Grumpy old rockers still have their teeth
Album reviews - a magnificent return from the Manic Street Preachers plus new albums from Cymande, Martin Kemp and 60s legend ...
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Infectious British Funk, Soul, & R&B Band, Cymande, Return After 51 Years With ‘Renascence’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The cliché says what’s old is new again. It’s not often that we see a gap of 51 years between albums, but the legendary ...
‘Wicked,’ ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Les Miserables’ on tap for new Broadway on Hennepin season
A new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and classics like “Wicked,” “The Phantom of the Opera” ...
The Super-Sampled Band Cymande Made Funk With a Message. It’s Back.
The British group with Caribbean roots stopped performing in 1974. Its slow-rolling comeback is realized on Friday with a new ...
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THE WIZ National Tour to Make Bass Hall Debut in July
Tickets for THE WIZ Bass Performance Hall,will go on sale Friday, February 7 at 10am. The Wiz is a stirring tale of Dorothy’s ...
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Tuesday’s Gone: David Bowie Drops Oddball Version Of “Fame” On ‘Soul Strain’ Live 1975
Sandwiched between David Bowie’s infamous glam-rock years and his more avant-garde Berlin trilogy of albums later in the 70s, ...
ORG Music and Westbound Records' first archival release — Eramus Hall's 'Lost and Found'
In the spirit of archival music comes long lost recordings by the Detroit Soul and Funk ensemble, Eramus Hall, via the ...
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Neal Francis Shares Groove-Heavy Single 'Need You Again'
Acclaimed singer-songwriter-pianist Neal Francis shares the second song from his eagerly anticipated third studio ...
Bay Area music legend Sly Stone vanished for decades. A new film explains why.
"Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)" unpacks the complicated legacy of Sly Stone. It premiered at Sundance, and hits ...
Black Savage: the leaders of Kenya’s funk rebellion
Exploring the story of Black Savage, a group formed in Kenya during the mid-1970s which combined elements of funk, soul, and ...
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50 years after they disbanded, British funk outfit Cymande is back with a new album
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Patrick Patterson and Steve Scipio of the British funk band Cymande about their new album and about reconstituting the band after decades.