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Over the course of one weekend in June, the Brooklyn International Music Festival is just one of the many initiatives created by the husband-and-wife team of Geoff and Lynette Wiley, who founded Jalopy in 2006 as a home for traditional music. Their focus had been on American folk music, but they have found common ground with roots music from around the world.
The innovative Accra musician and DJ was an “inimitable producer, disc jockey, and mobile party-starter,” his label Awesome Tapes From Africa said
A free show at Millennium Stage, Anjimile at DC9, local musician Mergia at Union Stage, Christmas with the Tudors, and Lydia Loveless.
The cassette tape is the audio equivalent of the AK-47: cheap and easy to mass manufacture; highly usable with the minimum of skills and experience; and a symbol and tool of revolutions. Marc Masters doesn’t use that metaphor in his excellent and truly exciting book on cassette tapes, but he doesn’t have to. He outlines the story of how the cassette came to be the dominant recording medium on a global scale during the 1980s and into the mid-1990s, and by doing so shows how essential cassettes were to so many musical movements that they would have been impossible without the tapes tha...
Peter One's new album, 'Come Back to Me'—his first in 30 years— is a journey from start to finish, a journey home.