Articles by David Dacks

Various

Cote D'Ivoire: West African Crossroads

PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010

Could there be any other name for a compilation of Ivoirien sounds? At the crossroads of commerce in West Africa for centuries, in modern t...

Brain Damage

Burning Before Sunset

PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2010

For more than a decade, French dub crew Brain Damage have persisted in pushing forward with their sui generis dub while evolving a very exp...

Actress

Splazsh

PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2010

The highly anticipated second release from Actress gains points for range, but loses them for underdeveloped execution. Darren Cunningham b...

Gonjasufi Is No Slave to the Machine

PUBLISHED May 28, 2010

Gonjasufi's A Sufi and a Killer feels a sun-stroked cruise down a lonely desert highway with an ever more intense psychedelic soundtrack...

Janelle Monae Buys Into Independence

PUBLISHED May 22, 2010

Though it's fun to debate the relative merits of genre classification in pop music, it takes an artist like Janelle Monae to really intensi...

Janelle Mon&#225;e Talks <i>The ArchAndroid</i>, Its Multimedia Project and That Crown

PUBLISHED May 21, 2010

Eclectic soul visionary Janelle Mon&#225;e is pulling out all the stops to promote her debut album, The ArchAndroid, released this past Tue...

Listen to Bettye LaVette's <i>Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook</i> Now on Exclaim.ca

PUBLISHED May 18, 2010

If you're not already hip to the deep rhythm and blues of Bettye LaVette, the surprising blend of classic rock and earthy soul on her up...

TriBeCaStan

5 Star Cave

PUBLISHED May 13, 2010

5 Star Cave is a further safari into the music of the imaginary Manhattan locale. Tribecastan's second album sounds more like a band than t...