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Androgyny at Its Best
In the songs that bookend this playlist, which are separated by a decade, Prince cheekily reports, “I just can’t believe all the things people say/Am I black or white? Am I straight…
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What’s This Playlist All About? The mastermind behind the airy, intimate sounds of The xx offers up a head-nodding mix ideal for throwing your own little dance party in your living room.…
Konradsen’s Playlist
Made up of vocalist and pianist Jenny Marie Sabel and multi-instrumentalist Eirik Vildgren, Norwegian duo Kondradsen make soft music that soothes with the freshness of a minty balm. Minimalist piano and synths…
The Other Sides of Little Richard
No sentient human needs to be informed about Little Richard’s place in the rock ’n’ roll pantheon. The songs he recorded for Specialty Records in the ’50s were the seeds from which…
Children of Kraftwerk
When Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter—two denizens of Germany’s musical underground—founded Kraftwerk in 1970, nobody could have imagined the impact they would have. But all these decades later, few corners of popular…
Unplugged & Immortal: The Best Live Acoustic Performances
The great irony about the MTV Unplugged phenomenon of the…
Out of the Stacks: ’90s College Radio Staples Still At It
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Concrete and Snare Drums: DJ Premier’s 25 Best Beats
There’s an amazing story that DJ Premier relates near the…
The Best Britpop Deep Cuts and Forgotten Faves
“Everybody hates a tourist,” a wise, skinny man once sang.…
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anil Dash Teach You a Thing About New Jack Swing
On January 4, famed technologist Anil Dash and playwright Lin-Manuel…
Questlove’s Top 50 Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
On Questlove’s list of his favorite 50 hip-hop songs, he…
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Made up of vocalist and pianist Jenny Marie Sabel and…
