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Oliver Wang

Oliver Wang is a music writer, scholar, and DJ who created Soul-Sides.com. Since 1994, he's written on popular music, culture, race, and America for outlets such as NPR, Vibe, Wax Poetics, Scratch, The Village Voice, SF Bay Guardian, and LA Weekly.

Beat Breakdown: Main Source – “Looking At The Front Door”

Oliver Wang May 29, 2019 0

Oliver Wang breaks down Main Source’s “Looking At the Front Door” and points out why Large Professor’s production work on this song exemplified sophisticated leaps forward in hip hop song structure. The first album I ever bought on the…

Marquee Names: The Soul of Curtis Mayfield

Oliver Wang Jun 7, 2018 0

Curtis Mayfield helped reshape the direction of soul music in America and brought forth one of the most celebrated music catalogs in popular music. His gentle musicality, contrasting style, and powerful lyricism made him one of the most…