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Jon Sobel is Blogcritics' Culture and Theater Editor. In addition to reviewing NYC theater, he writes a semi-regular round-up of independent music releases. By day he is a computer professional and a freelance writer and editor, and at night he's a working musician: lead singer, songwriter, and bass player for Whisperado, a founding member of the Kings County Blues Band, and a sideman. His most recent venture is Oren Hope Marketing and Copywriting, through which you can hire him to write whatever marketing materials your heart desires.
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CD Review: Keb' Mo', Peace... Back By Popular Demand
Keb' Mo's style enables him to find a place in today's pop(ular) consciousness, and that's a tough thing to do without compromising artistic integrity. More power to artists like Keb'Mo' who can do it.
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CD Review: Melissa Mulligan, Love This Life
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CD Review: David Jacobs-Strain, Ocean or a Teardrop
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CD Review: Lythion - ...From the Beginning
"Kate Bush crossed with Brian Eno" might hint at what to expect here, but it wouldn't convey the full range of musical idioms blended by this duo.
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CD Review: Brad Wilson - Brad Wilson
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Between Two Rivers - by Nicholas Rinaldi
Though his New Yorkers live somewhat dreamy lives, Rinaldi’s New York is not a modern-day version of Mark Helprin’s from A Winter’s Tale (though Echo Terrace’s rooftop Independence Day party bears a distant relation to Helprin’s images of TB victims lying on rooftops all over Manhattan). It’s not even Woody Allen’s. It’s the real thing.
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Luka Bloom: Before Sleep Comes
Luka Bloom's music has always had a dreamy quality. When you get right down to it, he's a crooner, after all. But his new 28-minute CD is all dreamy, all the time.
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Richard "Groove" Holmes: Super Soul
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Michelle Anthony: Stand Fall Repeat
A fine bass player and pianist, Anthony, who is model-thin, has a powerful, rich voice reminiscent of Mama Cass or Ellen McIlwaine. But her sensibility, in spite of the CD's relatively lush arrangements, has more in common with the starkness of Lucinda Williams or Liz Phair.
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The Self-Destruction Handbook
This little book cleverly satirizes America's obsessions with sex, health and various vices. Filled with bizarro-world table turning, plain absurdity, and acute observations of familiar social phenomena that no one likes to talk about, it would make a great gift for anyone who can take a joke.
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