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Editorial

The Holiday that is Juneteenth + A New Punked Out Soundtrack to Celebrate It


My eyes were truly opened when I was sixteen years old and moving to East Texas from Southern California. We moved in early June and just a couple of weeks later a holiday was being celebrated, one I had never heard of: Juneteenth. Like anyone else who hears about something for the first time, I started to ask questions. I realized I was completely oblivious to the fact that it took two and a half years for the enslaved to be freed in Texas on June 19, 1865, after the Emancipation Proclamation. I remember my first year back in California, watching the… Read more »

Editorial

What’s Going On: The Greatest Soul Story Ever Told


“What’s Going On” The present-day relevance of What’s Going On is an acknowledgement of the creative mastery of the 1971 album and a reminder of the stagnation of society’s moral compass in its movement towards “justice for all.” Marvin Gaye’s creative genius is on full display on vinyl through the musicianship that helped create what is known as the “Motown Sound.” By the time of What’s Going On’s release, he was already known as a ‘Motown Star’ based on a career on a meteoric rise—that rise for Motown, as a label, and Marvin, as an artist, took place during the… Read more »

Editorial

Watch This Week – 4/12/21


Shows featured this week: My Love: Six Stories of True Love, Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!, The Circle, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Arlo the Alligator Boy, The Year Earth Changed, Frank of Ireland, Van Helsing, The Nevers, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

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