and make it a good one
No dust on Sonny Burgess Sonny Burgess had his first hit for Sun Records in 1956 two minutes and 26 seconds of howling wild-ass stomp called "We Wanna Boogie." PACE SETTER We came straight out of the cotton fields, except for Elvis, who was a city boy, recalls Burgess (second from left) of his days at Sun Studios. Sonny Burgess had his first hit for Sun Records in 1956 two minutes and 26 ...
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Sun days
Twin Sister lay their shimmering dreamscapes bare When writers discuss Twin Sister's music, the word "dreamy" invariably pops up. It's not just a regurgitated cliché. NICE PEOPLE: Remix-friendly Twin Sister put their tricks on the table. When writers discuss Twin Sister's music, the word "dreamy" invariably pops up. It's not just a regurgitated cliché. The Long Island quintet spread this notion ...
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The sweet escape
Pick Hits Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman Dual Identity | Clean Feed Two alto saxmen, rising stars at least according to Downbeat 's critics, in a free-jazz quintet mediated by guitarist Liberty Ellman. Mahanthappa has sopped up Coltrane and the Karna...
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Jazz Consumer Guide: Mocking Traditions, or Joining Them
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlings front may be a front Not that theyd be the first band to pad their résumé in their one-sheet, but even by industry standards, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlings backstory tests the threshold of plausibility. Not that theyd be the first band to pad their résumé in their one-sheet, but even by industry standards, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlings backstory tests ...
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Ruse music
Gilberto Gil is one of the rare foxes managing to carve an almost five-decade career while remaining in the shadows of larger names that have come and gone. While successfully spreading the beauty of Brazilian music across the continents, he's done the same for Brazilian listeners by infusing the st...
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Gilberto Gil Brings Brazilian Beat to Broward Center (Broward-Palm Beach New Times)
East London–based DJ and producer Jamie Jones is continually switching between spinning electro-tinged, druggy tech-house and sampling rare cosmic disco records. That results in sets that are more than 50 percent custom re-edits, but with certain common elements. "It's all about the ...
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Jamie Jones (SF Weekly)
"I didn't watch the whole thing—I know what state the union's in," says Gil Scott-Heron, sizing up his reflection in his living room's enormous TV—it's half the size of the wall, glossy, and incongruous in the 60-year-old's small, cluttered Harlem apartment. He doesn't see so well, he...
More here: Rebooting Gil Scott-Heron's Untelevised Revolution (The Village Voice)
When a guy named Romeo points at your girl, who is sitting right next to you, and purrs, "He can't be your man, 'cause I'm your man," you can assume you're in big trouble. "He can't be your papi , 'cause I'm your papi ," this impossibly suave interloper adds, triggering the eve...
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This year was such a good one for heavy music, I wound up having to cheat when putting this list together. I just couldn't settle on ten albums that kicked my ass the hardest in 2009; there ...
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We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end, and failing repeatedly to understand the hype behind the Avett Brothers in the process. While a year of listening brought no shortage of pleasant surprises, our hands-down favo...
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Don't Forget These Ten Stellar Albums in the Genres of Americana and Folk (Broward-Palm Beach New Times)