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...Named Moe is a wisp of a tale about a drunken lowlife cleaning up his act and winning back his lady love with the help of five hipsters who materialize out of his radio late one boozy night. Mackintosh shows are polished like gems, but Five Guys thrives on funk and folksy amateurism, including such audience participation gimmicks as a sing-along, pulling volunteers up onstage and a mass conga line...
...rediscovering the appeal of black rock 'n' roll. Virgin Records has signed up neohippie Lenny Kravitz, whose latest record, Mama Said, has sold about 2 million copies worldwide. Sony Music produces Fishbone, seven musical renegades who have attracted a cult following with their energetic mix of rock, punk and funk. Elektra Records is pushing Eric Gales, 17, a wunderkind who leads a musically adventurous three-man band. Epic recently released a debut album by Eye & I, a genre-busting quintet propelled by the lusty vocals of female singer DK Dyson. And pop music maestro Quincy Jones has given his blessings...
...Minneapolis is infused with an educated sense of style that consorts finely with the craftsmanship and laconic wit. Price's sensibility does not so much come out of Pop as emerge, on its own terms, from the same ground, becoming both demotic and superrefined. As the Faberge of Funk, he has no rivals...
Damn. Or hot damn, depending on your tolerance for show-biz artifice and nonspontaneous combustion. Brooks is a pretty fair songwriter and a hokey holy terror of a performer. He has a solid, pleasant voice -- short on character and totally short-changed on funk -- and he's possessed of a mean weather eye for the prevailing winds of showbiz. He went to Oklahoma State University on a partial athletic scholarship ("Athletics always kept me in school") and majored in advertising and marketing. That background, competitive and commercially calculated, gave him a cool edge when he was ready to make...
...Humungous, Fungo Mungo plays a vicious, pernicious, delicious brand of funk filled with grooves designed to move your behind and sociallyconscious lyrics to tax your mind...