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Songs We Love: Lee Fields & The Expressions, ‘Never Be Another You’<\/a><\/strong>
For NPR.org (December, 26, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marquee Names: Rhetta Hughes’s “You’re Doing With Her, When It Should Be Me”<\/a><\/strong>
For BeatTips.com (December 14, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marquee Names: The Soul of Curtis Mayfield<\/a><\/strong>
(Column)
For BeatTips.com (December 6, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Queen Among Kings<\/a><\/strong>
(An appreciation of Sharon Jones)
For NPR.org (November 21, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service,’ A Tribe Called Quest<\/a><\/strong>
(Album review)
For NPR’s All Things Considered (November 14, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtis Mayfield Finally Gets a Definitive Biography. What Took So Long?<\/a><\/strong>
(Book Review)
For Pitchfork<\/em> (October 25, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Frightnrs, ‘Nothing More To Say’<\/a><\/strong>
(First Listen Review)
For NPR.org (August 25, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another Great Wall<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
(Essay on Peter Wang’s A Great Wall<\/em>)
For AngryAsianMan.com (August 24, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simple Idea, Spooky Result: Latin American Ballads Get A Ghostly Makeover<\/a><\/strong>
(Album review)
For NPR’s All Things Considered (August 24, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Songs We Love: Lady Wray, ‘Do It Again’<\/a><\/strong>
For NPR.org (August 3, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharon Jones: ‘Before I get on stage something comes over me and the pain goes away’<\/a><\/strong>
(Interview)
For The Guardian<\/em> (July 27, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind The Black Power Goddess: Betty Davis’ Early Demos Released<\/a><\/strong>
(Album Review)
For NPR’s All Things Considered (July 6, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cymande, London’s Greatest Funk Band, on Return to Stage<\/a><\/strong>
(Interview)
For Rolling Stone<\/em> (June 9, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Songs We Love: Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, ‘Was Dog A Doughnut’<\/a><\/strong>
For NPR.org (May 27, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Space Invaders<\/a><\/strong>
(Book Review of Geoff Manaugh’s A Burglar’s Guide to the City<\/em>
For the Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em> (May 12, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Echoes of History: Charles Lummis’ Wax Cylinder Recordings<\/a><\/strong>
(Article)
For KCET’s Artbound (May 3, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘James Brown: Live At The Apollo Vol. 4’ Is A Marvelous And Mysterious Time Capsule<\/strong><\/a>
(Review)
For All Things Considered (Apr. 26, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen: how Prince’s sound evolved over the years<\/a><\/strong>
(Radio Discussion)
For KPCC’s Take Two (Apr. 26, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Songs We Love: J Dilla, ‘F*** The Police<\/a>‘<\/strong>
For NPR.org (Apr. 7, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We like it like that: the songs that defined New York City’s boogaloo craze<\/a><\/strong>
(Annotated Playlist)
For The Guardian<\/em> (Apr. 5, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Songs We Love: Million Dollar Ecstacy, ‘Burning Inside’<\/a><\/strong>
For NPR.org (Mar. 31, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Songs We Love: Charles Bradley, ‘Things We Do For Love’<\/a><\/strong>
For NPR.org (Mar. 17, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great sexpectations: Peggy Orenstein’s ‘Girls & Sex’ explores the thorny politics of teen sexuality<\/a><\/strong>
(Book Review)
For the Los Angeles Times<\/em> (Mar. 24, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs<\/a><\/strong>
(Annotated Playlist)
For Rolling Stone<\/em> (Mar. 15, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kanye West Plays Puppet Master With ‘Life Of Pablo’ Premiere<\/a><\/strong>
(Commentary)
For All Things Considered (Feb. 15, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top 5, Dead or Alive<\/a><\/strong>
(Book Review of ‘The Rap Yearbook’ by Shea Serrano)
For The Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em> (Feb. 6, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maurice White: five deep cuts from the Earth, Wind & Fire co-founder<\/a><\/strong>
(Annotated Playlist)
For The Guardian<\/em> (Feb. 5, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing,’ Gloria Ann Taylor<\/a><\/strong>
(Album Review)
For All Things Considered (Jan. 12, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘People’s Instinctive Travels’ at 25<\/a><\/strong>
(Album Review)
For Cuepoint (Jan. 8, 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Songs We Love: Lee Fields & The Expressions, ‘Never Be Another You’For NPR.org (December, 26, 2016) Marquee Names: Rhetta Hughes’s “You’re Doing With Her, When It Should Be Me”For BeatTips.com (December 14, 2016) Marquee Names: The Soul of Curtis Mayfield(Column)For BeatTips.com (December 6, 2016) A Queen Among Kings(An appreciation of Sharon Jones)For NPR.org (November 21, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}