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Music in the Workplace
Last week, “The New Orleans Agena” included this story: BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com – – A Silicon Valley manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment has agreed to pay $168,000 to settle a racial harassment […]
This is Tom Jones
At Tom Jones’ show at the House of Blues Tuesday night, a bartender said security didn’t work as hard as they did that night when working heavy metal shows. They […]
Morning 40 meets Andre Williams
Cristina Black – who once wrote for OffBeat – has a piece in the new Village Voice about Morning 40 Federation’s Ryan Scully and the work that went in to producing […]
For the Love of LaBelle
Saturday night at Essence Music Festival, the evening closes with a tribute to Patti LaBelle including a Labelle reunion with Sarah Dash and Nona Hendryx. I’m sure their reunion has […]
James Brown and Brian Eno
Two quick things: 1) Shout! Factory’s new three-DVD set, I’ve Got the Feelin’: James Brown in the ’60s, is a valuable corrective. Just as the final, bloated Elvis became the […]
A Cry for Sanity
Boy, Metacritic‘s scorecard suggests there is some seriously overheated love in the critical world for the reissue of Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue. I don’t remember the album being anywhere near […]
Credit Where Credit’s Due
In one of my posts about Kidd Jordan, I wrote that none of the city’s cultural organizations besides Anxious Sound had paid proper attention to Jordan. Cree McCree reminded me […]
Space is the Place
Lil Wayne has often referred to himself as an alien (as in Martian), and doing so on Tha Carter III has prompted writers to revisit the theme of the Afronaut, one […]
New Old Pop
Some good ol’ guitar-oriented pop: De Novo Dahl: Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound (Roadrunner): I love the Polyphonic Spree-ness of “Shout” and lose interest pretty quickly afterwards. It’ll be […]
On the Road Because …?
This passage by David Freedman from WWOZ’s “OZone” newsletter was brought to my attention this morning: Why does WWOZ go on the road for these remote live broadcasts [at Bonnaroo and […]
