Sunday, May 19, 2013

Голос кочевников : Dengue Fever Live in Ulan Ade, Buryatia, Siberia, Russia? Oh yeah, baby, right there, that’s good…

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  My glorious career as a music promoter lasted a total of one band (I count time in personalities, not days-months-years).  ...
Friday, February 22, 2013

SIXTO RODRIGUEZ: A Tale of Three Continents… and the #MassMarketing of #BigBox #America

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Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Cuarto, Quinto, and… and… Sixto, ahhhh…  And the sixth time was a charm (not that the first five weren’t)...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

MALI’S JIHAD #4, and Counting: The Day the Music Stopped

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It’s horrible, of course, the war currently going on in Mali, the desecration of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu, and the disruption of...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Great Travelers, Great Stories

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Traveling through space is geography.   Traveling through time is history.   I just finished reading the Travels of Marco Polo and ...
Monday, October 08, 2012

GOLDTHWAIT’S FILM “GOD BLESS AMERICA” HOLDS THE MIRROR UP TO ALL OF US

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It is the best of times; it is the worst of times.   We make love to our iPhones and our egos, while begrudging food...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

KEROUAC vs. ROLLINS, CRITIQUES or CRITICISMS, POLITICS & POLITENESS, AND THE GLORY THAT WAS PEORIA

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I’ve often speculated that our golden age—like many others before it—must sooner or later be followed by a corresponding dark age o...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

A BAND CALLED CARAMELO, FLAMENCO OF MANUEL AGUJETAS, & THE FILMS OF CARLOS SAURA

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A couple weeks ago I was listening to KPFK and their special guest was Manuel Agujetas, the flamenco master vocalist.  The occasion was ...
Monday, April 16, 2012

LoCura’s “Semilla Caminante”—Latin Fusionistas to the Cor…azon

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If fusion is the concept that informs the modern era as much or more than any other, then so it is in music, too.  The more influences ...
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Monday, March 05, 2012

DEL CASTILLO’s "Infinitas Rapsodias": Guitar String Theory En Espanol

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If music reviewers had to be certifiably impartial judges in order to air their opinions in these not-so-hallowed nets and webs of intri...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Kami Thompson’s “Love Lies”: Folk Music Goes Around Until It Comes Back Around

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I’ve been waiting a long time for folk music to make a comeback, without really knowing exactly what that would sound like if it did indee...