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One Track Mind: Kellylee Evans, "I Loves You Porgy" (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Taking on Nina Simone, a singer of dusky persuasiveness, might be foolhardy enough. Remaking this song, a Top 20 pop hit off Simone's celebrated 1958 debut Little Girl Blue seemed like the worst idea of all. But Canadian singer Kellylee Evans finds a new light, even if it's only a small sliver, within ...
Debora Petrina - In Doma (2010)
By Mark Saleski After years of writing reviews, I have now stumbled into what must be the most embarrassing way to discover music: via a tumblr photo blog. I can't even remember what I'd been writing at the time, but I had googled the word “geek" and ended up on a site full of pictures of ...
2010'S Top Unsigned Acts - Well, OK, Some of Them, Anyway
By Nick DeRiso Let's get this admission out of the way: Picking the best of 2010's unsigned treasures is like trying to determine your favorite grain of sand. There are far too many, really, to make any reasonable guess—and the whole time you're walking around with a bucket in an attempt to actually decide, you keep ...
Best of the Best: The Officiala" SomethingElse! Top 10 for 2010
By Something Else Reviews Over the last few weeks, this merry band of music lovers has offered its varied take on the Year That Was. Now, we winnow it all down. First to go were the personal obsessions (Mark: Mary Halvorson; Pico: Greg Ward's Fitted Shards), and other worthy entries that somehow didn't gather critical mass ...
Miles Davis with Gil Evans - Miles Ahead (1957)
By Nick DeRiso Miles Ahead was initially billed by Columbia Records, in the flatly obvious tone of the day, as “Miles Davis plus 19, with Gil Evans." Right. Still, it was that last guy, the 20th man, who was the important one. After a burst of creativity in the late 1940s—the clearest result being the very ...
One Track Mind: Gino Vannelli "People Gotta Move" (1974)
By Pico “If that guy hits you, I'm not stopping to help you!" “Come on, people, MOVE!!!" “Get your @#$% out of my way!" My wife, God love her, gets a little impatient with her fellow motorists and often has these one-sided conversations with them from behind the wheel. We sometimes joke that she needs some ...
Forgotten Series: Melvin Taylor - Dirty Pool (1997)
By Pico Electric blues guitarist Melvin Taylor had been sporadically recording solo albums for 20 years when Dirty Pool arrived—and was somehow just beginning to find fame. Already a hit in Europe, it had taken a steady run of performing in Chicago's famed blues clubs to slowly earn Taylor a well-deserved reputation as an equal talent ...
The Best of 2010, Part 5: Whack Jazz
Each of the year's four Satoko Fujii records made our Best Of 2010 List. By Pico With the more accessible types of jazz out of the way in Part 3 and Part 4, this Best of 2010 series concludes with the least accessible stuff, the experimental and avant-garde stuff that I affectionately call whack jazz. With ...
Holiday Cheer(S)!: Here's Somethingelse for Christmas
By Something Else Reviews After a long winter's nap, let's rock a while to some of our Yuletide favorites—from the jazzy (Ramsey Lewis and Joe Pass) to the downhome (Koko Taylor and Kermit Ruffins), from the offbeat (the Temptations tearing up “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer") to the undiscovered ...
Ten for 2010: Year's Best Included Field Music, Ted Leo, Band of Horses and Mike Patton
By Tom Johnson Every year I start out thinking that I have a feeling what album is going to ride high on my year end list, and more often than not I'm surprised by so many other things that the album in question may not even register. This year's victim is Corinne Bailey Rae's The Sea, ...
