At Pitchfork, Craig Jenkins reviewed D’Angelo’s Black Messiah, and Chris Molanphy looked at its chart position.

At The Billfold: Jason Diamond’s “King of the Christmas Jews.”

Nathaniel Adams has a few things to tell you about gin.

Ad Hoc looks at the history of Alice Coltrane’s Turiya Sings.

Dusted has a rundown of Doug Mosurock’s favorite music of the year.

The Chris Gethard Show will be moving to cable.

Michaelangelo Matos on the best mixes of the year.

The people behind Philadelphia and Other Stories talked with Electric Literature.

Beca Grimm on the best articles she read in 2014.

Feel like reading an excerpt from one of Jamie Iredell’s forthcoming books?

A look at bad soccer autobiographies.

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