Music
Janelle Monáe's Political Sex
Monáe’s Dirty Computer is an ambitious, politically outspoken, all-encompassing pop-R&B statement album.
Janelle Monaé
Music
The Legendary Auteur: Deconstructing Pazz & Jop
As the Village Voice’s 41st Pazz & Jop Critics Poll makes clear, Kanye West is the most gifted popular musician of our time. This may sound like empty, generalized hyperbole, and it is. But nothing else would do justice to a man whose renown dwarfs your average celebrity, because West has reached an
Art
The Days of Future Past: Afrofuturism and Black Memory
When you walk into the main gallery of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s current exhibition The Shadows Took Shape, which explores contemporary art through the lens of Afrofuturist aesthetics, one of the first pieces to catch the eye is a glittering procession of black astronauts fanned across a faded l
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (September 2013, Part 1)
This week, reviews of Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monaé, The Weeknd, and Neko Case.