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Music Review: Pascal Bokar – ‘Guitar Balafonics’
All Bokar’s passions are on display on his February release, 'Guitar Balafonics.'
Read More »Music Review: zzips – ‘20 Years Late’
Can you guess how many years this album was in the making?
Read More »Music Review: Little Richard – ‘Directly From My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years’
Most of the rock and roll from Little Richard's early career is collected here on three discs, including all the big hits.
Read More »Music Review: Paul Doffing – ‘Songs from the (quaking) Heart’
‘Songs from the (quaking) Heart’ is a three act play with a grand finale.
Read More »Music Review: Sonia Wieder Atherton – ‘Little Girl Blue: From Nina Simone’
Close your eyes and Atherton’s cello embodies not one, but the many voices of the unique singer.
Read More »Music Review: Rooftop Revolutionaries – ‘White’ EP
On 'White,' by the Rooftop Revolutionaries, lead singer Eleanor Goldfield provides wailing, throat-ripping vocals. Imagine a hybrid of Joan Jett and Patty Smyth pumped up on performance enhancing substances.
Read More »Music Review: Steve Benjamins – ‘Sightlines’ EP
The six tracks on ‘Sightlines’ range from downtempo pop to dance/house-flavoured.
Read More »Music Reviews: Jazz Singers Times Four – Rebecca DuMaine, Michael Dees, Steve Cromity, Joanna Wallfisch
New albums from contemporary jazz singers with varying agendas.
Read More »Concert-Theater Review: ‘L’Amfiparnaso,’ a Madrigal Comedy from 1594 by Orazio Vecchi Performed by The Western Wind
Voices simulate the ringing of bells and the knocking-on of doors as effectively as they convey the desperation of foiled lovers, the comic scheming of the servant class, and the self-satisfied prancing of the smug.
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