http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca RSS Feed for Inq Col Dan DeLuca en-us Tue, 29 May 2012 13:28:33 GMT 2012-05-29T13:28:33Z en-us http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120527_Beyonc_eacute__rocks_Revel__Passion__hard_work__and_a_call_for_respect.html Toward the end of the second night of Beyoncé’s four-show Memorial Day weekend stand at the Revel casino and resort in Atlantic City on Saturday, the singer and her 11-member all-female band turned their attention to a feminist club-banger called "Run the World (Girls)."With First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia seated in a box to her left at Revel’s 5,050-person capacity Ovation Hall, the pop and R&B world’s ruling Queen Bee declared herself — and her Sisters — "Smart enough to make these millions, strong enough to bear the children / And get back to business." For Beyoncé, these shows, taking place at the new $2.4 billion resort whose success is thought to be so crucial to Atlantic City’s economic future, were an opportunity to do just that. The 30-year-old singer did not tour behind her 2011 album 4, and these are her first performances — she’s due back on stage Sunday and Monday nights — since giving birth in January to Blue Ivy Carter, her daughter with husband Jay-Z, the other half of the foremost power couple in pop music. Tue, 29 May 2012 13:28:33 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120527_Beyonc_eacute__rocks_Revel__Passion__hard_work__and_a_call_for_respect.html 2012-05-29T13:28:33Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120525__In_the_Mix_.html Inquirer critic Dan DeLuca writes about pop music and culture at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inthemix. Fri, 25 May 2012 07:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120525__In_the_Mix_.html 2012-05-25T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120522_Pearl_Jam__Skrillex__Santigold_to_headline_Jay-Z_rsquo_s_Made_in_America_fest_in_Philly.html Pearl Jam, the Seattle grunge survivors fronted by Eddie Vedder who closed down the Spectrum in South Philadelphia in 2009 with four sold-out shows, will headline the “Made in America” festival in Philadelphia on Sept. 1 and 2 along with Jay-Z. Other notable acts added to the lineup on Monday included Skrillex, the electronic producer and DJ (born Sonny Moore) who won three Grammy Awards this year and has become the face of dubstep, the throbbing, bass-heavy dance music; Maybach Music, the alliance of hip-hop heavyweight Rick Ross, Washington rapper Wale, and Philadelphia’s Meek Mill; the formerly reclusive, now resurgent soul man D’Angelo; Dutch DJ Afrojack; the acclaimed Brooklyn indie-rock band Dirty Projectors; genre-smashing avant-pop acts Janelle Monáe and Santigold (the Philadelphia-reared songwriter Santi White); controversial hip-hop collective Odd Future, and indie-electro band Passion Pit. Wed, 23 May 2012 03:20:57 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120522_Pearl_Jam__Skrillex__Santigold_to_headline_Jay-Z_rsquo_s_Made_in_America_fest_in_Philly.html 2012-05-23T03:20:57Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120520_The_Beach_Boys_at_50__Reaching_their_fans_through_QVC.html And on the 46th anniversary of the release of Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys played QVC. The reunited Beach Boys, that is, who are in the early stages of a 50th-anniversary reunion tour that was to have played a sold-out show at the Borgata on Saturday before returning to the Philadelphia area for a show at the Susquehanna Bank Center on June 16. They came to the sprawling 84-acre West Chester campus of the home shopping channel to hawk That’s Why God Made the Radio, their new album due to be released June 5. Mon, 21 May 2012 14:43:10 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120520_The_Beach_Boys_at_50__Reaching_their_fans_through_QVC.html 2012-05-21T14:43:10Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120518__In_the_Mix_.html Inquirer critic Dan DeLuca writes about pop music and culture at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inthemix. Fri, 18 May 2012 07:01:00 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120518__In_the_Mix_.html 2012-05-18T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120517_Who_is_Bob_Lefsetz__and_why_are_radio_insiders_eager_to_hear_him_speak_.html Look out Non-Comm, here comes Bob Lefsetz. Bob who? Non-what? Thu, 17 May 2012 18:05:01 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120517_Who_is_Bob_Lefsetz__and_why_are_radio_insiders_eager_to_hear_him_speak_.html 2012-05-17T18:05:01Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120513_Empowered_Santigold_touring_behind__lsquo_Master_of_My_Make-Believe_rsquo_.html On “Disparate Youth,” the single from Santigold’s new album, Master Of My Make-Believe, that she sang Tuesday at the Trocadero while flanked by a pair of dancers and wearing a floral-print romper, the avant-pop singer led the crowd in the mantra-like chorus: “We know now that we want more?/?Oh-ah, Oh-ah?/?A life worth fighting for.” And what, for Santi White — the Mount Airy-raised, Brooklyn-based, genre-mashing songwriter who began her U.S. tour for her keenly anticipated sophomore album with a sold-out show at the Chinatown club — what, exactly, constitutes “a life worth fighting for”? Sun, 13 May 2012 15:47:25 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120513_Empowered_Santigold_touring_behind__lsquo_Master_of_My_Make-Believe_rsquo_.html 2012-05-13T15:47:25Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120505_Adam_Yauch__47__of_the_Beastie_Boys.html Adam Yauch, 47, a founding member of the Beastie Boys, the pioneering New York hip-hop group whose 1980s breakthrough as impudent, white rap superstars was followed by a long career that combined popular success with musical innovation, died Friday in New York. Sun, 06 May 2012 14:53:14 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120505_Adam_Yauch__47__of_the_Beastie_Boys.html 2012-05-06T14:53:14Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120429_Dan_DeLuca_reviews_the_latest_installment_of__Robert_Caro_rsquo_s_biography_of_Lyndon_B__Johnson.html The Passage Of Power The Years of Lyndon Johnson By Robert A. Caro Alfred A. Knopf, 712 pp. $35. Reviewed by Dan DeLuca Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:10:45 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120429_Dan_DeLuca_reviews_the_latest_installment_of__Robert_Caro_rsquo_s_biography_of_Lyndon_B__Johnson.html 2012-04-29T11:10:45Z http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120424_Highlights_of_the_XPN_Music_Film_Festival.html Big Easy Express. Directed by Emmett Malloy (The White Stripes Under Great Northern Lights), Big Easy Express rides the rails across the western United States, chronicling a five-city tour with the simpatico folk bands Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show, playing and singing their own songs before climaxing with a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “This Train Is Bound for Glory.” Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center. Charles Bradley: Soul of America. Poull Brien’s documentary focuses on Charles Bradley, who looks back on a life of poverty and struggle and, with the help of Daptones Records founder Gabriel Roth, transforms himself from a James Brown cover act to a soul singer with a singular sound who releases his debut album at age 62. Friday at 5 p.m. at the Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center. Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:33:03 GMT http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/dan_deluca/20120424_Highlights_of_the_XPN_Music_Film_Festival.html 2012-04-28T05:33:03Z