Jazz Articles about The Caravan

The Caravan: The Caravan

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 30, 2013

The Caravan, the self-titled second album from a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based hybrid hip hop trio, has attracted attention for the track “What Up Steve?." It's a new kind of political protest record for Canada, a reaction to the new kind of conservative politics practiced by the Stephen Harper administration. But “What Up Steve?," whatever its effectiveness, only partially represents the musical breadth of the record. The album merges the easy-going collective sensibility of the Maritime Canadian kitchen party ...