Articles tagged "james brown"

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Various Artists: Protected Massive Samples

by Timothy Gabriele

[13.Apr.09] :. Massive Attack is opened up, and its insides are revealed to be made of muzak and precious stones.

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Old Skewl B.S. aka Morality Police Bite

by Diepiriye Kuku

[1.Apr.09] :. 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.

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Hot Buttered Soul: Politics and Pop Culture Are Really One

by Diepiriye Kuku

[19.Mar.09] :. 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.

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Music DVD Review

James Brown: Double Dynamite

by Christel Loar

[30.Oct.08] :. James Brown: Double Dynamite isn't in the extras, it's in the music. It's in the man.

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I Got the Feelin’: James Brown in the ‘60s

by Zeth Lundy

[5.Sep.08] :. At the time of Dr. King's murder, with America's racial and existential crises at a peak, Brown's music was itself a crisis, always on call.

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News

James Brown auction sales prices lower than expected

by Otis R. Taylor Jr. [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Jul.08] :. The auction of James Brown’s personal possessions by Christie’s in New York on Thursday produced some jaw-dropping surprises. But the $857,688 brought in from the more than 300 items...

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Suit aims to get at soul of James Brown photo rights

by Ameet Sachdev [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[28.May.08] :. A long-running feud between the late “Godfather of Soul” James Brown and a photo archive owned by Bill Gates, the father of Microsoft, has fallen into the laps of Illinois lawmakers. The...

 

Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Feb.08] :. The question of cause and effect is crucial, not only to Banished, but also to the black and white communities who live today with the legacy of banishing.

 

James Brown: The Singles, Volume 3: 1964-1965

by Zeth Lundy

[30.Aug.07] :. Hip-O Select's limited edition series rolls on by documenting an overwhelming awkward period in Brown's otherwise superhuman ascension into R&B's uncharted places.

 

In Memoriam: James Brown

by Matt Rogers

[23.Mar.07] :. It’s a mistake to compare James Brown (or anyone else, for that matter) as a showman at 70 to what he was like at 40, 30, and 25. But, until the last, Soul Brother #1 still brought the funk.

 

Soul Power

by William Glasspiegel

[3.Jan.07] :. Though James Brown's body was lying in state at the Apollo Theater, on the streets of Harlem, his spirit seemed to be everywhere.

 

The Last Soul Brother: James Brown (1933-2006)

by Mark Anthony Neal

[2.Jan.07] :. The humanity of the man -- with its funky and messy flaws and frailties -- could never sustain the myth, so much so that the image of the man who gave Black Power its soundtrack became a harsh reminder of its fractured legacy.

 

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

by Bill Gibron

[11.Apr.05] :. Real Sports is, hands down, the best hour of investigative journalism currently on the air.

 
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Music Review

James Brown: Live at the Apollo (1962) [Expanded Edition]

by Jason Korenkiewicz

[9.Jun.04] :. Live at the Apollo finds James Brown growing into his future mantle as the Godfather of Soul and ably joined by his inimitable backing band the Flames to create a 40-minute sonic hallelujah.

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James Brown: James Brown: Soul Survivor [DVD]

by Katie Zerwas

[12.Apr.04] :. The Godfather of Soul is an enigmatic figure shrouded in myth, more legend than man. Most are aware of the indelible mark he has left on popular music, and few can ignore the recent scandals...

 

James Brown

by Matt Rogers

[10.Dec.03] :. S E T    L I S T Shake Your Groove ThingMake It FunkyGet Up Offa That ThingHot PantsTry MeGet on the Good FootKansas CityEvery Beat of My HeartIt’s a...

 

James Brown: In the Jungle Groove

by Brian James

[17.Nov.03] :. Standing uselessly in the Gap the other day as my girlfriend tried on clothes, my mind wandered to the wretched dance music being relentlessly pumped into the hip boutique. Though I can’t dance...

 

James Brown: Soul on Top

by Zeth Lundy

[3.Aug.03] :. James Brown fans: you’re in for a real treat with Soul on Top. It’s been unavailable on compact disc since its original vinyl release, and the reissue sounds fantastic.

 

James Brown: The Best of James Brown: Volume 2—The ‘70s (20th Century Masters: Millennium Collec

by J. Victoria Sanders

[19.Sep.02] :. For all his revolutionary screams and squeals, James Brown stopped making groundbreaking grooves a couple of decades ago. Still, the gems that went straight to the top of Billboard‘s...

 

Undercover Brother (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.May.02] :. Peppered with Chappellian hilarities (and the man can riff), it is more like Austin Powers than a hard-hitting satire, minus Mike Meyers' mania, plus Lee's deft direction and Griffin's own brand of energy.