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  Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Moscow, Idaho

  Ayers talks music, identity

  Jan. 28—It was 1993 in Seattle when Nabil Ayers had to decide between two crucial life paths after graduating college: getting a real job or working at a record store. In most situations, the ideal path would be to get a "real job" and get an apartment. But for Ayers, picking the record store is what led to his success — and understanding his identity. Ayers, musician, writer and record ...

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  Soundtracking Memories: ‘My Life in the Sunshine’ Author Nabil Ayers Details the Music That Made Him (Guest Column)

  My life has always revolved around music. My mother is a dancer who played Seals & Crofts and Stevie Wonder records loudly in our apartment as far back as I can remember. My uncle, the jazz saxophonist Alan Braufman, bought me a drum set when I was two-and-a-half years old. I’ve never known my father, […]

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  SPIN

  Nabil Ayers Searches for Identity, Explores Race and Family in His New Memoir

  Nabil Ayers has always been surrounded by music. He played drums in Seattle indie rock band The Long Winters, co-founded Seattle’s Sonic Boom Records, and is currently the U.S. president of the Beggars Group, which distributes 4AD, Rough Trade Records, Matador Records, XL Recordings, and Young. It’s his last name, however, that has always attracted … Nabil Ayers Searches for Identity, Explores Race and Family in His New Memoir Read More » The post Nabil Ayers Searches for Identity, Explores Race

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  Rolling Stone

  Nabil Ayers Looks Back on His First Sit-Down With His Jazz-Legend Father

  In an excerpt from his new memoir, My Life in the Sunshine, the drummer and label owner delves into his complex relationship with vibraphone great Roy Ayers — the father he barely knew

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  Variety

  4AD Records’ Nabil Ayers to Release Memoir, ‘My Life in the Sunshine’

  Music industry veteran Nabil Ayers, who is currently the U.S. general manager of 4AD, has announced a June 7 release date for his memoir, “My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family,” via Viking Books. The title is an homage to “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” the signature 1976 track from […]

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  Complex

  Nas, Erykah Badu, Jhené Aiko, The Internet, and More to Perform at Smokin Grooves Festival 2022

  Nas, Erykah Badu, Jhené Aiko, The Internet, and more are slated to perform at the forthcoming neo-soul event, Smokin Grooves Festival on March 19, 2022 in L.A.

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  Esquire

  Barack Obama's Summer Playlist Shows Off His Encyclopedic Knowledge of Music

  There are some seriously deep cuts on this mix.

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  Entertainment Weekly

  Review roundup: Lianne La Havas' left-leaning pop, the Psychedelic Furs' melancholy, Roy Ayers returns

  A (quick) critical rundown on three recent albums.

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  LA Times

  L.A. jazz-soul legend Roy Ayers has a new album, and new hope for the future

  Oft-sampled vibraphonist Roy Ayers will turn 80 this fall, and his new album, recorded in L.A. on the Jazz Is Dead label, is both silky-smooth and prescient.

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  Pitchfork

  Roy Ayers to Release First Album in 9 Years This Week, Shares New Song: Listen

  The jazz-funk legend has teamed up with Adrian Younge and A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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