Cody Chesnutt

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 6/14/13

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The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 6/10/13

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Facebook + Music: Most People Are DJs

The site's foray into music and the act of performative listening

Ten Steps To Shabazz Palaces: Tracing Ishmael Butler's Path Between Digable Planets And The Present

​Back in the early '90s, Ishmael Butler came to rap prominence as Butterfly in the group Digable Planets. These days, he's taken on the moniker Palaceer Lazaro and records as the lead voice in Sub Pop's first hip-hop signing, Shabazz Palaces. It's a metamorphosis that Butler has left deliberat ... More >>

Download "Come Back Like Spring," A New Track From Cody ChesnuTT (!!!!)

​Many springs have passed since The Headphone Masterpiece, hip-hop soul upstart Cody ChesnuTT's 2002 double-CD debut, which raised quite a stir back in the day, alongside his surprise hit with the Roots, "The Seed (2.0)." Dude has unfortunately laid pretty low since ("Afrobama" excepted.) And ... More >>

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Playlist

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

Pulling Dylan Out by the Roots

An otherwise sleepy tribute gets ambushed by "Machine Gun"

Wings of Change

The Neptunes get sensitive while hiding beats under rock

8 Simple Rules for Babysitting the President's Daughter

Killing Me Softly

Not-Talking Cures

As Long as I Still Can

Nicebreaker

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