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Chris Thomas King thinks blues should move forward
I had recorded an album in '91 or '92 that was the first album where a blues artist used digital sampling technology. I was the first blues artist to have an album with rapping on it. It was a ground-breaking album, and I wanted the record to come out, …
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News: Diggy Simmons, Odd Future & Melanie Fiona's First-Week Sales Projections …
Controversial LA rap collective Odd Future arrives with their much-ballyhooed Columbia/RED bow, the curiously titled The Odd Future Tape Vol. 2, which looks set to sell between 35-40k. SRC/Universal Republic Canadian R&B singer Melanie Fiona returns …
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Album Review: s / s / s – Beak & Claw
By Lainna Fader on March 22nd, 2012 in Album Reviews Eight years ago, Baroque pop singer Sufjan Stevens dropped Illinois, an album that charted on the Billboard 200 and earned such widespread critical praise for its breathtaking beauty that review …
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Album Review: s / s / s – Bear & Claw
By Lainna Fader on March 22nd, 2012 in Album Reviews Eight years ago, Baroque pop singer Sufjan Stevens dropped Illinois, an album that charted on the Billboard 200 and earned such widespread critical praise for its breathtaking beauty that review …
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Talking Book : blues, jazz, dub, rap, song and freedom in the literature and orature of Montreal’s Kalmunity Vive Collective

This anthology collects the words and thoughts of Kalmunitys rappers,dub poets, jazz poets, singers, and musicians as they reflect oncollective improvisation, freedom, love, history, politics, and thedivine. Two percussion players, one trap drummer, a bassist, aguitarist, a keyboardist, and three horn players cram onto a floor-levelstage. Twelve vocalists squat stage right, waiting for their chance totouch the mic. The air crackles with anticipation. In the crowd, Blacks,Browns, Whites are packed together so tightly that, as in the LangstonHughes poem about riding the New York subway, there is no room forfear. One person inhales anothers language. Welcome to KalmunitysLive Organic Improv at Montreal’s Sablo Kaf.Essays by Dbi Young, Klyde Brooks, Dave Austin, Naila Keleta Mae, AndyWilliams, and others, explore the relationship that jazz improvisationbears to social organizing, the politics of stage performance, overviewsof the black music and oral poetry scenes in Montral. Talking Bookincludes a special section on songs and songwriting, onin-the-moment-live-organic improvisation.*kaie kellough* is an author, performer, educator, editor, and activearts organizer. His words make sound blue sense and be bop inflected.His first book, /lettricity/, was published in 2004. He was writer inresidence for the 2005 Toronto Int’l Dub Poetry Festival. He hasperformed across Canada and in the United States. His work has beenfeatured on national radio and television.*Jason “Blackbird” Selman* is a graduate of Concordia University with aBachelor of Fine Arts (specialization in Jazz Studies). He has beenperforming on the local arts scene as both spoken word artist andmusician for the last eight years. For the last two years Jason has alsoserved as a facilitator for the Black Theatre Workshops Youth Workstheatre program. Mr. Selman continues to fulfill himself both musicallyand poetically as part of the Kalmunity Vibe Collective.

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G. Love embraces pure country blues of his youth
To paraphrase a lyric from his 1994 debut album, G. Love is getting back to the things that he used to do. The Philadelphia native has just released a new album, “Fixin’ to Die,” that focuses on the sounds he absorbed as a teenager.
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The Streets, Picture House, Edinburgh
After 10 years, five albums and waves of adoration, The Streets are falling silent. Mike Skinner has decided to call a halt to the project that made his name and reputation in order to concentrate on other interests, including acting and the discovery of new talent through his own label. Few will argue that stepping away now is anything but a good idea.
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