Album/Song Reviews
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CinqueCatch A Corner
CD Really, it could only be Steve Gadd’s ghost-stroke-laden, slightly behind the beat, super funky pattern that’s heard on “Conflicting Advice,” the opening track on Catch a Corner, a hip jazz-funk disc featuring B3 great Joey DeFrancesco. Halfway through the…
Rival SonsPressure and Time
CD This album’s easy to love. As enjoyable as Jack White’s recent foray into funky, riff-tastic garage rock with the Dead Weather has been, Rival Sons seem to inhabit that world even more comfortably. Bathed in a hugely enjoyable…
Music Of Nat Pwe: Folk And Pop Music Of Myanmar Vol. 3
Burma (or Myanmar, depending on who you talk to) has been in the news lately, and the country's music is fascinating, especially from a percussion standpoint. Last week we posted a review of Princess Nicotine: Folk And Pop Music Of…