JonPareles
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Can Broadway handle Afrobeat? "Fela!" says yes.
4:44 PM Nov 25th
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Norah Jones breaks up, plugs in, approaches rocking out. The review: And the podcast:
8:07 PM Nov 19th
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Flu. Probably H1N1. Better (always) with a backbeat. Little Willie John :
12:38 PM Nov 18th
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Soul men in suits--Syl Johnson quotes Wu-Tang!--and a fly girl at Numero's Eccentric Soul Revue.
8:30 AM Nov 17th
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Bob Dylan's Christmas album is a headscratcher, and Barry Manilow gets nutty too.
2:46 PM Nov 15th
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Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward--Monsters of Folk, philosophizing in a gilded room.
9:43 PM Nov 9th
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Calle 13 rules the Latin Grammys--and Juan Gabriel does what may be the world's longest awards-show performance.
2:32 PM Nov 7th
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Quiet--mostly--heartbreak from Noah and the Whale.
3:31 PM Nov 4th
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Rock Hall Day 2: U2, Metallica, Jeff Beck, Aretha...not to mention Jagger, Black Eyed Peas and Buddy Guy...
2:12 PM Oct 31st
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Rock's a big, happy family at the Hall of Fame concerts. Day 1: Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, CSN:
5:31 AM Oct 31st
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Florence and the Machine would've ruled CMJ--an English band with craft and passion.
10:42 PM Oct 30th
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No unanimously overwhelming buzz band at CMJ Music Marathon 2009--but a bunch of good ones anyway. Notebook:
8:54 PM Oct 25th
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- Thus endeth CMJ 2009--except for the Critic's Notebook.
11:41 PM Oct 24th
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Sharon Van Etten, honest & germane at CMJ: "This is a song about moving back into my parents' house in my 20s and trying to be OK with it."
9:03 PM Oct 24th
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CMJ: Janka Nabay in a straw skirt, singing his bubu music from Sierra Leone: great skeletal beat and a voice with grain like Auto-Tune.
8:12 PM Oct 24th
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My CMJ has lacked coordinated wardrobes. Little Girls, males from Toronto, get credit for all black shirts--and for jittery tremolo buzz.
8:14 PM Oct 23rd
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Alec Ounsworth of blog-loved Clap Your Hands Say Yeah playing solo at afternoon CMJ party. 3 notebooks out within arm's length of mine.
3:34 PM Oct 22nd
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Heard on Ludlow St. mid-CMJ:"The problem with artists is they act like artists." No--that's not the problem. That's the gig.
11:01 PM Oct 21st
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Broadcast's set torpedoed pop, multiplied noise, blew minds. Is the rest of CMJ downhill from here? Full review when eyes stop strobing.
10:48 PM Oct 20th
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Atlas Sound at CMJ: B. Cox from Deerhunter in plaid shirt w/ acoustic guitar & harmonica rack--a roots-rocker? Till psychedelia erupted.
8:06 PM Oct 20th
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