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Burning Down the House: Flying Lotus’s “Flamagra” Summons a Fire It Won’t Put Out

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By Max Suechting
| Los Angeles Review of Books Verified
AUGUST 24, 2019 THE FIRST SOUND on Flamagra, the ambitious new record from Los Angeles–based musician Flying Lotus — a.k.a. producer, DJ, filmmaker, and video artist Steven Ellison — is the delicate, percussive shivering of fire.
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Name One Genius That Ain’t Crazy: Kanye West Has Nothing to Say -BLARB

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By Max Suechting
| Los Angeles Review of Books Verified
It’s an August afternoon in 2013. I’m in Bushwick, standing on the JMZ platform at Myrtle and Broadway, a block and a half from the dumpy, poorly-ventilated loft I share with four friends. The second half of “I’m In It” is blaring in my headphones; the indecipherable combination of King Louie’s patois and Justin Vernon’s mumble-setto makes my hair stand on end. West’s sampled scream seems to skip in my headphones. It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that Kanye West is at it again.
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Rage, Reborn

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By Ken Richardson, James Yamasaki, Stu Rosner, Max Suechting
| Harvard Magazine Verified
Guitarist Tom Morello ’86 was watching CNN one day in 2016 when a peculiar headline caught his eye: “Donald Trump Rages Against the Machine.” The chyron cheekily referenced Rage Against the Machine, the 1990s rock band whose pioneering synthesis of hip-hop’s rhythmic lyricism and heavy metal’s guitar-driven pyrotechnics Morello helped to define on Rage’s airwaves-incinerating first record in 1992.
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