10 years later and this album cover still gives me chillsToday marks an important day in the vibrant history of hip-hop music. 10 years ago, Philadelphia hip-hop pioneers The Roots released their breakthrough album, Things Fall Apart. Bolstered by the strength of the irresistible single "You Got Me," featuring the vocals of Erykah Badu,Things Fall Apart became The Roots' most fully realized work to date, marrying the sophisticated instrumental stylings of the band with their adamant penchant for
Third Eye Blind: Still alive.Did you know that Third Eye Blind is still around? Yeah, me either, but the "Semi-Charmed Life" guys (they were crystal meth before crystal meth was cool!) are still a band and still touring, apparently at venues as large as the Marquee. Go figure. What other bands you used to listen to are not dead? Read on for a full run-down of last week's concert announcements.
Nayo Jones
My Name Is Nayo Soul
(PowerMove Records)
Grade: C
Critics have been commenting on the death of R&B for a few years now, to the point it's almost universally accepted that the genre is artistically bankrupt, with few if any quality acts still practicing the time-honored craft of marrying rhythm to blues. As we've said in print before, guys like John Legend pretty much show the boring things have gotten in the scene.The fact remains, there are two semi-successful brands of R&am
Luke HolwerdaThe Dirty Heads. See more shots in our Red Bull Soundclash slide show.I've said it before: With very few exceptions (well, really one exception, The Aggrolites) white reggae is a pox upon America. So, believe me, it's not that I wanted to go see The Dirty Heads play last night's Red Bull Soundclash at Marquee Theatre. But, since the other half of the show -- stages are set up on opposite sides of the theater, the bands play a song or so, sometimes covering each other, then the
