I’ve been busy the past month with all kinds of writing assignments and that’s slowed me down from posting here but thought I’d share a few pieces I published since it’s all very much Soul Sides-inspired/related:
Songs We Love: Charles Bradley, ‘Things We Do For Love’
For NPR.org (Mar. 17, 2016)
Songs We Love: Million Dollar Ecstacy, ‘Burning Inside’
For NPR.org (Mar. 31, 2016)
We like it like that: the songs that defined New York City’s boogaloo craze
(Annotated Playlist)
For The Guardian (Apr. 5, 2016)
Songs We Love: J Dilla, ‘F*** The Police‘
For NPR.org (Apr. 7, 2016)
that million dollar xstasy track is god awful. this current obsession with boogie has unearthed a lot of junk.
imho – there’s about 40 or 50 great boogie funk songs and maybe 20 or 30 great “modern” boogie tracks made over the last 5 to 10 years
the rest should be buried