Articles tagged "africa to appalachia"

Slipped Discs 2008 Feature

Part 2: Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jan.09] :. From Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our second batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.

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Column: Torch & Twang

Happy-Go-Plucking

by Juli Thanki

[12.Jan.09] :. Steve Martin, Sufjan Stevens, and Kermit the Frog all know it and you should, too: the banjo is hands-down the coolest instrument out there.

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Music Review

Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko: Africa to Appalachia

by Deanne Sole

[2.Oct.08] :. The kora, with its lacelike and intricate patterns of notes, is the more attention-catching instrument, and you could easily forget that this album is a partnership and start to think of it as a Mansa Sissoko project.

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