Ranging Across Time and Scale, V. Shayne Frederick Holds Office Hours at Uncle Bobbie’s
MusiQ Department Artist Vince Anthony Debuts “Hurricane” Music Video
MusiQology Rx Fundraiser for One Art Community Center
Beyoncé’s Homecoming Film Preserves and Reveres Black History
Why Country Music is So Scared of Black People
DaMaris B. Hill’s New Book is a Powerful, Wondrous Thing
(FREE SHOW) Dr. Guy Performs with Ursula Rucker this Thursday, March 14, at World Café
Hide/Melt/Ghost’s Harlem Debut is a Major Moment for Black Music Scholarship & Performance
The Time Stevie Wonder Taught White Surfers how to Dance
Music Lives with MusiQology Events in Virginia and Philadelphia
The 2019 GRAMMYs: Streaks Broken, Questions Unanswered
The 2019 MusiQology GRAMMYs Preview
Ursula Rucker Talks Womanhood and Courage in Art
I Remember Roy: Remembering Roy Hargrove
Save the Date!: Dr. Guy brings Hide/Melt/Ghost to Harlem Stage on March 9!
Happy Holidays from MusiQology!
The Encouraging 2019 GRAMMY Nominations are Just One Step in a Long Process
16 Bars is a new recurring column at MusiQology. When we want to get a sense of the discourse around a particular pop culture moment or event, we search the web, highlighting diverse voices across social media and aggregating them in a kind of thematic digital verse, with our own Genius-style annotations...
There is an old saying taken as fact among many people of color in this nation. President Obama reminded Morehouse College’s 2013 graduating class about it. Books about former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have used it as a way to explain her success. It was even said on Scandal. The saying usually...
Good Life While the lead-up was bloated, unwieldy, and inexorably behind schedule, Kanye West finally released his new album, The Life of Pablo, on Jay Z’s Tidal late Saturday evening. West held a surrealistic spectacle of a listening party at New York’s Madison Square Garden last week, with 1,200...
Langston Collin Wilkins, Ph.D. (@StreetFolkLCW) Dr. Dre means a lot to me as a hip hop head and scholar. N.W.A.’s two group albums and Dre’s first solo album, The Chronic (1992) are among my favorite records of all time. I bought The Chronic 2001 the day it came out in 1999 and it dominated...
It’s been almost two weeks since Kendrick Lamar dropped To Pimp a Butterfly (TPAB) on us and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. We are especially digging the review from friend of Musiqology, Greg Tate, for Rolling Stone. In his review Tate cuts to the heart of how Kendrick is able to package...
Literally two seconds before I closed my eyes, something told me to check my phone one more time. So glad I did because the Twitterverse was ablaze with that rapper, Kendrick Lamar Interscope records (maybe) inadvertently, dropped his highly anticipated new album over a week early! I’m self-admitted...
Black Messiah, Part 1 by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. These are, in fact, the times that try (wo)men’s souls. But there’s always “a word.” I came across this way of talking about weary days and keeping hope through my affiliation with black Methodists, Baptist and Pentecostal churches of the late 20th...
Darnell Moore (@moore_darnell) is a Musiqology Advisory Board Member and Co-Founder of the You Belong Initiative. Jazmine Sullivan’s third LP, Reality Show, is a combination of gritty lyricism and hypnotizing vocals. Her swoon-inducing sound combines the unearthly musicality found in the most...
For Birgitta Johnson and Treva Lindsey, Critics-At-Large I don’t remember having many TV shows that I watched obsessively after I became an adult. TV was mostly for those times when I was broke, lonely, bored or any combination of these. There was Saturday Night Live (no money/no date); the afternoon...
Acclaimed rapper, Talib Kweli, is building a long lasting career. He’s one of the few artists who is weathering the changes of the music industry and continues to record and tour consistently. This is no small feat. The music industry was enjoying the last of its halcyon days when he, and fellow...
