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The cyborg and the sistah

Janet’s Discipline and Badu’s New AmErykah
What’s in a fantasy world?
By CHARLES TAYLOR | March 17, 2008

Show and tell

A whole new year of live music
After a brief late-December break from the usual boatload of good shows, the flood picks up right where it left off in early January.
By WILL SPITZ | January 04, 2008

Travis Morrison and his Hellfighters
Former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrison has a new album, and though he says it’s not a solo disc, you’d be forgiven for thinking so.
By MIKAEL WOOD | November 15, 2007

Rooting for Rhythm

Digging deep in Charlestown; plus, the Complaints
You can bet that this week Rhythm & Roots Festival producer Chuck Wentworth will be spending a lot of time looking up at the sky — and hoping.
By BOB GULLA | August 28, 2007

Zap Mama

Supermoon | Heads up
Any similarities between Zap Mama 2007 and the group who bore that name in 1990 is purely coincidental.
By JEFF TAMARKIN | July 30, 2007

Before and after the Riot

Sly Stone’s lost utopia
When Sly Stone sang “Listen to the voices,” who could have known that, in just three years, voices of an entirely different sort would take him over?
By CHARLES TAYLOR | June 12, 2007

Robert Randolph & The Family Band

Colorblind | Warner Bros.
The disc captures the adrenal rush of the live shows from Randolph and his cousins, a hypercaffeinated mix of classic rock, blues, slow-grind R&B, and Sly Stone–style funk.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | October 17, 2006

No success like failure

The Roots and OutKast step into the future
The wild, idle guessing game over the Roots’ Game Theory and OutKast’s Idlewild is finished.
By FRANKLIN SOULTS | October 03, 2006

Syd Barrett

1946-2006
Without meaning to, Barrett invented one of rock’s enduring archetypes: the visionary who burns brightly just long enough to become a bona fide star before plummeting into introversion and, in this case, a silence lasting more than 30 years.
By FRANKLIN BRUNO | July 21, 2006

Royal resurgence?

Prince returns to his ’80s roots
“Only the greats have somewhere to come down from,” wrote the late critic Ian McDonald.
By ELIOT WILDER | April 18, 2006

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