Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows
Syl Johnson was a blues and soul artist who never made the big time like Al Green, yet today he’s one of the most sampled performers around.
Syl Johnson was a blues and soul artist who never made the big time like Al Green, yet today he’s one of the most sampled performers around.
Blunderbuss (Third Man Records). Review by Jen Cray.
Watch the Throne (Roc-A-Fella). Review by John Cogburn.
Original Samba Soul 1971-1979 (Strut). Review by Matthew Moyer.
San Francisco Debut, Unfinished Symphony (Kufala Recordings). Review by Shelton Hull.
Special Gunpowder (Tigerbeat6). Review by Bill Campbell.
Kings of Funk (BBE). Review by Bill Campbell.
Vincent & Mr. Green (Ipecac). Review by Kiran Aditham.
But you’d better believe that the ODB is having a blast as the ODG! J. Noise tries to see a silver lining in the first (of many) post-mortem cash-in albums.
Nicotine and caffeine are the narcotics of choice in Jim Jarmusch’s latest, a set of vignettes that pulls together some of Hollywood’s quirkiest talents. Rob Levy shakes off the jitters and cravings long enough to tell us all about it.
Pull Up a Table for Coffee & Cigarettes, by Jim Jarmusch, Bill Murray, alfred Molina, Steve Coogan, Iggy Pop, RZA, GZA, Tom Waits, Renee French,Meg White, Jack White
Legend of the Liquid Sword (MCA). Review by Bill Campbell.
Dead Ringer (Definitive Jux). Review by Bill Campbell.
Fuck The People (Ubiquity). Review by Bill Campbell.
The Hip-Hop Collection Vol. 1 (High Times). Review by Bill Campbell.
Arrhythmia (Warp). Review by Bill Campbell.
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar). Review by Peter Lindblad.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Both bold experiment and colossal failure in the 1960s, Esperanto language art house horror film Incubus returns with pre-_Star Trek_ William Shatner to claim a perhaps more serious audience.
You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not What I Used To Be (North & Left Records). Review by Randy Radic.
In this latest installment of his weekly series, Christopher Long is betrayed by his longtime GF when she swipes his copy of Loretta Lynn’s Greatest Hits Vol. II right out from under his nose while rummaging through a south Florida junk store.