The Bootlegging, Blues Singing Star of 1930s Prison Radio
[ad_1] Filed 1:00 p.m. EDT 04.12.2026 Hattie Ellis was poised for post-prison fame. Then she encountered shotcallers who didn’t value her voice. This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by…
Why Travis Scott and T.I. Want to Stop Texas from Executing …
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. Some of the most famous rappers in the country — Travis Scott,…
Meet B. Alexis, the First Woman to Release an Album From Pri…
[ad_1] This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by incarcerated artists. Sign up now to get a new song each Sunday afternoon over 25 weeks: Listen if you like: Rapsody, Tierra Whack and Eve Freer…
Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938-2014…
[ad_1] Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, in a post on the pioneering composer of the original Doctor Who theme, we wrote that “the early era of experimental electronic music belonged to Delia Derbyshire.” Derbyshire—who…
Where Music, Culture and Community Converged
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #9: Mumbai’s Bandstands: Where Music, Culture and Community Converged For most residents of Mumbai, the word ‘bandstand’ evokes the popular image of Bandra’s seaside…
MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercial…
[ad_1] MTV still exists. At least, it still exists in the United States, or in certain of that country’s markets, for the time being. A flurry of premature obituaries recently blew through the internet after the announcement that the…
How the Homegrown ‘Young India’ Record Label Shaped India’s …
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #4: How the Homegrown ‘Young India’ Record Label Shaped India’s Sound Recording Industry The homegrown record label, ‘Young India’ shaped the…
Rotoscoped Memories Animate a Dynamic Music Video of Growth …
[ad_1] What do you want to express that you feel you can’t in everyday life? That’s the question composer and producer Max Cooper posed to his audience in hopes of unearthing some of the hidden parts of our shared emotional landscape. In return, he…
Decoding the Visual Identity and Design of Young India Recor…
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #7: Decoding the Visual Identity and Design of Young India Record Label Record collectors, like archaeologists love to dig! And just as archaeological finds reveal the…
Watch 50 David Bowie Music Videos Spanning Five Decades of R…
[ad_1] Each of us has a different idea of when, exactly, the sixties ended, not as a decade, but as a distinct cultural period. Some have a notion of the “long sixties” that extends well into the seventies; if pressed for a specific final…