. Do not ...
Friday, January 20, 2017

"collaboration is the path from protest to power"

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Friday, January 13, 2017

∞∞ B y T e S *n* b O b S ⚄ ⚄ [UPDATED]

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all images by  ge stinson the main stem , an original dramatic script focusing on a young jazz saxophonist who escapes denton, tx for...
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Matthew Duersten
A Wisconsin-born freelance writer now based in the great city of El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles, his pieces have been included in the anthologies Da Capo Best Music Writing and L.A. Now. He first entered the blogosphere in 2006 with the music site Downbeast, an offshoot of the L.A. indie-jazz label Cryptogramophone. He was also a senior editor of Glue magazine and has written for numerous publications including L.A. Weekly, No Depression, All About Jazz, Variety, Los Angeles magazine, Time Out-New York, Flaunt, Oxford-American, Black Book, New Times, Extraordinary, and more. Currently, he is working on a book for Asahina & Wallace publishers on L.A.'s underground jazz scene.
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