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Ars Poetica: Lizzo and friends strike an artistic pose
High art to big bum beauty, it’s time to fling off those garments and let it all hang out as guest playlister Tatanka Yotanka goes au naturel with a double dozen pair of playlists inspired by last week’s nominations that brilliantly buff
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Back in the bar: Erykah Badu
Lumbar numbers to vertebral verses, it’s time to run all the way up the spine to the nape of the neck in playlists that place all those discs without a single slip, musically massaged and written about by guest Loud Atlas from last week’s topic
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Ibeyi’s Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz
Young, older, tender, close, bosom pals, supportive, mother-some to fierce, bitchy, inter-family rivals and constantly bothersome. They come in all shapes and types, and whether it’s by any songwriter, or from within a sibling band, let’s sing out for the sister
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The fabulous Supremes
It’s a group dynamic. This week we celebrate landmark, iconic or noteworthy songs by groups of exclusively female artists of three or more, spanning genres from early classical to jazz and swing, 60s soul, to 70s, 80s, 90s and 21st century pop
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Three-dog night
Triangles and holy trinities, this week let’s explore the musical dynamic within groups in which three artists perform as a self-contained unit, not merely pop, jazz, classical, or folk, but across all all genres
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The Andantes: backing vocal mainstays of Motown – Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow and Louvain Demps. Who didn't they sing for?
They're the brilliant singers who blend beautiful and really make the music. From Motown and soul to to church and gospel, barbershop to pop or even punk, suggest songs made backed brillliantly by the unknown or famous
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The Puppini Sisters
Barbershop to Bulgarian, folk to rock, church, gospel to swing, from the sacred to the profane, it's time to suggest songs where two or many more voices sing closely formed, but independent melodies
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