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.
Evolution (Blue Note Records). Review by James Mann.
Rock the Bells kicked off its 2009 hip-hop festival tour in Chicago – just two days after Michael Jackson’s sudden death. Chris Catania took in this year’s finest while ruminating on the psychology of a crowd in mourning.
LA Heat (No Threshold). Review by Chris Catania.
Class of 3000: Music Volume One (La Face Records / Cartoon Network). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Appendix (K7!). Review by Bob Ham.
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.
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The Hillside Scramblers (INDIEgo). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Graymatter (Rapster). Review by Stein Haukland.
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Legend of the Liquid Sword (MCA). Review by Bill Campbell.
The EP (Etheric). Review by Stein Haukland.
Dirty South Hip-Hop Blues (21st Century Blues). Review by Rob Walsh.
Mad Men on Arrival (Hum Drums / Illmindmusik). Review by Henry “Hank” McCoy.
Arrhythmia (Warp). Review by Bill Campbell.
Devil’s Night (Shady/Interscope). Review by Julio Diaz.
It is probably spoiled to malign the latest Wu-Tang effort simply because the…
A young dancer becomes a legal genius in this fun and fast musical comedy.
Forgotten ’70s action film Fear Is the Key is as gritty as the faces of the men who populate it. Phil Bailey reviews the splashy new Blu-ray.
Coffin Joe returns in a comprehensive Blu-ray collection from Arrow Video, Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe.
Bob’s been looking for a replacement copy of the rare John Cale release Sabotage/Live (1979, Spy Records) since 1991. He still hasn’t found a copy at a reasonable price, but a random YouTube video allowed him to listen and reminisce.
Hidden gem and hallmark of second-generation martial arts film, 1978’s The Shaolin Plot manages to provide a glimpse of things to come. Charles DJ Deppner reviews Arrow Video’s pristine Blu-ray release, which gives this watershed masterpiece the prestige and polish it richly deserves.
The HawtThorns invite you to soar, with the premiere of “Zero Gravity.”
There’s nothing as humiliating as a cattle call. Unless it’s a cattle call in your undies.