Hey gang, Nick and Mike here, producers of Lost Notes.

We haven't been in your feeds for a while, we know, but we are hard at work on a third season of Lost Notes, we're telling you today.

And we are so pleased to say that we are working on it with Hanif Abdurkeet.

You might remember him as the man behind our episode about Cat Power last season. We loved it.

He's a poet, essayist, and

cultural critic. He's based in Columbus, Ohio. His book about a tribe called Quest came out last year.

It was super critically acclaimed. It made the New York Times bestseller list. I just loved it.

And if you don't know that book, it's called Go Ahead in the Rain. You should read it immediately. We're going to do something a little different this season with Hanif.

He's not just curating our stories. He's also writing and producing all of the stories this season.

And they are all based on one theme and actually on one year, 1980.

Yeah, not the entire decade, just that year.

So much happened in 1980. It was the first album by the

Sugar Hill Gang, which is an iconic early hip-hop record. We lost John Lennon, Darby Crash, and

Ian Curtis that year. The Walkman was introduced by Sony. It was just a huge year for music and technology.

And we can't wait to share her new stories with you.

Meantime, we have a couple of bonus episodes for you this summer,

and we are sharing the first one right now.

It's about the Black Panther Party,

but more specifically about their house band,

an R&B band that the party put together

to help spread their message of revolution.

That band was called The Lumpin.

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