Reviews
Legends & Legacies
In the world of accordion-driven Tejano conjunto music, or Tex-Mex, the Grammy-award winners Flaco Jiménez and Max Baca are both...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Bailar en la Cueva
Bailar en la Cueva (Dance in the Cave) starts much like any other Jorge Drexler album; the Uruguayan's gentle voice...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Sendero Místico
Bands such as Chicha Libre and Los Chinches have already shown that chicha – essentially cumbia with guitars – sounds...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Metal Metal
Who knows if it was anarchic perverseness, artistic vision, or a bit of both that prompted this formidable São Paulo...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Tomorrow People: The Best of Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers
The Melody Makers, on the surface, look like Jamaica's version of the Jacksons. Featuring four of Bob Marley's numerous children...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Loving a Fool
This debut album, funded through a Kickstarter campaign, is a masterclass in presenting old and new side by side. Tumbling...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Encyclopedia of Arto
A founding member of seminal New York ‘no wave’ band DNA and long a guitar-shredding pivot of New York's downtown...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Love's Lies
The Magnolia Sisters consist of four women – Ann Savoy, Jane Vidrine, Anya Burgess and Lisa Trahan – who come...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
Brasil Bam Bam Bam
‘What was a French boy, living in South London, doing putting up aerials at the age of 15 so he...
Reviewed in issue July/2014
