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2 months ago | 
daily.bandcamp.com | Nadine Smith
ALBUM OF THE DAY MIKE, “Showbiz!” By Nadine Smith · February 03, 2025 MIKE New York, New York follow ✓ following unfollow ... Showbiz! MIKE . / pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track .
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
1nadinesmith.substack.com | Nadine Smith
I awoke to a text from a friend: âResistance is gonna come in so many forms -đ.âShe sent along an article from Huffington Post about how activists are hilariously overwhelming the federal anti-DEI snitch line.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
wmnf.org | Nadine Smith
In this episode, host Nadine Smith interviews Britt Hartley, a spiritual director, author, and expert in modern secular spirituality. Britt, author of "No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools, No Faith Required," shares her journey from being raised Mormon to embracing a secular, science-driven approach to spirituality.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
pitchfork.com | Nadine Smith
A decade ago, before the words “Drain Gang” were ever uttered, Yung Lean and Bladee were the twin flames at the forefront of the Swedish Invasion. Despite the longevity of their creative relationship—and the fact that the collective has always seemed to prioritize their genuine friendships over business transactions—the duo has never actually released a full collaborative project until now.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
pitchfork.com | Nadine Smith
Once associated mainly with Río de Janeiro, Brazilian funk has exploded stylistically in recent years; countless tributaries have branched out across the country’s vast landscape. DJ Anderson de Paraíso hails from Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s third largest metropolitan area.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
pitchfork.com | Nadine Smith
Over the last decade, Beyoncé has positioned herself as a pop star and an archivist, tracing a personal historiography of Black musical tradition through her own body of work. With 2021’s Renaissance, she looked to the dancefloor to shine a spotlight on the queer artists of color who built the community of house music. Act II, the album’s newly announced sequel, suggests a similar approach to the dance hall.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
pitchfork.com | Nadine Smith
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, between dreamy cloud rap, the prog aspirations of Brainfeeder, and the commercial convergence of trap-EDM, the lines between hip-hop production and electronic experimentation were blurred like never before. Perhaps the most zeitgeisty example of that confluence was Kanye West’s Yeezus, which brought leftfield producers like Arca, Hudson Mohawke, and Evian Christ into the mainstream.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
pitchfork.com | Nadine Smith
Rio de Janeiro-born producer DJ Ramon Sucesso has evangelized experimental music fans around the world to baile funk with frenetic viral videos in which he pounds away at MIDI pads and distorts turntable scratches into banshee wails. Each Sucesso video has a signature visual touch: When the bass hits, the camera vibrates in an uncontrollable fit, almost like you’re smack dab inside the pounding heart of a subwoofer.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
pitchfork.com | Nadine Smith
Sofia Coppola’s needledrops are just as distinctive as the soft textures and baroque interiors found throughout her filmography. Moments like the Roxy Music karaoke scene in Lost in Translation and the DJ-like blend from the Cure’s “Plainsong” to New Order’s “Ceremony” during the wedding scene in Marie Antoinette have been crucial in defining her ineffably cool aesthetic sensibility, one that has made its mark on the record collections of countless millennials.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
pitchfork.com | Nadine Smith
Tyler Childers knows how the house of country music can be divided against itself. Since his 2011 debut, the Kentucky songwriter has roamed beyond the conventional divisions of the genre, flirting not just with Sturgill Simpson-esque heartland rock and old-time mountain music but synthesizers and even lo-fi beats.
