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Unlike many popular R&B artists today, the members of Tony Toni Tone (group leader Raphael Saadiq, his brother D'Wayne Wiggins and their cousin Timothy Christian Riley) are dedicated musicians who actually play real instruments, instead of relying on played-out samples and drum machine-generated rhythm loops. Saadiq sings and plays the bass, the guitar and keyboards, Wiggins adds guitar work and vocals. Riley mainly plays drums and keyboards and is featured on the clarinet. Backing them up are live musicians playing instruments ranging from horns to flutes to pianos and organs. One song on the new album...
...album. Their last album, Sons of Soul, which posted platinum sales and recieved critical acclaim, was released back in 1993. The band members had been devoting much of their time to producing and writing for other artists, including A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, Total and Tevin Campbell. Raphael Saadiq says that fans' expectations helped motivate the group to go back into the studio, and fans will not be disappointed with the band's latest effort...
...votes in North Carolina in 1988. Late last week in the Washington Post, Gore explained that an "emotional numbness" after his sister's death "prevented me from integrating into all aspects of my life the implications of what that tragedy truly meant." This defense, best presented to Sally Jessy Raphael, introduces an interesting principle of nonaccountability that, say, Richard Nixon might have found useful in the midst of Watergate...
...Loeb X's latest production, "The Vampires." A dark comedy dripping with bad one-liners, pretentious art and enough family bickering to make anyone feel glad to be at college, "The Vampires" builds itself up slowly but surely into an outrageous farce too bizarre even for "Sally Jessy Raphael...
...Jonathan S. Jacobson's $6 million-plus compensation package demeans well-intentioned donations of much less, say $1 million. How can a simple money manager believe his purse to be more valuable than an ethic of reasonable compensation? That could finance tuition for 50 students. Jacobson's salary, 300! --Raphael Justewicz Student, Graduate School of Design