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billy woods – GOLLIWOG

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It speaks to the plethora of racist caricatures and epithets which proliferated in the United States that the golliwog rag doll with its black skin, frizzy hair and blood-red lips has been described by the Jim Crow Museum as the 'least known' of the group. That certainly wasn't the case when I grew up in England, where the golliwog...

E L U C I D – REVELATOR

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Barrelling out of the gates on 'The World Is Dog' with the snapping bark of a canine but a gruffer palate, the Armand Hammer rapper Elucid sets forth his most sonically diverse record to date, where hyperventilating sirens, ping-ponging kicks and claves plus the odd reggae undercurrent are provided by producers like Jon Nellen, August Fanon, Child Actor, the...

Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra

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Hard on the heels of The Magic City, which was compered by Meshell Ndegeocello for release in April, and last year's incendiary pulling apart of 'Nuclear War', the nonprofit Red Hot which combats AIDS and promotes equal access to healthcare through pop-culture collaborations unleashes the most jam-packed volume to date in its ongoing series of reinterpretations of works by...