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  • "Prince’s new vault release, ‘Originals’: A track-by-track guide" by Mike Duquette - 7 June 2019

    The premise is simple: 15 songs from Prince’s expanded universe, which he wrote and performed to give to acts he was producing (the Time, Vanity 6, Sheila E.) or just ones he liked (the Bangles, Kenny Rogers). Most of the released versions retained nearly all of Prince’s intricately built backing tracks, making Minneapolis’ distinctive synth-funk sound that much more indelible throughout the ‘80s. But Originals also showcases the breadth of Prince’s musical tastes, dabbling in pure pop as often as straightforward R&B, and even one country-ready tune. (It also showcases Prince’s most prolific period for the digital age: Six of these songs are not available on Apple Music or Spotify, as originally recorded.)

    With Originals streaming on TIDAL this week and heading to CD and all digital channels on June 21, now’s a good time to revisit the tracks as we first heard them.

  • "'Prince 'hurt me to my soul': Jesse Johnson kicks off Celebration 2019 with emotional onstage interview" By Keith Harris -- 26 April 2019

    In an onstage interview with Andrea Swensson of the Current, former Time guitarist Jesse Johnson spoke extensively and frankly about his difficult relationship with Prince.

    “A lot of things he did … hurt me to my soul,” Johnson said, according to Ross Raihala of the Pioneer Press. “Would I come here if he was alive? I don’t think so.”

    [...]

    Jon Bream of the Star Tribune characterized the chat as “a little wacky, a little humorous, and totally heartfelt.” Swensson called it “brave, authentic, emotionally candid, and 100% honest about his complicated relationship with Prince.” For Raihala it was “a long, rambling monologue.”

  • "Let's make fun of Weezer's song about Prince in the week's Go Slow No" March 8, 2019 by Keith Harris in Music

    As much as anyone, Rivers Cuomo established the contours of the modern-rock hit as we know it, and as punishment he’s doomed to dopily haunt its commercial confines forever. Despite his aptitude for tune, Cuomo’s lyrics have always stumbled, and their gawkiness only simulates a vulnerable charm if you first encounter them at a particularly susceptible moment. So maybe schtick-rock throwaways like “Zombie Bastards,” “Can’t Knock the Hustle,” and “The Prince Who Wanted Everything” (somebody’s surely rolling in his Paisley-Park-shaped urn) aren’t exactly unworthy of the auteur who once sang “Flip on the telly/Wrestle with Jimmy” after all. Maybe you’ve just outgrown him.

  • "The weekend's best concerts: Nov. 30-Dec. 2"

    Saturday 12.1

    Moodymann @ Paisley Park

    This Detroit musician, whose productions run the gamut from house to funk to jazz to techno, can turn old songs (both classic and obscure tune) into something completely new and fresh while still paying tribute to the source material. Prince’s deep influence on Moodymann’s music is best exemplified by “U Can Dance If U Want 2,” which is essentially a rework of Prince’s “All The Critics Love U In New York.” And if Moodymann’s DJ set is anything like the one the Prince tribute he spun at the 7th St Entry on the first anniversary, which was full of B-sides, bootlegs, and rarities from his massive collection, even well-versed Prince fans will be hearing things for the first time. At the April 2017 show, the DJ showed off his extensive multimedia collection of rarities, mixing in bootleg versions of well-known songs such as “Let’s Work” and impossibly rare cuts with Paisley Park rehearsal footage and obscure recordings that he got from only God (and Prince) knows where.

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