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Radiohead - The King of Limbs (2011)
By Tom Johnson Just a week ago, we were expecting nothing more than the usual—just distant wondering of when there might be a new Radiohead. It had to be coming soon, right? It's been more than three years since they surprised us with In Rainbows and then only cryptic messages about embracing new formats. Were we ...
Gutbucket - Flock (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron According to Wikipedia, a gutbucket is “a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator." There was even a “gutbucket blues" style of music that was played by those jug bands of long ago. And so since we're here to talk about a band called ...
Dr. John, with the Meters - Desitively Bonnaroo (1974)
By Nick DeRiso Dr. John further defines an ass-shaking new synthesis on Desitively Bonnaroo. Even today, there's really no roadmap for the crazy-eyed co-mingling of R&B, jazz, island beats, blues, boogie funk and hoodoo whackadoo splashed across this LP, recorded alongside fellow New Orleans legends Allen Toussaint and the Meters more than 35 years ago. At ...
Forgotten Series: Nat 'King" Cole - Welcome to the Club (1959)
By Nick DeRiso The King has been dead for nearly a half century. Not that you'd know it with all the reissues, television specials and creepy rip offs from Nat Cole's daughter over the last pair of decades. He's funny that way. Cole has had more output over that period than many living jazzers, and he's ...
Something Else! Reviews on the 2011 Blues Hall of Fame Honorees
By Something Else! Reviews Robert Cray tops this year's class of inductees into the Blues Hall of Fame. He's joined by acoustic bluesman John Hammond; soul-blues belter Denise LaSalle, 1950s singing star Big Maybelle, and singer/songwriters Alberta Hunter and J.B. Lenoir. Also to be recognized: Vivian Carter and Jimmy Bracken (the “Vee" and “Jay" in Vee-Jay ...
The Friday Morning Listen
Wait, you're thinking...that's not Justin Bieber...it's Esperanza Spalding! Yeah, I just couldn't resist a little GrammySmugness2011 ...except that I'm really listening to Pizzicato Five! I've been thinking about this year's Grammy awards. Specifically, the “shock" of jazz bassist/singer Esperanza Spalding receiving the award for Best New Artist. I was certainly shocked, especially when thinking back to ...
Todd Rundgren Sets Tour Dates, Will Perform Two Complete Albums
By Something Else Reviews Todd Rundgren has announced five spring concerts, on which he will perform a pair of albums in their entirety, Todd and Healing. The first-ever live stagings of these two releases, held in September of last year, found Rundgren on stage with Greg Hawkes of the Cars, Kasim Sulton of Utopia, Prairie Prince ...
Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society - G.R.A.S.S. on Fire (2011)
By Mark Saleski While many “serious" jazz fans will turn up their precious noses at the jazzification of pop tunes, we here at SomethingElse! steadfastly believe that life is too short to be keeping that bow tie so tight. Sure, we love us some Miles and 'Trane, but that doesn't mean we're against letting our hair ...
Rova Saxophone Quartet - Planetary (2011)
By S. Victor Aaron Imagine a conversation with three other people where topic...a theme if you will...is selected and all four of you are to converse on that topic at certain points in time. And then at other times, a random topic is chosen, but everyone has to be conversing on topic together. And the topics ...
Plans Set for Gil Evans' 100th Birthday Celebration - And You Can Join In
By Something Else Reviews Composer/producer Ryan Truesdell on Wednesday launched the Gil Evans Centennial Project at GilEvansProject.com. There's news: Truesdell, the first person outside of the Evans family to have full access to his musical archives, has uncovered a series of rare compositions, from before and after Evans' celebrated collaborations with Miles Davis. “Gil was an ...
