Dan DeLuca is an Inquirer pop music critic. But his "In the Mix" column in the Weekend section ventures further afield, into books, movies, TV, the Internet, graphic novels and anything you might call "popular culture."
Recognition is coming to the hard-working Philly band and its must-hear music. Now there's a new album, "Fate."
The five guys in Dr. Dog and their dog Zimba are sitting around their Kensington recording studio on a sunny afternoon talking about Fate.
- Ting A Ling, Ting A Ling
In the midst of a show-stopping "Tired of Being Alone" at the House of Blues in Atlantic City on Sunday night, Al Green read his audience's mind.
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N- again: Those 6 letters
- As rapper Nas puts forth then backs off the N-word in titling his new album, artists and academics have many words about it.It's the word that won't go away. On Tuesday, the acclaimed and controversy-seeking rapper Nas finally released his new album, which he had announced would be named after the word.
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The most notoriously titled, and now de-titled, album of 2008 is neither a return to the mastery of Nas' 1994 classic Illmatic nor the sensationalist travesty that the rapper's critics might have wished for.
- Van Morrison stirs things up with shout-outs and surprises at the Tower.'It's all one song," Neil Young once famously said in response to a heckler who accused him of making music that all sounded alike. The same could be said of the songs of Van Morrison, the Irish singer with a reputation as an uneven live performer.
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Back in the Odelay day, Beck was a carefree sort. Or at least it seemed so, given the gleeful inventiveness of the boy wonder of cut-and-paste postmodern pop.
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Everybody's got a personal playlist of summer songs. It might have Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind," or Sly and the Family Stone's "Hot Fun in the Summertime." The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City," or maybe Regina Spektor's song of the same name. Seals and Croft's "Summer Breeze" might make you feel fine, though I'm betting the Isley Brothers' version would make you feel finer.
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Kenny Gamble and Patti LaBelle have collaborated on "I Am an American," a patriotic recording that will be played during the Welcome America! celebration on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Friday.
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Going away for a good long time can be an excellent career strategy. Ripe for rediscovery in 2008 is Devo, the New Wave- era, futuristic fivesome from Akron, best known for the 1980 hit "Whip It," and for wearing yellow hazmat suits and red "energy dome" flowerpots on their heads.
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Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
- Directed by Adam Yauch. With Michael Beasley, Tyreke Evans, Bobbito Garcia and Jerryd Bayless. Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories. 1 hour, 30 mins. PG-13 (profanity). Playing at: Ritz at the Bourse.
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'Sometimes I listen to my music," Rickie Lee Jones is saying, as she sits in an Old City cafe around the corner from the Painted Bride Art Center, where the peripatetic singer is in the midst of a residency that runs three consecutive Wednesdays, continuing tomorrow.
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Peter Buck put his foot down. When it came time for R.E.M. to record the follow-up to its lethargic, keyboard-drenched 2004 album Around the Sun, the guitarist for the Athens, Ga.-born alt-rock heroes made sure his bandmates, Michael Stipe and Mike Mills, knew exactly where he stood.
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