Today at the magazine: I went to the dentist and ate Uyghur food with Mach-Hommy, and preview his new album, 5786 AM: Easy Listen https://t.co/pwlaKhG3Z5
the DMV is the most innovative, experimental hotbed for street rap in the country right now. that shit has taken over my life. for @pitchfork, i wrote about two collectives trying to break thru https://t.co/fGQTJmTeFm
Olivier wrote the definitive profile of Too Many Strikers and DPM, two rising collectives with radically different takes on free car music, the DMV's hybrid of drill. He interviewed Migo Lee, Slimegetem, Jaeychino, Xang, SJR, and many more.
Earlier this year, @oliviersaidhi spent some time traveling around the DMV talking to the rappers and producers at the heart of the most exciting regional scene right now. Read all about it. Photos by @_GustavoMarinho https://t.co/8F8TPW7rx0
We talked about everything. The poisonous music industry (he used to put out g-funk records on his own label); dreams and aspirations in the hard-to-navigate art world; longing for a more just world. We’ll talk some more Friday at Silke Lindner. Would love to see you there.
This Friday I’m interviewing one of my favorite artists L.W.D. at the opening of his New York solo show Downtown Babylon. Silke Lindner at 6pm pull up!!!
When I was visiting LA back in January, I stopped by his studio and we kicked it all day. He showed me ceiling-high work-in-progress depictions of LA’s cityscape and jammed-up streets. On a table sat sculptures of high-rises crafted from driftwood and wreckage from the LA fires.
2019-20 babyxsosa, her reference points, her producers signaled a new era to me. Can’t separate “enemies” from hearing her perform it in DC a week before the whole city shut down due to covid. Shaped my taste in songwriting this decade sm. https://t.co/YmkXfXXnrG