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DELICATE SITUATION: Following a van accident that killed two members of the young band For Squirrels, Sony’s 550 Music label has the unenviable task of trying to tastefully promote the group’s just-released debut album, “Example.”
Oct. 8, 1995
Entertainment & Arts
Sigur Ros is a band that understands presence. Volume, silences, texture.
April 9, 2003
Dueting with Linda Ronstadt (and winning a Grammy for it last year with the delicate “Don’t Know Much”) has made Aaron Neville something of the star of the Neville Brothers band, which had always been an equal partnership of him and Art, Cyril and Charles.
Jan. 7, 1991
The Gipsy Kings’ surprise U.S. success last year held a delicate balance between novelty and legitimate inter-cultural phenomenon: real French/Spanish Gypsies doing a modernized version of real Gypsy music in Andalusian Spanish.
Jan. 21, 1990
In the early ‘70s, Village Voice critic Robert Christgau, writing about the quintessential hippie folk group the Incredible String Band, said he couldn’t decide whether “these acoustic Scots were magic or (bull) and concluded that they were both.”
Dec. 23, 1987
Los Angeles band Congo Norvell makes music that, like its name, is full of mystery and clashing images of the primal and the sophisticated.
Dec. 24, 1993
STEVE KUHN “Remembering Tomorrow” ECM * * * 1/2 This lush, introspective recording from pianist Kuhn’s trio (with bassist David Finck and drummer Joey Baron) reinforces the reputation ECM producer Manfred Eicher has for developing atmospheric music.
July 7, 1996
*** 1/2 THE NEGRO PROBLEM “Welcome Black” Smile Records/ Image Entertainment TNP leader Stew gets back to the band thing after two acclaimed solo albums, and the L.A. group reconvenes to effortlessly deliver the clever wordplay, insistent melodies and oddly authentic emotion expected of it.
Sept. 1, 2002
Always full of surprises, long-lived Sonic Youth performs relentlessly true to form at the Henry Fonda Theatre.
July 21, 2004
Bacharach to basics
April 21, 2009