Articles by David Dacks

Lee Fields & The Expressions

"Love Comes And Goes"

PUBLISHED Dec 24, 2009

The Click Hear crew will be taking a break for the next two weeks, but you shouldn't let that stop you from swinging by this spot to (re)di...

Georgia Anne Muldrow, Nino Moschella and Oumou Sangare Lead Exclaim!'s Best Groove Albums of 2009

PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2009

Exclaim!'s Groove section covers not so much a style of music as a perspective. It's a section that starts with African-American culture, e...

Can

"Silent Night"

PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2009

Have we reached the tipping point of holiday music yet? That point at which grudging tolerance and good will to all genres is replaced by s...

Queen Omega

"Footsteps"

PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2009

TRACK OF THE DAY: Though dancehall clashes continue to dominate the international press coverage of Jamaica's music, roots reggae is still...

The CB's

"Misdemeanor"

PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2009

TRACK OF THE DAY: Information about the CBs is hard to come by, but I'll pull a few lines from what's floating around every post about this...

J.D. McDonald

"Boogaloo Santa Claus"

PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2009

TRACK OF THE DAY: It's December and the (winter) gloves are off for another flurry of holiday songs. For me, In The Christmas Groove is one...

Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada

"Cara De Yo No Fui" (Ancient Astronauts remix)

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2009

2009 has been a good year for each of the principals of Afro/Latin/psychedelic ensemble Ocote Soul Sounds. Adrian Quesada's main group, Bro...

Group Doueh

PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2009

Exclaim! went all the way to Western Sahara (via email ― our travel budget's kind of tight) to pose some questions to Baamar Salmou,...