Blog: Cities of the Plain

G5 - Your (sometimes) daily EP of music links Sasha Frere-Jones recaps his interview of Björk at her Polar Music Prize reception (with a cool visual recollection of the event) Good news, hip-hop fans: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, where Kool Herc spun his sister’s birthday party in 1973 (and thus is considered “the birthplace of hip-hop”), is not going to be destroyed The xx won this year’s Mercury Prize, for best British album of the past year.  Given its history, that there wasn’t [...]