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."
Email Dan at ddeluca@phillynews.com
- Another fine mess of music videos and albums
- Gallery: iHeartRadio festival
R&B singer Bettye LaVette had her first hit in 1962, then struggled. This week she releases an album and a memoir, and plays World Cafe Live.
R&B singer Bettye LaVette had her first hit in 1962, then struggled. This week she releases an album and a memoir, and plays World Cafe Live.
- Review: Bon Iver at the Mann
- 2012 Fall Arts Preview: Interactive special section with our critics' picks
- Music critic Dan DeLuca on upcoming releases, concerts
Dan DeLuca: Justin Vernon of Bon Iver made his reputation with his 2007 album For Emma, Forever Ago, a set of songs recorded in virtual isolation in a cabin in the woods in northwestern Wisconsin while recovering from a bad case of mononucleosis and a broken heart.
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Review: 'Cruel Summer'
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Dan DeLuca: Pink's new album, "The Truth About Love," and G.O.O.D. Music's long-awaited "Cruel Summer" were both released Tuesday.
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Ian Hunter, as good as ever, at World Cafe Live
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Back in the Bicentennial year of 1976, English rocker and Mott the Hoople leader Ian Hunter called his second solo album All American Alien Boy.
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Bob Dylan: 'Tempest'
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Review: Bob Dylan's astonishing 35th album is tempestuous indeed, with gravelly tales of life and love. And at 71, he's packin'.
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From the Boss, gifts for fans on Labor Day
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Dan DeLuca: Two shows at Citizens Bank Park and two starkly different approaches by the Boss and his musical compadres.
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Looking ahead as MIA ends
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Hip-hop and electronic sounds dominated Saturday in the form of headliners Jay-Z and dubstep DJ Skrillex, while on Sunday the Parkway became the setting for a full-on rock show.
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Party on the Parkway
- Jay-Z and Pearl Jam headline this weekendDan DeLuca: And so, it is finally upon us. The inaugural Budweiser Made in America festival, headlined and "curated" - the most overused word in pop culture these days - by Jay-Z will take over this weekend.
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Madonna: Ripped, ready, and reaching for relevance
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The pop music spectacle at the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia on Tuesday night began with a group of dancers in hooded medieval garb pulling a rope that made a giant, smoking thurible suspended from the rafters swing back and forth, while a Basque folk trio chanted the name of the show's star.
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Jay-Z, Springsteen offer inclusive theme
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Dan DeLuca: Two of the biggest names in American music will go to work in Philadelphia on Labor Day weekend.
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Beanie Sigel discusses new album, his 'Expensive Taste'
- "This Time," Beanie Sigel's sixth album, will relaunch Ruffhouse Records. Then come two weeks of promotion, emotion, commotion, and the Philadelphia rapper's off to do time - again.Dan DeLuca: Surrounded by gold and platinum records hanging on the wall, Beanie Sigel is leaning back in the Conshohocken offices of Ruffhouse Records, talking about his "Expensive Taste."
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