Who will be this year's Amy Winehouse? Nobody, that's who. Smoky-voiced, beehive-hairdo'd, tabloid train-wreck retro-R&B singers who write powerfully revealing, instantly grabby songs don't wander onto the pop culture landscape every day.
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- It's not only female vocalists who have tapped into the time-honored British tradition of selling American music back to the Yanks: There's also the Heavy, a five-piece band from Noid, England, whose electric debut Great Vengeance and Furious Fire (Counter ***) draws from the Curtis Mayfield-Sly Stone reservoir of American soul.
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On tour: Three Swedish girls
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The Swedes were here first. Before the English, before Billy Penn's Quakers, before the Dutch even, the first European settlements in Philadelphia were Swedish. Fitting, then, that a trio of Swedish female indie-pop acts began their North American package tour here, on Tuesday night, in the former colony of New Sweden.
- Pop "Who says you can't take a shot at the president, just say you're sorry and be on your way?" Ike Reilly spits out in "Fish Plant Rebellion." Like the best rockers, and you can count him among them, Reilly delights in wreaking havoc with polite society. He continues to do just that with Poison the Hit Parade.
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Michael Pedicin, a mind for jazz
- The Phila. sax man's passion is as clear as his sound.No matter how you look at it, Philadelphia saxophonist/psychologist Michael Pedicin has an amazing pedigree; a musician whose father is one of rock-and-roll's unsung heroes; a tenor man whose tone, spirit and muscularity has long had Coltrane as its guiding light; a session cat who brightened Sigma Sound Studio recordings by the O'Jays and David Bowie as well as Pat Martino and Dave Brubeck.
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Video: PLAYLIST: Music - Most Recent
This is playlist for most recent Music - Erykah Badu Erykah Badu's new CD, New Amerykah, Pt. 1 (4th World War), is only her fourth studio album since she emerged as a neosoul Billie Holiday with Badizm in 1997 and her first since the loose-limbed Worldwide Underground in 2003. In the intervening
- In Concert Boardwalk Hall One Ocean Way, Atlantic City; 609-449-2000. www.boardwalkhall.com. Van Halen. $49.50-$149.50. 5/9 8 pm.
- Casinos Atlantic City Hilton Boston at the Boardwalk, Atlantic City; 609-347-7111. www.hiltonac.com. Satisfaction - Rolling Stones tribute band. $10. 5/10 9 pm.
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Startling takes on Mayfield
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It's not the first thing you'd expect: New York avant-garde jazz bassist William Parker playing the songs of R&B pioneer Curtis Mayfield. Yet that's what transpired Saturday at the Painted Bride.
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Parton's show of good fun, music
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A force of nature in a glittering gown and a blonde wig piled high, Dolly Parton filled up the Event Center at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa in Atlantic City on Saturday with her outsized personality and an unstoppable combination of down-home musical dazzle and showbiz pizzazz.
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