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Make:
Jazz that fucks with punk, soul, pop, rock, and hiphop.

Are:
Enthusiastic headbangers.

Performed:
The catchiest tune of the year, “Saying Goodbye (to Rainbow Socks and Hair Dye),” at the Genius Awards.

One night while watching D’Vonne Lewis playing with a trio at the Vito’s lounge, it occurred to me that he just might be the most talented musician in Seattle. Raised by a family with deep roots in Seattle’s black American musical tradition, Lewis, a jazz drummer and the founder of the quartet Industrial Revelation, is not only a highly refined drummer…

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Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...