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Killer Mike: Pain and Champagne
Returning to the roots of Southern rap, Killer Mike found his own extraordinary future. Despite it’s mythology, Stankonia is actually just a big studio in a plain office building on a particularly non-descript stretch of … read more »
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Beastie Boys: New Slang
Today, Beastie Boys MC Adam Yauch aka MCA passed away. In this feature from 2004′s FADER #23, Eric Ducker remembers his first encounter with the group’s music and considers their wide influence. A postscript to … read more »
Groove Theory: Beck and D’Angelo
Today, it was announced that D’Angelo will give his first US performance in ten years, this summer at the Essence Music Festival. To celebrate, we’re looking back more than a decade into our archives at … read more »
Footnotes: Philip Glass Scores
For this year’s Icon Issue, it quickly became clear that we couldn’t possibly cover every single piece of work Philip Glass has made. But in talking to his friends, collaborators and people influenced by him, … read more »
New Music: An Interview with Philip Glass
Philip Glass discusses 75 years of staying fresh. Dressed in a long sleeve black T-shirt and blue jeans, Philip Glass eases onto a couch in a corner room of his spacious Dunvagen studio. A few … read more »
Free Space: Chinatown NYC
Styling: Mobolaji Dawodu. Shot in and around photographer Sandy Kim’s Chinatown apartment in New York.
Striking a Chord: Eight New Musicians Look at the Wide Influence of Philip Glass
TYONDAI BRAXTON: Figures like Philip Glass helped to tie classical culture to the modern age. The connection he made was profound and helped usher in a new way of looking at music of hundreds of … read more »
Work in Progress: An Oral History of Philip Glass
Over the course of his decades-long career, Philip Glass has cast a wide net of friends and collaborators. From his start as the art world’s musical darling, composing minimalist works in lofts in the ’70s, … read more »
Theory of Relativity: Director Robert Wilson on Einstein on the Beach
On the eve of Einstein on the Beach’s revival, director Robert Wilson revisits his seminal collaboration with Philip Glass. A long opera with no plot, Einstein on the Beach is the brainchild of Philip Glass … read more »
