Marcus J. Moore
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Past articles by Marcus:
There Will Never Be Another Greg Tate
The pioneering critic, who passed away earlier this week at age 64, expressed the multitudes of Black art with unparalleled intensity and wit. → Read More
The Story of Sun Ra’s Egyptian Adventure
How a 1971 trip changed the course of the free jazz icon’s career. → Read More
Pharoah Sanders’s Grand Return
A new collaboration with electronic producer Floating Points has led to a modern-day masterpiece for the jazz master. → Read More
Kendrick Lamar’s Poetic Awakening
How an encounter with a creative writing teacher changed the LA rapper’s life. → Read More
The Culture Is Still Catching Up With Georgia Anne Muldrow
Whether in jazz, rap, or R&B, she has made music out of liberation. → Read More
Run the Jewels’ Wake-up Call
While other mainstream rappers might create one song or one album dedicated to the unrest, Killer Mike and El-P have carried that torch for six years. → Read More
Funk for the Future
Nick Hakim’s bracing and politically urgent new album Will This Make Me Good is a different kind of love music. → Read More
Reinventing the Sound of Protest
Jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements’s fearless music takes to task the police, American politics, capitalism, and racism. → Read More
Tame Impala Is Feeling Serenity Now
The Australian band’s contemplative new album finds calm in their stadium rock ambitions. → Read More
Anna Wise: As If It Were Forever Album Review
The idiosyncratic singer mixes R&B, ambient, and acoustic soul on her most accessible and fully-formed record, one that still feels like an open mic. → Read More
jaimie branch: FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise Album Review
The New York trumpeter and bandleader’s second album is darker, denser, and more experimental than its predecessor, but no less resonant. → Read More
Sampa the Great: The Return Album Review
On her breakout debut, the promising Melbourne rapper wrestles with big ideas about peace, family, and home. → Read More
Little Brother: May the Lord Watch Album Review
The North Carolina rap group (minus producer 9th Wonder) reunite for a warm, breezy LP that recalls the best of their original work. → Read More
Bon Iver’s Great Escape
What began as a solo folk act has swelled into a collaborative and ecstatic mix of rock, pop, gospel, and more. → Read More
Madlib on His New Album With Freddie Gibbs, Bandana: Interview
The singular producer on his process, Earl Sweatshirt, and more → Read More
woods + segal: Hiding Places Album Review
On his bracing collaboration with L.A. producer Kenny Segal, woods gets painfully real about his fears, his doubts and irritations, and even his mortality. → Read More
Quelle Chris: Guns Album Review
Quelle Chris examines how words, fear, and skin color are weaponized, and how one’s community can dictate their relationship to firearms. → Read More
The Comet is Coming: Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery Album Review
The cosmically minded group featuring rising jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings dances to the apocalypse and pleads for humanity. → Read More
Solange Searches for Epiphany
Her fourth album, When I Get Home, is a love letter to her hometown of Houston and to her fans, who find solace in her vision of uplift. → Read More
“ZORA” by Jamila Woods Review
The Chicago singer’s new single is a meditation on Zora Neale Hurston → Read More