Five thoughts on Black sci-fi streaming, the U.S.–Russia diesel deal, AI’s Manhattan office leases, a looming jobs gap in developing countries, and June McDoom’s Follow the Light. Plus Dinah Washington’s “Drinking Again,” is the song currently stuck in my head.
Read More Tano — Oct 17, 2026Saoul’s Popsicle may be one of the most sobering groovalicious parties in your ear this summer — a satisfying album in the face of “cookie-cutter” celeb culture and politico worship that have packaged themselves to become a new phallic north star for unicultural market appeal. Had enough of unhealthy celeb admiration, and public debates about […]
Read More Album in the Crosshairs: Saoul — Popsicle | 2023 | Phreakyamind IncGet LIQ’d, y’all. It’s 2020 … At the start of 2019 — yeah, feels like a decade ago given the constant azz-whoopin’ 2020’s been handing to us — multi-instrumentalist Saoul gave us his made-for-the-party Seldom Oddity album that instantly made me think of how he can relate to writer James Baldwin’s admonition to “taste the […]
Read More Album in the Crosshairs: Saoul — SuCcumb | 2020 | self-releasedA timely release for the summer. And our times. Thanks to Jamal Dixon and his Africans on Warren Street EP, I’ve found pandemic living room club songs for my summer playlist. On the heels of his debut Brick City smasher, the New York area DJ and producer’s creative lion has been fiercely roaring in the […]
Read More Aural Dive: Jamal Dixon – ‘Africans on Warren Street’ EP (2020, Nylon Trax)Saoul wants you to taste the bread. And be sexy while doing it. Plus, he has a new release, Seldom Oddity, to help you along … The unsuppressed, sensual funkiness of the multi-instrumentalist’s EP mirrors writer James Baldwin’s admonition to view sensuality — despite the unequal and on-the-brink times we live in — as a […]
Read More Album in the Crosshairs: Saoul — Seldom Oddity EP | Special Edition | self-released | 2019