Tag: de angela duff
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D / M / S / R Subscriber Dispatch #1: August 2, 2024
Hello again! After almost a year and a half of radio silence, it now seems I can’t shut up.
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When Doves Cry (Why the Butterflies)
More perhaps than anything else, “When Doves Cry” existed for Prince as a symbol of what he was capable of when he pushed his artistry to its absolute limits.
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Podcast: 41 Years of Controversy – A Conversation with Harold Pride and De Angela Duff
Here we are again, my first podcast in more than a year, and I couldn’t have asked for better guests than Harold Pride and De Angela Duff to discuss Prince’s fourth and quite possibly most underrated album, 1981’s Controversy.
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Coming Soon: 41 Years of Controversy
Last October, I had every intention to mark the 40th anniversary of Controversy with another installment of our in-depth album retrospective podcast series, but life (i.e., my increasingly-predictable end-of-year burnout) intervened. Now, having finally gotten my shit together, I’m putting the finishing touches on the episode, and it will be dropping next Friday! I’m joined
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Podcast: 40 Years of The Time – A Conversation with Darling Nisi and Harold Pride
Darling Nisi and Harold Pride return for another in-depth retrospective on the 1981 debut album by the Time.
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Katrina’s Paper Dolls
Like many of Prince’s songs about women, “Katrina” feels like textbook projection: What else, after all, were Vanity 6, Jill Jones, or even the Time, if not “paper dolls” for him to play with and discard once he grew bored?