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Tony Toni Tone's latest album, House of Music, will once again generate numerous comparisons between the style and sound of the Bay Area band and the R&B legends of the 1970s, such as Kool and the Gang and the Commodores. The retro stamp is not necessarily a label that the band should seek to avoid. In fact, Tony Toni Tone has become one of the most unique and outstanding contemporary groups because they have reinterpreted key elements of the classic soul tradition...
KENNEDY Oddball, retro MTV veejay made appearances with Dole; won't get to emcee Inaugural show...
...concerts instead. But now they--and audiences--are rediscovering an art form with unique pleasures and possibilities. Many albums, of course, still do little more than preserve live stand-up performances. Ellen DeGeneres, for example, has just released her first album, Taste This, a sampler of surprisingly retro stand-up routines (imagine, a comedian who still jokes about airplane food!). A funnier addition to the genre comes from Robert Schimmel (Robert Schimmel Comes Clean), whose X-rated ruminations on bodily functions and anal sex are redeemed by a relaxed, witty style reminiscent of early Carlin...
...expect a new, larger-scale House of the Future. Instead, Celebration was "imagineered" to appeal to many Americans' nostalgic desire for a retro ideal: a small-town life in which neighbors have cook-outs, streets are safe and the neighborhood schools act as the center of an active and friendly community...
...know how much it has to do with football," Hu told The Boston Globe. "They had us wear sweat pants and shirts that made us look retro, and then got us in these complicated poses. But it was cool...