In a special episode of Justified Madness, I'm taking time to remember the life, career and legacy of Michael Eugene Archer bka D'Angelo. From his beginnings as a 3-year-old musical prodigy playing in his father's church to becoming a multiple-Grammy-award-winning artist, we remember D'Angelo! (The interview clip at the end is from 2000 when he dropped his "Voodoo" album) Rest in Heaven Michael Eugene Archer aka D'Angelo Sunrise:  2.11.1974  - Sunset:  10-14-2025

Attached: 1 image Changing it up to neo-soul: D'Angelo and the Vanguard's Black Messiah. It took D'Angelo quite a while to follow up Voodoo—14 years—but boy - was this worth the wait. All analog recording, and it sounds great. Also, is Pino Palladino on every great album with a fantastic groove, or just most of them? Not to mention Questlove! Just wow all around. And it's been 9 years since this was released: who knows when the next is coming! #vinyl #vinylrecords #nowplaying #neo-soul #D'AngeloAndTheVanguard

Neo-Soul Icon D’Angelo Passes Away at 51

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

Playlist · 120 Songs

Music comes and goes. There’s good music, there’s mediocre, and there’s bad. But if you live long enough, every so often something comes along that’s truly life-changing — music that shakes the foundations of who you thought you were; that drags you, kicking and screaming, downriver like an underwater current to somewhere you never imagined you’d end up. Now, I write a lot about rave culture, acid house and other related bits on this blog, but in 1995, when D’Angelo released…

Tuleeko Sisu 2 -elokuvasta kansainvälinen hitti? Mitä kriitikon antamien tähtien määrä kertoo kulttuurituotteesta? Muun muassa näitä kysymyksiä pohtivat elokuvajournalisti ja tietokirjailija Kalle Kin...