Nate Patrin
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Saint Paul, MN, United States
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We Are The War: 30 Years Ago "Voices That Care" Nearly Killed The All-Star Charity Single
Released two weeks after the Gulf War already ended, it may have killed the all-star charity single for good. → Read More
Underground Rap Classics Of The Late '90s: Stream Our Playlist
The world's best music blog. → Read More
Martha Wash's Diva Erasure: The Story Behind Lawsuits With C+C Music Factory & Black Box
Beneath the platinum largesse, the '90s were an ethical turning point for the pop music business. This was the decade where capital-A Authenticity became one of → Read More
2 Live Crew, Tipper Gore, & 30 Years Of The Parental Advisory Sticker
You want to talk about "cancel culture"? The Parental Advisory sticker as we know it turns 30 today, as does the first album to officially receive its stamp of → Read More
Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider: Remembering An Electronic Pioneer
Chuck Berry, James Brown, Kool Herc, Kraftwerk: It's not often you can so easily pinpoint the heralded originator of such a major component of popular music. → Read More
...And Justice For Us: 'Metallica v. Napster' 20 Years Later
'Metallica v. Napster, Inc.' made idea of artists being ripped off by the internet seem like a farce, but was a bit more complicated than that in retrospect. → Read More
Broadcast's Debut 'The Noise Made By People' Turns 20
To look at Broadcast 20 years after their full-length debut The Noise Made By People is to confront the idea of what "psychedelic" meant at the end of the 20th → Read More
Milli Vanilli Won The Only Grammy That’s Ever Been Revoked: A Look Back
Maybe you've seen the clip. There's Rob and Fab, the two model-handsome faces of Milli Vanilli, cavorting around onstage at a July 1989 MTV concert to their #2 → Read More
Chic's "Good Times" Is 40: A Timeline Of Rap's Ur-Sample
Forty years ago this weekend, Chic released one of music's great historical delineation points (and a mother of a dancefloor-filler). "Good Times" is more than → Read More
Donna Summer: 8 Notable Cover Versions
Forty years ago yesterday, on June 2, 1979, Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. A week earlier, it had achieved the same feat → Read More
“I’m Gon Make U Sick O’Me” by Parliament Review
The first single from an upcoming Parliament album called Medicaid Fraud Dog → Read More
“Matter of Time” by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Review
Even in the face of the cancer that eventually took her life, Sharon Jones rarely had time for sentimentality; she was the kind of artist best defined by her voice as a reassuring force of power, whether it was personal or collective. Her ballads were great, of course, but the Sharon most fans remembered was the one who made people dance, and tried to make them keep up with her boundless energy.… → Read More
Gonna Take On The World Someday: “We Will Rock You” At 40
On October 7, 1977 -- 40 years ago tomorrow -- Queen ensured the music world, and the sports world, a good four decades' worth of stomping and clapping and → Read More
Aja At 40: A Track-By-Track Listing Of Its Greatest Echoes
Steely Dan are definitely their own monumental idiosyncratic impossible-to-duplicate entity, but they've also felt important as part of a collective continuum - → Read More
The Byrds 'Eight Miles High" Covers
For a song that's been so often reduced to '60s Montage Cliche #00001B (Note: Please use only in case of rights restrictions for the Youngbloods' "Get → Read More
Right Said Fred 'I'm Too Sexy' Timeline
So here's what we know: Taylor Swift interpolated (or lifted) the cadence from Right Said Fred's 1991 pop-house hit "I'm Too Sexy" for the hook to her single → Read More
DJ Shadow: The Mountain Has Fallen EP Album Review
In a follow-up EP to last year’s The Mountain Will Fall, Shadow bucks expectations and finds inspiration in unlikely collabs with Nas and Danny Brown. → Read More
JJ DOOM: Bookhead EP Album Review
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“Since C.A.Y.A.” by Shabazz Palaces Review
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Dr. Octagon: Dr. Octagonecologyst Album Review
The most trusted voice in music. → Read More