Articles by Kevin Jones

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  QR5

  Pharmakon

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  There’s a quaint peacefulness that runs throughout Pharmakon, the latest, folk-infused album by Toronto four-piece QR5. It’s the feeling co...

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  Coppershot

  Issues

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  After teaming up for two cuts on Chi-town producer Copperpot’s Chapter Seven disc a couple years back, he and fellow Windy City MC Longshot...

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  Cassandra Wilson

  Thunderbird

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  After years of playing it straight with her roots-y approach to standard jazz, blues and folk sounds, singer Cassandra Wilson has recently...

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  Van Hunt

  On the Jungle Floor

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Though there’s very little to be had in terms of fresh and new today in R&B and soul — two genres that have a difficult time with progressi...

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  One Session

  Bobby B Presents the Hidden Treasure Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Kottonmouth Kings DJ Bobby B teams up with Suburban Noize label-mates One Session here in a determined attempt to show that positive hip-ho...

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  Various

  Legendary Gatherings

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Montreal-based underground collective and label Island City Monsters come together to showcase pretty much what we’ve all come to expect fr...

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  Prefuse 73

  Security Screenings

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  Less than a year after recording an album dominated by other voices, sketch-hop producer Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) swings the...

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  Roots Manuva

  Alternately Deep

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

  When Roots Manuva emerged from the studio having cut nearly two albums worth of material during last year’s Awfully Deep sessions, the deci...