Wednesday, August 11, 2010

“… HIP-HOP CHILDREN OF BE-BOP PARENTS…”, LA GETS HIP WITH DAAOOD, TRIBLE, AND THE WHOLE INDUS VALLEY

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I haven’t heard anything like it since listening to Jack Kerouac over Steve Allen’s piano (on tape, a**hole, I’m not THAT old)… okay, so m...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

PETE E TOPS MUSICAL WEEK IN LA

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Well, this week in free outdoor entertainment- particularly of the world music variety- got off to a bit of a slow start this ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

JAZZ, SUPER STRINGS, & LA SEMANA PERUANA

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Well, things got off to a shaky start last Thursday when I found out that the group I was expecting to see and hear- ‘Palenke Soultrib...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

WORLD MUSIC HEATS UP LA- Beat the Donkey, Wil-Dog, and Tommy Castro

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Ahhh! It’s that time of year again, like it or not. Last week the temps were up to almost three figures Fahrenheit and the blood so ...
Friday, July 02, 2010

MAGNIFICATION by MAGNIFICO- Hawaiian Surfing Spaghetti Western Balkan Music

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Most Americans had probably never heard of Slovenia until the US soccer team came up against them head to head in recent World Cup play...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

LAYA PROJECT- SIX COUNTRIES, THREE RELIGIONS, ONE OCEAN + ONE DISASTER = WHOLE LOTTA MUSIC

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Even before the Boxing Day Tsunami hit the Indian Ocean in 2004 I knew something was wrong. I was lying in bed enjoying the moment in ...
Thursday, June 03, 2010

FEUFOLLET’s En Couleurs- Cajun Indie? Mais oui…

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Anybody who thinks that zydeco is what Cajun music is all about is missing the boat, literally, the boats that brought settlers expelled b...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

'82' by 'Just a Band'- Ethereal Soulful Hip Hop Trance?

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It was bound to happen... and it IS happening... little by little. The new cultural democracy fostered by the likes of MySpace, FaceBook, a...