Reviews
Music is Our Business
Not many names from the golden age of dancehall in the 80s seem worthy of a Best Of. The obvious...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2019
Don Letts Presents Culture Clash Radio
Don Letts started as DJ at the Roxy, the first London punk club, and this has allowed him to enjoy...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2017
Some Other Land
Perhaps best known for his work as fiddler for The Treacherous Orchestra, Session A9 and Peatbog Faeries, Adam Sutherland is...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2018
Seu Jorge and Almaz
This covers album is a radical departure from a standard Seu Jorge samba-funk album and those expecting the swinging, soulful...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Toubab Soul
As this solid debut testifies, Alma Afrobeat Ensemble is one of the tighter collectives in the genre. Fela Kuti’s template...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2011
Foggy Mountain Breakdown: A Bluegrass Tribute to Earl Scruggs
A couple of years ago, Tim Austin, one of the founders of the Lonesome River Band, kickstarted a project that...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2012
Blight and Blossom
Leader of the new-generation Albion Band, son of folk¬rock guv’nor Ashley Hutchings and the child actor who played the young...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
Songs of the Summer Realm
In 1960, Lerner and Loewe brought Camelot to the Broadway stage. In 1975, Rick Wakeman gave King Arthur the prog-rock...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: October/2020
The Importance of Being Espetacular
Thiago França Presents A Espetacular Charanga Do França
The avant-garde saxophonist, samba revivalist and Metá Metá co-founder Thiago França has been running the Carnaval charanga band A Espetacular...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: November/2021
