Dylan Green

United States

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Co-Founder, Writer and Editor at Hearing Things

They/He/Dyl. idiotic rap/film writer. founder/writer/editor @hearingthingsco. host of the #ReelNotes podcast. the illest psalms written with killer palms

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Articles

Week of May 9, 2025

6 days ago | numusiquefriday.com | Dylan Green

Keeping track of all the new music that drops every week is a nightmare. I’m here to do it so you don’t have to! Welcome to Nu Musique Friday. Pull up some headphones and stay awhile. Several albums on this list are available on Bandcamp.
Niontay Explains His Credit Card Statement

1 week ago | hearingthings.co | Dylan Green

Credit History is an interview series where we ask our favorite artists to comb through their credit card statements and tell us about what they bought, from the necessary to the frivolous to the outlandish. “I’m Mr. HaveMyWay, and you can’t do nothin’ ‘bout it!,” Niontay says in his thick Florida twang near the beginning of his latest album Fada<3of$ (pronounced “For the love of money”). For the Brooklyn-based rapper-producer, that’s as much a statement about his musical range as it is his luck.
Week of April 25, 2025

2 weeks ago | numusiquefriday.com | Dylan Green

Keeping track of all the new music that drops every week is a nightmare. I’m here to do it so you don’t have to! Welcome to Nu Musique Friday. Pull up some headphones and stay awhile.
What ‘Sinners’ and Chelsea Reject Taught Me About the Power of Black Cultural Memory

3 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Dylan Green

What is the responsibility of a griot? There’s always been more to the role than just singing songs for an audience. In West African culture, the griot is an orator, a cultural gatekeeper whose talents for song, dance, and storytelling are directly tied to their people’s history and well-being. A griot understands there’s no pain without pleasure, no reward without risk, and sifts through those raw feelings, pulling from the past and the future to make sense of the present.
Week of April 18, 2025

3 weeks ago | numusiquefriday.com | Dylan Green

Keeping track of all the new music that drops every week is a nightmare. I’m here to do it so you don’t have to! Welcome to Nu Musique Friday. Pull up some headphones and stay awhile. My latest piece of writing is about dancehall legend Vybz Kartel. It's a hybrid profile/show review where I briefly spoke to him days before his sold-out concerts at the Barclays Center, his first time back in Brooklyn in over 20 years.
‎‘Sinners’ review by Dylan • Letterboxd

3 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Ryan Coogler |Dylan Green

★★★★½ DON’T YOU EVER INSULT MY CATFISH I WILL SLAP FIRE OUTTA U
Vybz Kartel can't stop pain, but he can sell out Barclays

3 weeks ago | thefader.com | Dylan Green

We’re a world away from one of the earliest shows Vybz Kartel played in Brooklyn. If you search hard enough, there’s footage of Kartel, slender and confident, performing on February 15, 2005, at a venue called The Rock. He’s dressed in a white suit, matching loafers, and a pastel pink undershirt that match his blinding, swaggering delivery.
Vybz Kartel can't stop pain, but he can sell out Barclays

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Dylan Green

11 hours agoTake your pick from this massive selection of free online courses. TL;DR: A wide range of online courses from Harvard University are available to take for free on edX. Looking for online courses from some of the top educational institutions in the world? You should stop what you're doing and check …
The Good Kind of Y2K Revivalism

4 weeks ago | hearingthings.co | Andy Cush |Ryan Dombal |Julianne Escobedo Shepherd |Dylan Green

Hello and welcome to the latest installment of Five Albums, the weekly feature for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we recommend you the new records from across genres that you need to hear. As music journalists, the question we get most often from friends is how to stay on top of what’s new and cool. This is our attempt to provide a practical answer. It’s Tax Day, which means many of us are staring down a hefty bill and trying not to freak out about how to pay it.
Week of April 11, 2025

1 month ago | numusiquefriday.com | Dylan Green

Keeping track of all the new music that drops every week is a nightmare. I’m here to do it so you don’t have to! Welcome to Nu Musique Friday. Pull up some headphones and stay awhile. My latest piece for Hearing Things is an essay about how two recent albums–Will Smith's Based on a True Story and LL Cool J's The Force–are great examples of rap retrofuturism. If you like what my co-founders and I are up to, consider subscribing to the site (and paying for it, if you can). We don't bite, promise.