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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 4h

D’Angelo. Hard to even process this one. He was one of a kind, but part of a continuum. That’s at the heart of what made him so special. #RIP

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Nick J Mascis @bridgemusicbunker.bsky.social · 4h

I used to think public mourning for celebs you never met was an unnecessary or odd use of social media, but now I think the collective part of it is one of its more redeemable uses.

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 4h

Was always pretty sure that D'Angelo live in Brixton on the Voodoo tour was the best gig I'd ever seen. But then I saw him again.

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 4h

The greatest live performer I've ever seen. RIP the incomparable D'Angelo.

youtu.be/95Aes_r98sY?...

D'Angelo ~ Devils Pie ~ live 2000 MTV Movie Awards

YouTube video by Art Varkington

youtu.be

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 7h

In UK shops today. Check that tracklisting.

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 12h

People who spend their professional lives writing often make better books than memoirists who don't.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 1d

The MOJO review makes a bunch of not dissimilar points while also asserting that it's also pretty great by most measures.

John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 1d

Arguably reads like a 3. But it's also an example of how tricky it can be to review archive releases and reissues: are you reviewing what it was, what it isn't or what it is? This one very much focuses on what it isn't.

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 2d

And reader, that guy was Kid Rock (but yes 100% and I think your “I don’t care” is critical because there’s no *correct* way to like an album; you get there however works for you).

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 3d

I read this exact passage out loud to everyone in the room when I got to it.

Ana @motherslug.bsky.social · 3d

Moving thru Shadow Ticket slowly (this is only pg. 9) but here's one of my favorite bits so far, Pynchon beautifully rendering light (shades of Against the Day) with "penumbras of lampposts" & then almost a Last Picture Show vibe with Skeet Wheeler (relative of Zoyd?!) & his Milwaukee bildungsroman.

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 3d

Where are you?

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 4d

Subscriber copies incoming...

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 4d

Subscriber copies incoming...

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 4d

The new Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington is the gentlest and calmest way to start days at the moment. Couple of tracks from Rebuilding worth your time on Bandcamp. jakexerxesfussell.bandcamp.com/album/rebuil...

Rebuilding, by Jake Xerxes Fussell, James Elkington

17 track album

jakexerxesfussell.bandcamp.com

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 4d

[Loses half a day's work over house style for kd lang/KD Lang]

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 4d

"I think you'll find its Lifes Rich Pageant not Life's, young man."

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 4d

Rare opportunity for heckles about pica, I get it.

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 4d

Music press sub-editors double header!

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 5d

*Not all records...

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 5d

I often think about the value of that listening discipline to try and like a new record I paid for. I've been lucky enough to avoid doing it for 35 years, but maybe there was something about all those desperate repeat plays that was useful? About learning how records can slowly reveal themselves?

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 5d

Well, this is quite an issue. A CD of unheard John & Yoko. An exclusive, substantial new Springsteen interview. Prince, Miles, Lucinda Williams, Hendrix, Replacements, Brigitte Fontaine, Congos, Mavis Staples. Such good, diverse writing. Such rich design. It's a classic @mojomagazine.bsky.social 1/2

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 5d

This new @mojomagazine.bsky.social is in UK shops Tuesday 14th, but you can order one now from us: www.greatmagazines.co.uk/mojo-decembe.... Thanks more than ever to Danny, Jenny, Ian H, Simon, Wag, Del, Keith, Matt, Ian W, Chris and all the great writers for making this one happen. 2/2

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 5d

Well, this is quite an issue. A CD of unheard John & Yoko. An exclusive, substantial new Springsteen interview. Prince, Miles, Lucinda Williams, Hendrix, Replacements, Brigitte Fontaine, Congos, Mavis Staples. Such good, diverse writing. Such rich design. It's a classic @mojomagazine.bsky.social 1/2

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 5d

Lots of egregious things this govt are doing right now, and this maybe isn't the most pressing. But withdrawing funding for the IB in state schools is a petty, low-level, stealth xenophobic way of further isolating the UK from the international community and it stinks. www.change.org/p/oppose-the...

Sign the Petition

Oppose the funding cuts for IB ( international baccalaureate)

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John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social · 6d

5 goals last year, a season after no central midfielder got one.