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...most fertile areas for East-West cross-pollinations is music. At S.O.B.'s in New York City, Rekha Malhotra, a.k.a. DJ Rekha, plays bhangra, a cool fusion of electronic dance and hip-hop beats with traditional Indian folk sounds. So popular is Rekha, 33, that her parties have become tourist attractions. "I can go anywhere in the country," she says, "and someone will go, 'Oh, I've been to Basement Bhangra.'" At Sonotheque in Chicago, Brian Keigher, 31, spins a popular fusion style known as "Asian underground"--fast, irresistibly danceable music studded with sitars and thumping tablas. Wade your...
William F. Buckley has always seemed wrongheaded to me, but I've had to admire his articulateness. His answer to the first of your "10 Questions" [April 12], however, included the phrase "humble folk like you and I," instead of "like you and me." One hopes this grammatical bobble was not an unintended error. Or is this Buckley's folksy way of uniting with the masses against ivory-tower academics? Does this mark a late-in-life turn to grammatical populism by Buckley? I am accustomed to conservative solipsism but not conservative solecism. Humble folk like I expect more from...
Come celebrate the release of singer-songwriter the second album by Liz Carlisle ’06. Liz has played at venues like the Kendall Café and Club Passim, and she will be playing some of her new pop-ready folk tunes live. Hors d’oeuvres will be served. Free and open to the public. 5:30 p.m. Quincy Junior Common Room...
From the first fast-picking banjo song to the last swinging ballad, Leftover Salmon uses this disc to showcase their diversity and song-writing capability. Any listener can appreciate the spectrum of sound with songs like the sure folk rock hit, “Woody Guthrie,” and the Southern fried “Keep On Walkin.” The album delightfully maintains an impressive sense of cohesion and style. Instead of leading you astray, each track offers a different road to walk down and a different mood to discover...
...Barlow’s musical span of attention has never been very long. That’s part of why he bounced around in so many bands in the 90s: Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, Sentridoh, the Folk Implosion, most recently, a solo record. The man has proved impossible to pin down for any extended period of time. But now he has reconvened with bassist and songwriter Jason Lowenstein to tour as Sebadoh, the masthead of his most prolific and beloved act. Lowenstein and Barlow were brought together for the 10th anniversary celebration of British label Domino Records, whose first release...