Articles by Kevin Jones

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  Janelle Monáe

  Metropolis: The Chase Suite

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2008

  Almost a year after trickling out her jarringly ambitious concept EP to only the most ardent internet foragers, Atlanta-based genre smashin...

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  Raphael Saadiq

  The Way I See It

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2008

  To be honest, this whole current pop gravy train of ’60s soul pastiches has just about worn out its welcome. In the case of indelible soul...

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  Zo! & Tigallo

  Love The '80s

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2008

  With so many current artists finding success in revisiting the ’80s via modern day new wave reinventions, Little Brother’s resident crooner...

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  Inside The Circle

  Marcy Garriott

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

  As dance documentaries go, director Marcy Garriott’s award-winning b-boy flick Inside The Circle hits all the right notes, stepping beyond...

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  Large Professor

  Main Source

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

  It’s been a long six years since Large Professor put words to beats on a full-length album, and while the man has definitely maintained his...

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  N.Y. Oil

  Hood Treason

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

  For all of the love heaped on politically minded hip-hop artists like Public Enemy and KRS-One, very few MCs over the years have chosen to...

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  Manifesto: The Main Event

  Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto ON September 21

  PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2008

  If the intent of this year’s Manifesto was to showcase the best and tightest of Toronto’s urban music scene, then the festival’s closing ja...

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  Brooklyn Academy

  Bored Of Eductaion

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  With their individual reps long earned in the less glamorous corners of the underground, Brooklyn Academy members Pumpkinhead, Block McClou...