Articles by Kevin Jones

Lal Face Deportation

PUBLISHED May 15, 2008

As the music industry carries on convulsing and bloodletting at its presently dissipating margin lines while gallons of ink is spilled pron...

Saul Williams / Zaki Ibrahim

The Mod Club, Toronto ON April 14

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2008

Experimentalism has always been a key component to the success of Saul Williams’s musical output, and he may have reached his creative zeni...

Beady Belle

Belvedere

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2008

It can be an exciting experience watching artists you truly enjoy and respect develop through the years, especially when that artist bubble...

Vinicius Cantuaria

Cymbals

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2008

Multi-instrumentalist/singer/composer Vinicius Cantuaria has long crafted a stellar reputation, both in his native Brazil and on the intern...

Estelle

Shine

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2008

The endless months of "next best thing” web buzz — no doubt culminating in a lead-off single featuring guaranteed success bringer Kanye Wes...

Various

Umalali: The Garifuna Women's Project

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2008

For the past five years, Belizean artist/producer Ivan Duran has been on a mission cataloguing the largely uncelebrated musical traditions...

Akrobatic

Absolute Value

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2008

With five years between discs, a sophomore set from Boston MC Akrobatik has definitely been a long-time coming, and the energy he brings to...

Black Spade

To Serve With Love

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2008

While the words "St. Louis hip-hop” no doubt conjure up images of Nelly, Chingy and words spelled with too many Rs for most, producer/MC Bl...