Check the right column to see the three albums I’ve designated as this month’s great sounds:
- The Roots — Rising Down
- Santogold
- Manu Chao — La Radiolina
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Tuesday Top 10: Hip-hop hurray!
I’ve decided to bring back the Tuesday Top 10 — a not-necessarily definitive list reflective of my interests, tastes and biases. To start, I’ll offer my favorite hip-hop artists, with the caveat that I am by no means a rap afficionado or expert. These are not the greatest rappers or most influential artists — though some would fall on that list. They are just the ones I dig.
- Public Enemy
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
- The Beastie Boys
- Run DMC
- The Roots
- Third Bass
- A Tribe Called Quest
- Cypress Hill
- De La Soul
- Arrested Development
Runners up: , Missy Elliot, PM Dawn, Heavy D, Dr. Dre, The Fugees, Ice-T, Outkast, Wu-Tang, KRS-One, Neneh Cherry
Anyone else have any favorites I missed?
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Rock, rock, rock, rock,rock ‘n’ roll radio
Annie’s brother Steven called tonight when Annie was out, so we chatted for a while about the family and what not. Then he told me about a new radio station he came across, one that played the good “classic rock” and mixed in old new wave and punk and a healthy dose of new alternative sounds.
The station sounded a bit like the old WNEW — that commitment to rock music of all stripes. I listened for a while on line tonight and it sounds pretty good. I don’t know if rock radio is making a comeback, but it is worth giving a shot — especially because I’d given up on commercial radio and listen almost exclusively to WXPN and WHYY (NPR).
Here’s the link to the new station: 101.9 RXP — The NY Rock Experience.
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R.I.P., Jeff Healy
I just came across this news about Jeff Healy, the great guitar player from Canada. He finally succumbed to cancer at age 41.
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Sending out an SOS
This show looks like a winner — if I can get my hands on some tickets. The Police, Aug. 4, at the PNC Bank Arts Center, with Elvis Costello opening.
Yes. You read that correctly.
Accordign to The Record of Bergen County, tickets will be $40.25 for lawn seats and $90.25 and $225.25 for reserve seats and go on sale Feb. 25.
I saw The Police twice — once during the summer of 1981 when the band took a break from recording Ghost in the Machine to do a one-off show at Liberty Race Track in Philadelphia. The show — with the Go-Gos, The Specials, Oingo Boingo and the Coasters opening — was amazing.
The second show was the final one of their Synchronicity tour at Shea Stadium, with R.E.M. and Joan Jett opening (we got their late and missed R.E.M., but I have been lucky enough to catch the band on several other occasions). It was, I believe, my brother’s first concert and also was a great show.
R.E.M., by the way, also will be touring (June 14 in Long Island, June 17 in Philadelphia and June 18 in New York — click on the link to hear the new single, which is guitar-driven in a way the band has not been for a while), so if I can come up with the cash, I’ll be hitting some concerts this summer (already have Springsteen tickets).
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Hank Kalet 