The Renaissance of Boots Riley: Reviewing SORRY TO BOTHER YOU + 2015 Interview
By Ted Coe. Monday, July 30, 2018. I’m going to end this debut blog-post / essay with an appeal to read a sizable transcript of an interview I conducted in 2015 with musician / filmmaker / radical organizer Boots Riley . If you'd rather just listen in, I'm also reposting a recording of that conversation, in raw form. Boots Riley is front man of hip-hop act The Coup , and much, much more. Boots [Riley] Street Sweeper Social Club opening for Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction by cappndave ( CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) Now, a brief look back to another moment in history: 1986, when TIME Magazine dubbed Talking Heads’ frontman David Byrne, “Rock’s Renaissance Man.” Byrne was best known for his work with that prominent “New Wave”/ art-rock band, but he also was always applying skills that got him into two prominent arts schools, incorporated many “world music” influences into his own compositions (eventually even starting the eclectic record-label Luaka Bo...