Word: salsa
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...stretch Lincoln Navigator, an elongated version of Lincoln's renowned Sports Utility Vehicle. The company's pride and joy, it holds 22 people and measures roughly 43 feet long. According to Michael, the Navigator is particularly popular among New York's "Latin musicians." There's enough room to salsa in a automobile with car accomodation for an Ec10 section...
...tell you about a show I saw on New Year's Eve. The band, playing at the Hynes Convention Center, was called Babaloo; it played Spanish hip-hop and salsa music. Oddly enough, the lead singer was Hispanic, but the lead guitarist was a white women, one of the drummers was black, and the bass player was this grungy blond dude wearing a beat-up Red Sox hat and chewing on a cigarette. And as the lead singer called out the choruses in Spanish, the mostly-white audience jumped, bounced, danced, waved their hands and responded as best they could...
...there was a guy named Alain Robbe-Grillet, a writer who developed what he called the unbound novel, a kind of idea where the theme, the story, is kind of series of interlocking loops and repetitions. The people who actually listen to hip-hop, dance music, techno, salsa, you name it, everything is so much more diverse than the corporations would have you think or the radio. Most people listen to a wide variety of music, whether they're black, white or Asian. It just gets to a point where sampling culture, especially in my own work, I usually...
...opening band, String Cheese Incident, kicked off the night with a Phish-like number that had most of the crowd up and clapping, though not necessarily quite on beat. String Cheese combines everything from bluegrass to salsa rhythms in their music. Originally from Colorado, the band has matured and added variation to their music over the years. While they haven't quite found their own sound yet, their mishmash of other people's genres is fairly enjoyable. Although talented, their drummer tended to undertake a little too much in some of their songs and ended up sounding convoluted and confused...
...African, Cuban and Puerto Rican culture in the rumba and bomba dance and mucic troupe stopping by our chilly city this week-end. World Music presents Grupo Afrocuba de Matanzas and Los Hermanos Cepeda at Sanders Theatre at 7:30 p.m., both just aching to add some spice and salsa to the clam chowder state we call home. Call...