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Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year out now from Hachette Books. Newsletter on DJ sets: michaelangelo.substack.com he/him
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The New Prince Album Doesn’t Match His Legend Original

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By Michaelangelo Matos
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Why was Prince the ultimate pop star? Leaving out the outrageous persona, the eye-grabbing iconography, and the sizzling live shows, his musical restlessness and playfulness generated albums that were and are appointment listening. He expanded upon or subverted what had come before, from him and everybody else alike. Prince’s albums played their songs off of one another in much the same way those songs’ arrangements did, in spring-loaded patterns with endless buoyancy.
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‘It’s Terrible Right Now’: Uptown Dances in the Face of a Shooting Spree

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By Michaelangelo Matos
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Four shootings, all on weekends, over the course of a month, in the areas located on the perimeters of Minneapolis’s Uptown neighborhood. Two in the same area, one week between them; the other two a mere eight hours apart. All sent people to the hospital. And notably, three of the four shootings occurred close to nightclubs hosting DJ parties, even if the shootings did not take place on those nightclubs’ grounds.
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‘I Felt Like I Was There 90% of the Time’: An Oral History of the Dinkytowner Café

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By Michaelangelo Matos
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While doing interviews for this oral history of the short-lived, long-shuttered Dinkytowner Café, I heard a constant refrain: “Wait, have you talked to . . . ?” inevitably followed by names. Names that I had talked to, names I hadn’t yet talked to but knew I should, and—every single time—names that nobody else had mentioned, or would. You can see how this might be an issue, especially considering that I spoke with, yep, 56 people for this.
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