Friday, November 18 2011
James Brown: The Singles Volume 11: 1979-1981
If you're looking for the Godfather singing disco, country, and a jawdropping 11-minute ode to cakes, this is the comp for you.
Friday, September 9 2011
Counterbalance: Year One
In this special one-year anniversary edition of Counterbalance, Eric Klinger and Jason Mendelsohn discuss their first year combing through the pop music canon (as determined by Acclaimed Music's calculations of every best-of list available), share a few favorites, and justify a couple items on their expense account.
Tuesday, August 23 2011
Last Stop But One: The Final Musical Act of Rhythm and Blues Singer Little Willie John
Little Willie John was one of the first and greatest R&B singers of all time. So why have so few people ever heard of him?
Friday, July 1 2011
Counterbalance No. 40: James Brown’s ‘Live at the Apollo’
Counterbalance tackles the Hardest Working Man in Show Business as James Brown's Live at the Apollo clocks in at number 40 on the list of the most acclaimed albums of all time. As it turns out he’s freakishly strong and slightly slippery. It’s Star Time!
Friday, March 18 2011
Various Artists: Those Shocking, Shaking Days
This compilation is a vibrant celebration of rebellious sound displaying the glut of funky, resonant music coming out of Indonesia during the fertile and tense '70s.
Friday, January 15 2010
King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records by Jon Hartley Fox
The story of dozens of artists great and small, and the record label that helped define both R&B and country music in the '40s, '50s and '60s.
Monday, April 13 2009
Various Artists: Protected Massive Samples
Massive Attack is opened up, and its insides are revealed to be made of muzak and precious stones.
Wednesday, April 1 2009
Old Skewl B.S. aka Morality Police Bite
Artists continually suffer for refusing to bow to the morality police. Yet, like this Kentuckian, we are all Unbridled Spirits, refusing to conceit to itty bitty morality pity. It’s a shame that one has to chant louder, write faster, read quicker, exercise harder, know more and listen with more compassion, isn’t it? Naw, that’s just old skewl.
Thursday, March 19 2009
Hot Buttered Soul: Politics and Pop Culture Are Really One
When change is upon us and we need media most, more and more traditional media outlets will simply pick up and disseminate what fewer and fewer folks have placed on the corporate-filtered news wire. Luckily, my new White House friend is as funky as you wanna be.
Thursday, October 30 2008
James Brown: Double Dynamite
James Brown: Double Dynamite isn't in the extras, it's in the music. It's in the man.
