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Toro Y Moi Drives Into His Next Chapter On New Album ‘Mahal’

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Toro Y Moi Drives Into His Next Chapter On New Album 'Mahal'

By Mia Hughes In Toro y Moi’s music video for “Postman,” the first single from his seventh and newest album Mahal, he sits behind the wheel of a loudly ornamented jeepney. A kind of eccentric […]

A perfect song: Gladys Knight’s “Midnight Train to Georgia”

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A singing group of one woman and three men, all dressed in white, performs onstage.

This essay is adapted from Danyel Smith’s new book, “Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop.” My questions have never changed. Been asking since L.A. was new to me. Since my […]