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London-based Django Django ingeniously brings together disparate influences to create a cohesive, psychedelic art-pop sound.

(AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File) If it wasn’t for the worldwide web, the particulars of a festival-style rock concert I attended in 1970 would be forever lost to memory.  Before searching out the concert, I remembered only three things: it was held in San Jose, Calif., in an outdoor sports stadium; that The Ike and Tina Turner Revue headlined the show; and that the show was general admission. Though I had arrived early and had “front row” seats, I could not remember any of the other band...

Apr 12, 2021 5:06 AM We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago….she was called “Delta Lady” by the some of the many male musicians that vied for her attention. “She” was Rita Coolidge, If you only know here by her soft pop hits of the late 70’s and early 80’s, you should take a listen to her first LP “Rita Coolidge”, released in February of 1971. Coolidge was part of a loose collection of musicians & singers known as Delaney & Bonnie & F...

Posted: Mar 14, 2021 8:00 AM CT | Last Updated: March 14 Yukon musician Aiden Tentrees.(Photo submitted by Aiden Tentrees) comments This story is part of a web series called Music that Matters with CBC Yukons Airplay host Dave White. Dave sits down with Yukoners to talk about five pieces of music that inspire them.  You never know when Aiden Tentrees is going to appear musically in the Yukon — or what form that appearance will take. He might show up as one half of Soda Pony, as part...

By Keefer “The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.”—Lou Reed. While the guitar was instrumental to Lou Reed’s life in music, his eclectic taste in the art of songwriting has always stretched beyond that one singular instrument. “Rock and roll is so great, people should start dying for it,” the Velvet Underground founder once said. “You don’t understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream…The people just have to die for the music. People are...

12:26 pm UTC Feb. 17, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — Blues is inspired by place — the railroads, field...

Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 8:54 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021 Jimmy “Duck” Holmes plays his guitar in front of the Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Miss. Photo: Eric Shelton, Clarion Ledger, Illustration: Andrea Brunty, USA TODAY Network As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. JACKSON, Miss. — B...

Brass, class, steel and sorrow: Jonas Gwangwa cut close to the bone 29 Jan 2021 Trombonist Jonas Gwangwa has a superb back catalogue, despite the fact that not all of his recordings have been reissued. (Siphiwe Mhlambi) Joni Mitchell put it best in Big Yellow Taxi: “Don’t it always seem to go/ That you don’t know what you’ve lost/Till it’s gone.” So it is with the passing of Jonas Mosa Gwangwa. Only now, after a full week of sadness and tributes, does it even start feeling real tha...

In our self-deluded hubris, we reckon we’ve moved beyond the influence of fortune, a.k.a.  Lady Luck: our technologies are so powerful and our monetary policies so godlike that nothing as random as luck could ever crush our limitless expansion. Thus does hubris beg for a comeuppance: the greater the hubris, the greater the reversal of fortune, the greater the confidence in our godlike powers, the greater the collapse of our prideful faith in technology and economic policies. So we’ve enshr...

Nominated by Rick Reaction. DJ MTSPEN says: For me, this album changed how I listened to music and how I developed deeper connections with artists. All nine members stand out on the album, and its such a unique mix of sounds and display of raw creativity they show. 42. King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King [1969] Nominated by Sir Jon of Pint O’ Comics. Sir Jon says: DJ Cheshire Cat says: By 1969, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Gong, and others had hinted at the progressive rock...