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Cat Shell Channels a Classic Sound with Soul and Savvynew
As a self-described 20-something, Cat Shell is far too young to be have been stung by the bitter circumstances that afflicted her torch-singing forebears like Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Lee Zimmerman |
04-15-2008 |
Reviews
Al Matos' New Age Klezmernew
The longtime klezmer enthusiast takes his beloved music to the masses.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
04-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Looking Back at the Life and Legacy of Mikey Dreadnew
Like most tales of triumph and tragedy, the life, career, and untimely passing of the reggae pioneer at age 53 will live on long beyond his time on earth.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
04-08-2008 |
Music
Tags: Mikey Dread, Reggae
Rootz Underground Returns to Roots Rocknew
These cats should definitely make a smash on the global reggae scene in 2008, and if you're curious what else is hot in the genre besides standard dancehall tunes, MOVEMENT is the answer.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
03-25-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: MOVEMENT, Rootz Underground
Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guynew
If you cruise the internet, there's a small social phenomenon developing, with folks who like to compare their favorite misheard lyrics and trade stories about individual songs. From a colloquial standpoint, misheard lyrics are known as mondegreens.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
03-04-2008 |
Music
Not Your Father's N Wordnew
Eight months after its "burial," the world's most dangerous epithet is more popular than ever in hip-hop.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Ben Westhoff |
03-04-2008 |
Music
Willie Stewart, the Drum Healernew
The former Third World drummer shows how the beat goes on.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
02-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Willie Stewart
Bedouins, Reggae, Sounds, and Clashesnew
With relaxed immigration and a stronger currency than the U.S. (ahem), Toronto isn't a bad city in which to be a musician, create a genre or two, or at least home in on the next mashup trends those gringos to the south haven't figured out yet.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bedouin Soundclash, Street Gospels
Jim Wurster's 'Hallelujah' is Darknew
Surveying a broad swath of iconic American musical forms -- folk, country, blues, and gospel -- the album has a bleak perspective that's as dark as its stark black cover.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Lee Zimmerman |
01-29-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Hallelujah, Jim Wurster
A Dose of Feelgoodnew
How else would the warm-up band kick off the opening-night party for a bar owned by Vince Neil?
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Deirdra Funcheon |
01-29-2008 |
Music
Tags: Vince Neil
Surf-and-Turf Rocknew
Perpetual Groove takes its jams aboard the high seas, then returns for the landlubbers.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
01-15-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Perpetual Groove
I Hear Florida Singingnew
Some Florida lawmakers think it's finally time to jump into the 21st Century and get a new state song.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
01-08-2008 |
Music
Eclectic Latin Rockers Café Tacuba Defy Distinctionnew
In gringo terms, you can think of them as the Mexican U2. But with costumes, polka dancing, and music that makes you act instead of think, their live shows are much more interesting than anything Bono and the boys have come up with in years.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
12-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cafe Tacuba, Sino
What the Funk?new
Barbés Records' latest disc, The Roots of Chicha, unearths the master recordings from a group of Amazonian musicians of the late '60s who made a meager living combining indigenous music with Western surf rock, wah-wah pedals, and mind-altering funk overtones.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
12-18-2007 |
Reviews
Jukebox in the Skynew
I've been playing with a few phones lately, chiefly the iPhone and the Motorazr from Sprint, testing their features to try to figure out why people would want to make cell phones their preferred method of listening.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
12-11-2007 |
Music
