HeyJaredMichael Dwyer
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How Aja Monet traded poetry slams for Grammy nods (opens the original)
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Aja Monet’s college report said she’d “walk through snow in flip-flops to get to a poetry reading”. That was before jazz gave her words wings. The Brooklyn poet’s recorded debut with trumpeter Chief Adjuah earned a Grammy nomination in 2024. Her imminent Australian tour follows her second, The Color of Rain, co-produced with Meshell Ndegeocello and Justin Brown. With guests including singer Georgia Anne Muldrow and harpist Brandee Younger, it draws soul and hip-hop into conversations about love,
Childhood beatings and a scarf set ablaze: the origin of Joe Jackson’s fury (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Joe Jackson’s fury is easy to trace. Jeering “hardnuts” of hometown Portsmouth roughed him up on the school bus, set fire to his scarf and scratched up his violin – these were the everyday skirmishes in a bleak working class seaside upbringing. He remembers one night earlier still when his father sat on his bed after one of his regular beatings to explain that he still loved him. “I couldn’t have
How cultural cringe, isolation and a surfer with ‘zero interest in clothes’ shaped Split Enz’s distinctive look (opens the original)
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From clown-influenced early costumes to asymmetrical distortions and curtain fabrics, New Zealand band Split Enz was known as much for their striking look as their music. The band’s visual architect and percussionist Noel Crombie, in this extract from new book, Split Enz: An Adventure in Music and Design, describes his inspirations and process to journalist Michael Dwyer. “I had no idea about fashion,” Crombie says. “I was a surfer before I went to art school. One outfit: corduroy jeans and a fl
This festival’s headline act died in 2021 – but he’ll still be performing (opens the original)
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Alvin Lucier’s afterlife is “a dark space; very meditative and sort of respectful,” says University of Western Australia artist Matt Gingold, one of the late American composer’s … let’s say custodians. “When you walk in, you see these brass plates that are very beautiful and handmade, and you hear these sounds like gongs.” The plates are responding to electrical activity from organic matter grown from Lucier’s donated white blood cells, visible inside a plinth in the darkness. “People lean over
Doja Cat brought Kenny G to the VMAs — now pop music needs to bring back the sax (opens the original)
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“I’m gonna buy a saxophone.” The tone in my gig buddy’s voice was part “damn the torpedoes” and part “tell Laura I love her”. He knew the risks. This was incendiary stuff for a professional rock musician so he said it discreetly, as Paul Von Mertens from the Pet Sounds Band expertly rearranged the oxygen in the hall. The sight of a saxophone hero at the lip of the pop stage is a rare thing these days. It’s why Doja Cat exhuming Kenny G caused such a splash at last year’s VMA Awards. It’s how Ber
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