KEXP has announced the new weekly podcast Fresh Off the Spaceship: The Story of the Black Constellation. Launching March 18, the limited series show will document the Seattle artist collective whose ranks include Shabazz Palaces, Stas THEE Boss (formerly of THEESatisfaction), Erik Blood, OCNotes, JusMoni, Porter Ray, Ya Tseen, and more. The podcast will be hosted by Larry Mizell Jr. (who is a member of Black Constellation) and former Pitchfork contributor Martin Douglas. Listen to the show’s new trailer below.
The last Shabazz Palaces album was 2020’s The Don of Diamond Dreams. Read Pitchfork’s 2014 feature “Event Horizon: Black Constellation’s Revolutionary Now.”
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