A pair of big-selling 1980s albums from either end of the rock spectrum get the deluxe reissue treatment, one the then-emerging indie-rockers R.E.M. and the other the confirmed pop-rock stars Huey Lewis and the News.
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"Don't Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight:" Steve Jenkins feat.
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Living Colour not only rocked the '80s musically, they rocked it with racial diversity.
Read MoreIt's a new month, and that means plenty of new 9:30 Club shows to get excited about.
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On Saturday night, Vince, Kip and I enjoyed a ménage à brois and went to Irving Plaza to check out Living Colour live.
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Political statements in heavy metal became common during the late Eighties, as evidenced by Metallica's "Disposable Heroes," Megadeth's "Peace Sells" and Living Colour's "Cult of Personality."
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Bill Frisell's appearance last Saturday with Marianne Faithfull at Paris' New Morning club was another reminder of the jazz guitarist's often underrated affinity for pop and rock music.
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As mentioned, Living Colour is busy gearing up to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Vivid.
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Living Colour, a band that still makes Vince and I feel like giddy fanboys, are currently working on a new album , and now we have our fist sampling of music from that album: a cover of Robert Johnson's "Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)," which the band performed at the Million Man Mosh II event in NYC recently, and which they say will appear on the aforementioned new release.
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Running this website for six years has afforded me no shortage of bucket list moments, but one of the most memorable is easily the near-private concert Living Colour performed in Brooklyn in 2009 to preview their new album The Chair in the Doorway.
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We've each already had our say, individually.
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Strictly speaking, the Mayan calendar doesn't end at all — not on Friday, not ever.
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In the final piece of these exhaustive, four-part salutes to the top releases of 2012, the fusion jazz records are surveyed.
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In one way or another, each of these recordings confounded and delighted me.
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Last night's Rock for Light benefit featured a rotating cast of musicians who all sat in on Bad Brains songs at Bowery Electric.
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Like many other East Village and Lower East Side venues , The Bowery Electric is closed for the next few days due to Hurricane Sandy aftermath.
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Stuck on a desert island, you're going to want to rock every once in a while, right?
Read MorePolitical statements in heavy metal became common during the late Eighties, as evidenced by Metallica's "Disposable Heroes," Megadeth's "Peace Sells" and Living Colour's "Cult of Personality."
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As a prime mover on New York's downtown "No Wave" scene in the early 1980s, Tomas Doncker cut his teeth as a guitarist with such genre-busting groups as James Chance & The Contortions, Defunkt, J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz and many more.
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Top 10 list, we've decided to introduce a mid-year edition — for those who simply can't wait for the Christmas sales to start gathering the very best new music.
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I hadn't thought about this song in years, but as I was writing another piece, I stumbled across a 2010 cover of it by Jackyl and Darryl McDaniels of Run-D.M.C. I thought it was pretty good.
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Already, we've seen the blues and jazz genres enlivened by a series of out-of-nowhere surprises that included Little Feat, Wes Montgomery (yes, Wes Montgomery!) and Bonnie Raitt — even as a new supergroup of fusion-heroes formed.
Read MorePolitical statements in heavy metal became common during the late Eighties, as evidenced by Metallica's "Disposable Heroes," Megadeth's "Peace Sells" and Living Colour's "Cult of Personality."
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Yohimbe Brothers was a project teaming up Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid , a guy who seemingly never met a one-off collaboration he wouldn't fuck, and Philly's DJ Logic , a fine turntablist who has unfortunately become a fixture on the jam band circuit as of late... so he seemingly has never meant a mushroom-gobbling white girl with hairy ampits that he wouldn't fuck.
Read MoreProgressive music simply dominated the Top 10 for May 2012, as readers celebrated new music (and interviews!) from Squackett, UK, Asia and Spectrum Road. Items featuring Chris Squire, Steve Hackett, John Wetton and Spectrum Road's Vernon Reid took up an amazing six spots.
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At the same time that Miles Davis was pioneering a spacious, hypnotic type of jazz-rock fusion , his recently departed drummer Tony Williams was inventing a more explosive, intense variety of fusion borne of hard-nosed jamming originally with guitarist John McLaughlin and organist Larry Young.
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On each of their albums, Galactic 's dizzying blend of funk, jazz, rock, zydeco, R&B, and hip hop flavored with an array of Latin and African styles simmers to a boil and encapsulates the true spirit of New Orleans.
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Vernon Reid has a busy 2012 on tap, with a new jazz-rock collaboration as a part of Spectrum Road to be issued next month and then a reunion project planned with Living Colour.
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Founding Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid is playing a different tune these days – a hard-driving jazz-rock tune alongside an all-star cast of Jack Bruce, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman-Santana.
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Jack Bruce, Vernon Reid, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman Santana.
Read MoreEarlier this week, The Blues Hall of Fame held an all-star benefit concert, dubbed "Robert Johnson at 100," at the Apollo Theater here in New York. In case the title didn't give it away, the concert featured a whole mess of cool artists — including Elvis Costello, Taj Mahal, Chuck D., and Macy Gray — performing covers of the legendary guitarist's music.
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Living Colour's 3rd album and last before hanging up their cleats for the better part of a decade — so the band's been tweeting some audio and videos odds and ends pertaining to songs on that album.
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Cream drummer Ginger Baker will be the subject of an upcoming film, "Beware of Mr. Baker."
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Funk band Galactic has an uncanny ability to create a musical canvas that could lend itself to other styles of music.
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Legendary Cream bassist Jack Bruce is part of a new supergroup, this one featuring Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid. Check them out here!
Read MoreGalactic's playful blend of acid, jazz fusion, and New Orleans Dixieland is getting a revival here in D.C. Its founding members Robert Mercurio and Jeff Raines, from the District, will bring the parade to the 9:30 Club this Thursday, February 23rd, and we have a pair of tickets for you to win.
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The Black Rock Coalition is presenting the Million Man Mosh: A Benefit For Donovan Drayton.
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If You Want Loyalty Buy A Dog is the culmination of a 25 year long musical partnership between producer Adrian Sherwood and musician, Skip 'Little Axe' McDonald.
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In what just may be the freak-nastiest Yuletide-themed track ever, Holidelic takes Tchaikovsky's delicately ornate "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" on a grave-spinningly fonky ride.
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Guitarist Bill Frisell, the jazz guy, issues a terrific tribute to John Lennon today , titled All We Are Saying.
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