Tom Tom Club
The Good The Bad and the Funky (Nacional). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
The Good The Bad and the Funky (Nacional). Review by Julius C. Lacking.
Hailing from the southwest of France, The Llamps build on a sound that’s equal parts New York City grit, San Francisco psychedelia, and spaghetti Western twang, which makes for a pan-global main dish.
Ronna Reason EP (Damaged Disco). Review by Carole Jaszewski.
How do you dethrone the “King of Pop”? Let the current king disappear to Bahrain and get sued for $7 million by an Arab sheik; take your kaleidoscopic and playful songs to California’s Westlake Studios where Michael Jackson recorded Thriller; or simply be a boy named Pop. Pop Levi goes 2 of 3 and emerges with Never Never Love, an album shot through with the ghosts of Prince, MJ, and R. Kelly. S D Green and the musical shape-shifter talk the process of Pop.
Child of No Nation (). Review by Kyrby Raine.
My Fever Broke EP (Instinct). Review by Bill Campbell.
The Tom Tom Club at The State Theatre in St. Petersburg, FL on September 29, 2001. Concert review by Bob Pomeroy.
Gorillaz (Virgin). Review by Julio Diaz.
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.