2Pac: The Last Immortal?
What do we talk about, when we talk about 2Pac? Almost 30 years have passed since the killing of Tupac Shakur — emcee, actor, freedom fighter, street legend. In the season finale of The Music Snobs podcast, the crew focuses on one of modern culture’s most enduring icons, to ask: What was the single most […]
STRANGE LOVE: Black Narcissus
So it’s 1947 and… something’s in the air. Written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Black Narcissus outwardly uses breathtaking sets and cinematography to hint at the inner conflicts of a host of characters. A company of Anglican nuns are attempting to set up a colonial school and hospital in what used to […]
The CTI Never Sleeps: A Classic Black Music Record Label
The Music Snobs presents… TMS Black Label – the first in an annual series on the classic Black music record labels of our time, starting with the legendary CTI Records. A label famous for a locked-in instrumental groove, cutting edge engineering, and a house full of superstars, The Music Snobs declare that the CTI never […]
STRANGE LOVE: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woman goes to Spain. Woman brings her friend to Spain. Women meet man. Man propositions women. Women fly off with man. And you can guess the rest… Or can you? One of the many good things about Woody Allen’s 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona is its ability to take interesting turns that feel less like […]
Chicago vs. America: Is Chicago The Capital of Black Music?
There’s no place like home… or is there? Taking Chicago as the city to beat, TMS lay down the challenge to choose the nation’s music capital, and the center from which all Black American music flows. Is the Windy City the easy winner — or are Detroit, NYC, LA, ATL, NOLA, MPLS, Dayton and Oakland […]
Chaka Khan: The most versatile vocalist of all time?
Funk, Blues, Rock n’ Roll, R&B and standards — of the few singers that have genuinely done it all, have any done it better than the inimitable Ms. Khan? This episode, The Music Snobs give long overdue love to one of the most important artists of any lifetime. From classic masterjams to the deepest solo […]
STRANGE LOVE: The Talented Mr. Ripley
In 1999 we were transported back to 1959 to meet a very interesting, determined, and deranged young man named Tom Ripley… Matt Damon is Ripley—the protagonist and antagonist of both the Patricia Highsmith 1956 novel and this, the film adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley. And from the moment Damon appears on screen, there’s a just a hint […]