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Shortly after 9/11, this crew of concerned New Yorkers wandered from their respective sounds (punk, jazz, pop) and found a common purpose in American Roots music. The sextet's debut is a delightful, heartening blend of blues, gospel, bluegrass and country that rereads early Americana as a beautiful and inclusive, if faraway, place.
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Twenty years after their classic How Will the Wolf Survive? East Los Angeles' finest are still mixing it up. Their brilliant 11th album is a characteristically bluesy, pensive affair that's energized by a staggering array of guests that ranges from soul crooner Bobby Womack and avant-rockers Cafe Tacuba to Elvis Costello and Mavis Staples.
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Heralded Harlem poet/rapper Carl Hancock Rux finally drops the follow-up to his 1998 debut, Rux Revue, and it was worth the wait. Like a great one-man show, Rux channels the multi-hued flavors of the diaspora, filtering his fiercely proud and thoughtful verses through African juju, avant-jazz and hip-hop.
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As a founder of the 1960s Tropicalia movement, a longstanding political critic and ...