Hi friends! With apologies for the delay, it’s time to round out the final five entries in the New Masculinities Playlist for 2018. Track 8 – Anna Calvi, “Don’t Beat the Girl out of My Boy” When Anna Calvi took to Instagram to announce “Hunter,” her 2018 album, she made its moral core and message…
Hi friends! How about a straightforward musical affirmation for this latest entry to the New Masculinities Playlist? Just in case you ever wanted to hear an indie rock song tell you that your emotions are what make you beautiful, that, “you can scream and you can shout, you can let it all hang out, you…
I hereby inform you, dear readers, that the year 1993 is now 25 years ago. If that seems startling to you, and the turn of the century and millennium has obscured your ability to conduct simple subtraction, well then (as sitcom writers in 1993 might well have penned) “join the club.” Even as I count…
It’s midnight or so, and my friends and I are dancing in a hotel lobby in West Texas. It’s an idiosyncratic place any time of day—the kind of hotel that’ll put you up in a tent or Airstream trailer, the kind of lobby that’ll sell you sage bundles alongside fancy art books and $80 hoodies…
Dear friends, I could easily construct many years’ worth of New Masculinities Playlists drawing exclusively from the catalog of one artist: Prince. If you’re a regular reader of this website, or even a casual observer of masculinities in popular culture, you already know why. Prince’s incomparable discography, iconography, and public persona were the very sound…
It’s April! It’s springtime! Dear listeners, as you’re tucking away your sweaters for the season, planting some veggies in the garden, rolling down your car windows, and doing whatever else you do as the weather warms, I hope you’ll also turn up this month’s entry to the New Masculinities Playlist: “The Boy” by Shannon and…
Dear readers, as you probably know, there’s a radical, political showcase of Black excellence holding the zeitgeist right now: Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther film. Diving into the universe of this film has topped any other new masculinities experiences related to music that I’ve had in February. I encourage you to put any song from Black…
To turn the New Masculinities Playlist up to 11 in 2018, we had the idea to make it an actual playlist, in addition to a series of essays. So, to that end, we’ve got a couple goodies lined up for you today: First, here is a Spotify playlist of all the songs I mentioned in…