Pop Culture & Comics
Still Figuring It Out: Keb’ Mo’ on Resilience, Roots, and The Breakdown
Executive Overview For more than half a century, Kevin Moore—better known to the world as Keb’ Mo’—has navigated the shifting...
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Pop Culture & Comics
The Body, the Sacred, and the Scandal: Melanie Martinez’s "THE VATICAN" and the Deep Historical Roots of Religious Satire
Executive Overview Pop music has a long, contentious history of dragging institutional religion into the mud, but few recent releases...
Pop Culture & Comics
Tracing the Roots of Vulnerability in Hip-Hop: How Atmosphere’s Slug Invented “Old School” Emo Rap
Executive Overview When underground hip-hop pioneer Slug—the lyrical half of the Minneapolis-based duo Atmosphere—stepped up to the microphone on January...
Pop Culture & Comics
Unearthing the Roots of a Musical Madman: Doctor Bird’s Flashing Echo Captures Lee "Scratch" Perry at a Pivotal Crossroads
Executive Overview To understand the kaleidoscopic, smoke-shrouded mythos of Lee "Scratch" Perry, pop-culture historians typically fixate on the latter half...
