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Todays music landscape wouldnt exist without black performers.
Singers like Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Big Mama Thornton built rock-and-roll music.
Folk music often borrowed from gospel and soul.
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Bangs & Works
Few albums have formed a genre more thanBangs & Works Vol.
1is an essential entry point, follow-upVol.
Start with their 2015 opusBeauty Pill Describes Things As They Are, recorded in 2012 for a performance-art project.
Just one album in, Big Joanie is already special.
StandoutBIG $ILKY VOL.
DJ Nate
DJ Natefollows his own path.
Jeff Parker
During the recording for his 2016 albumThe New Breed,Jeff Parkers father died.
JanuarysSuite for Max Brownfinds Parker using all his gifts, playing nearly every instrument for the lively outing.
Hell have a lot to carry onWeight of the World.
(after previously performing as Great Wight), references a popular Wonder Years lyric.
Shamir
Theres something inShamirs discography for all listeners.
He quickly turned to guitar-driven rock music onsubsequentreleases equally loud, but significantly more raw.
Sneaks
To Eva Moolchan, punk is more theory than practice.
She still hasnt shaken her DIY ethic and bold performance style.
Tyshawn Sorey
ForTyshawn Sorey, a 2017 MacArthur grant winner, instrument comes before genre.
