Under the Radar

ADRIAN YOUNGE

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Adrian Younge’s latest album, The American Negro, bears the violent image of a lynching on its cover. Shocking as it may seem to us today, lynching was once considered a celebratory event where postcards could be bought as souvenirs to mark the day and the cover art recreates that. Younge connects this

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