Me'Shell Ndegéocello

The hubbub surrounding neo-soul stalwart Meshell Ndegeocello began to dissipate around the time she dropped all the weird apostrophes and accent marks from her name, but she's stayed plenty busy over the past decade, guesting on other artists' records and embarking on her own offbeat sonic adventures. Read More

MeShell Ndegeocello may very well be one of the most novel recording artists alive. Read More

To immerse oneself in the music of Meshell Ndegeocello is to be reminded that the spirits of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Jimi Hendrix still reside among the living. Read More

Meshell Ndegeocello has been the future of funk for 16 years, confidently acting up in moments of spacey 21st century funk and/or powerful punk attitude. Read More

"If you could lick your balls," chuckles Meshell Ndegeocello , "you would!" Read More

The stellar 2003 Dolly Parton tribute album, Just Because I'm a Woman , features a fine batch of rock and country flavored arrangements of Dolly Parton songs performed by Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, and Melissa Etheridge, amongst others. Read More

I had the very happy, accidental, pleasure of hearing Meshell Ndegeocello play live at the House of Blues in New Orleans sometime in the late 1990's. Read More

7:30 p.m. Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre (MSU), Bogue and Shaw, East Lansing. 517-432-2000. $35. Read More

FEDERICO AUBELE , DEPEDRO at the Troubadour; THE BANGLES at Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts ; KFMDM, ANGEL SPIT at Club Nokia ; DAN DEACON, NUCLEAR POWER PANTS at Eagle Rock Center for the Arts ; A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS , DARKER MY LOVE , ALL THE SAINTS at the Echo; DAVID GARRETT at El Rey Theatre; MAXWELL, COMMON, CHRISETTE MICHELLE at the Hollywood Bowl ; KELLY JOE PHELPS at McCabe 's; KASKADE at the Hollywood Palladium ; JAMIE FOXX at Nokia Theatre ; AIMEE MANN , FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE at the Wiltern; PAT BENATAR & NEIL GIRALDO at the Canyon; B-SIDE PLAYERS at the Mint; MIKE WATT & HIS SECONDMEN at the Redwood Bar & Grill. Read More

As sinisterly ambiguous as its title, the primary theme of Meshell Ndegeocello 's brand new album Devil's Halo is the treachery of love, which in her nearly unremittingly grim view leads to groveling, bitterness, even death. Read More