Geeta Dayal wrote about the music of Alice Coltrane for The Guardian.

There’s a new short story by Rion Amilcar Scott up at Phoebe.

Mary Timony named her choices for the nine best bands in Washington, DC.

Remezcla talked with AJ Dávila about his new album El Futuro.

The Verge has an excerpt from Stephen Graham Jones’s forthcoming Mapping the Interior.

Mark Hogan revisited Green Day’s Dookie for Pitchfork.

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