Kelly Hafner
If It’s Love (Smokey Jazz Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
If It’s Love (Smokey Jazz Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
2011 Grammy Nominees (Columbia Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Relayted (Jagjaguwar). Review by Matthew Moyer.
jj no.3 (Secretly Canadian). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Operating in a genre dominated by paint-by-numbers R&B, Zaki Ibrahim paints soul – outside the lines – with a purple paint brush. S D Green talks to the emergent Canadian soulstress about globalism in her sound, the unlikely influence of Tom Waits, and why critics refuse to believe Canadian artists have soul.
Body & Soul (Self released). Review by Kyrby Raine.
Last Night (Beggars Banquet / 4AD). Review by Kiran Aditham.
The music industry pats itself on the back again tonight with the annual Grammy Awards. Julio Diaz offers a preview with his picks for who deserves to win and who will win.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.