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The Duke & The King
By Brandon Kim on 08/18/2009
Filed under: Revolutions Per Minute
The devil has a Ferris wheel, to take you up and show you all the pretty ones dancing in the fires below. So say the Duke & The King, troubadours from the Catskill Mountains, and a group on my must hear list. The album is called "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and the men behind the name (a nod to the two conniving grifters in "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn") are Simone Felice (of The Felice Brothers) and Robert 'Chicken' Burke (George Clinton). (Simone Felice and Robert Burke. photo credit: Dave Herron) Felice wrote some of the songs after he and... MORE »
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Major Lazer
By Brandon Kim on 06/17/2009
Filed under: Revolutions Per Minute
I left the country for the millennial New Years Eve with my 2 roommates at the time, and headed for the cliff side Caribbean town of Negril, Jamaica. (We didn't believe in the Y2K end of the world scenario, only the psychos who we thought would be murdering people in the streets because they believed it). We awoke each morning to the caress of sea breeze through open windows and hiked down a mountain road to buy healthy breakfasts of little tropical bananas and fried ackee fruit, true wonder foods. We met locals and explored jungle paths with them, spelunked... MORE »
Luaka Bop
By Brandon Kim on 06/12/2009
Filed under: Revolutions Per Minute
Luaka Bop is an indie label and labor of love begun by Davd Byrne two decades and one year ago. Amped about the Brazilian records in his collection, he began to make mix tapes for his friends and eventually hired Yale Evelev from Icon to run the label with him. The two went forth and signed obscure artists from places like Brazil and Cuba, pressing pop no one had ever heard before. Byrne comments on Luaka Bop's website, "I became the mogul of the label you can't pronounce. I was pictured in a cartoon at the time in a pith... MORE »
Multiple threats: Leah Hayes
By Brandon Kim on 05/18/2009
Filed under: Revolutions Per Minute
I discovered the many talents of Leah Hayes one after the other, by accident or happenstance, or because I live in Brooklyn. Maybe it was witchery. But last Fall/late summer it began and hasn't stopped. First, and I don't recall how, I came across her band Scary Mansion. Contrary to my initial impression of the name, which immediately conjured the best time of my life at Disney's Haunted Mansion, the band's sound is a matured haunting. Beautiful but grave, Leah Hayes delivers stark vocals on the verge of breaking over organs, guitars, drums, in the room with the locked door... MORE »
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