Jose Gonzalez Jose Gonzalez's In Our Nature was arguably last year's most deceptive album. From a distance, Gonzalez's understated tenor voice and alternately percussive and beautifully finger-picked guitar make it sound like a somber, downcast, introspec
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Pop When I listened to Lust Lust Lust while driving through a blinding snowstorm in central Pennsylvania the other day, the blizzard of noise surrounding Sune Rose Wagner's and Sharin Foo's girl-group and rockabilly retro squall provided a suitable aural
The television appearances of the entertainer Henri Salvador brightened up many a childhood in France throughout the Sixties and Seventies. He was best known as a performer of catchy novelty songs such as "Zorro Est Arrivé" (a version of the Coasters' "Along Came Jones" which cashed in on the Western craze), the ode to laziness "Le Travail C'est La Santé", the nonsensical "Juanita Banana" and
Is there no end to the beats, tunes and genres Brazil has bestowed on the world? Over the years, we've swayed to the samba, bossa nova, lambada, frevo, tropicalia, forro and now, a "new" sound about to gain exposure way up north.
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