Two Attempts To Turn Summer Platinum Into Fall Gold
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View ArticleBill Withers: The Everyman Singer With A Poet's Soul
Bill Withers' very first single became a breakout hit in 1971. He would go on to record nine albums over the next 14 years, and all of them are now available on a new box set, The Complete Sussex and...
View ArticleLady: Two Soul Stalwarts Find A New Groove Together
R&B singers Nicole Wray and Terri Walker both had promising starts to their careers more than ten years ago. Wray came up on the Virginia coast under the wing of mentor Missy Elliott. Walker, a...
View ArticleOn Two New R&B Albums, An Old Soul Sound That Glows
It's tempting to describe the voices of Charles Bradley and
View ArticleShuggie Otis: 40 Years Later, Still An 'Inspiration'
This isn't the first time Shuggie Otis' masterpiece, Inspiration Information,has been reissued — but that's OK. It's an album that absolutely deserves to be rediscovered every decade or so.Released...
View Article20 Years Ago, De La Soul Refused To Go Pop
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View ArticleGimme The Beat (Box): The Journey Of The Drum Machine
About 10 years ago, a disgruntled pianist in Los Angeles named John Wood began a popular bumper sticker campaign with the slogan, "Drum Machines Have No Soul." Not everyone was convinced, including...
View ArticleUnheard Bounty On Mobb Deep's First Album In Eight Years
Under most circumstances, the release of a new Mobb Deep album would be notable in and of itself.
View ArticleMusic Review: 'You're Dead!' By Flying Lotus
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Finally this hour, music that explores death not as end but as a beginning. It comes from Steven Ellison,...
View ArticleKanye West Plays Puppet Master With 'Life Of Pablo' Premiere
I'm not sure there's ever been a record release as confounding as the one for Kanye West's The Life Of Pablo.
View Article'James Brown: Live At The Apollo Vol. 4' Is A Marvelous And Mysterious Time...
The names James Brown and Apollo Theater have practically become synonymous; it's hard to think of one without the other. Beginning in 1963, Brown released three albums recorded there. But there was a...
View Article20 Years Ago Biz Markie Got The Last Laugh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OebqNsNRBtU In the late 1980s, no clique in New York seemed more dominant than the Juice Crew. Assembled by producer Marley Marl, the group's core included the...
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