Cultural & Social Commentary

Two Queue Points interviews with members of the Chester Gifted Program describe how music, field recording and writing have been used to doc...

Show notes for Show #248: Christopher R. Rogers on My City Need Something, PnB Rock, Karim Brown's photographs and Chester's Southern roots,...

Show #246: Jay Ray heads home to Chester, PA with Christopher R. Rogers and DJ Naij B to talk Engineered Grace, Vol. 1, field recordings, To...

A daycare, two schools, a church, a studio. The Chester Jay Ray grew up with is closing one place at a time. Engineered Grace Vol. 1 records...

how notes for Show #246: the Chester Gifted Program on Engineered Grace Vol. 1, memory, sound systems and environmental justice, with refere...

This episode uses The New York Times’ list of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters to question how we define musical greatness, debat...

Show Notes: Explore the evolution and shrinking mainstream space for Black protest music, from Vietnam-era soul to contemporary hip-hop, and...

Show Notes: This episode uses Fat Joe’s defense of using the N-word to examine how urban upbringing, Afro-Latino identity, and audience acco...

The episode uses Questlove’s Sly Lives! as a springboard to examine who gets labeled “Black genius” and what that label costs artists like S...