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Podcast: All the Critics Love U – A Conversation with Jack Riedy, Author of Electric Word Life

August 13, 2021

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Zachary Hoskins

in Podcast

For this month’s episode, it was my pleasure to speak to music writer Jack Riedy (Pitchfork, GQ, VIBE) about his new book Electric Word Life: Writing on Prince 2016-2021.
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Purple Rain (Verse 3)

July 30, 2021

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Zachary Hoskins

in Purple Rain, 1984

It’s Prince’s contribution to the Great American Songbook, a modern-day standard that transcends (almost) all categories of generation, genre, and taste.
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Let’s Go Crazy

April 9, 2021

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Zachary Hoskins

in Purple Rain, 1984

There are plenty of legitimate claims to make for the precise moment when Prince became a superstar; but by any metric, “Let’s Go Crazy” is close to the top.
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Podcast: Vous êtes très belle – Joni Todd and Karen Turman on the Salford Purple Reign Conference

September 8, 2017

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Zachary Hoskins

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Just under two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with two more presenters from the University of Salford’s interdisciplinary Prince conference: Joni Todd and Karen Turman, who you may know by reputation as the “esoteric French panel.” But if all that sounds too highbrow, don’t worry; we mostly talked about Prince’s impeccable fashion…
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