I am no one's idea of a self-promoter, so it is not with pride but with intense bashfulness that I direct your attention to the latest episode of The Miles Bonny Show, which features an hourlong interview with ... me. It also contains a brand-new video of Miles covering a Raphael Saadiq song, which is really good. Watch it for that -- or if you think you might enjoy some solid, decent bullshitting about local music, what my job is like, what Miles thinks about downtown developments, and stuff li
By BRIAN BARR
Raphael Saadiq just wasn't made for these times. Then again, maybe he was. Like Erykah Badu, the former Tony! Toni! Tone! frontman, who is playing tonight at the VooDoo Lounge, is an analog guy in a digital world. But his old-school way of thinking has lead him to successful collaborations with Q-Tip, Mary J. Blige, The Roots, Bilal, and countless others who have needed a producer to give their music a little more "retro" feeling. Last year, he released The Way I See It, a set of
Ordinarily, nostalgic revivals of the artistic modes from past decades are an embarrassing aggregation of the most cliched features your parents can remember. I'm talking about this guy:
This annoying bastard spent a lot of money on his zoot suit during the ghastly swing revival of the 1990s and wore it everywhere from Cherry Poppin' Daddies shows to Starbucks while trying not to seem self-conscious. And failing. JUMP, JIVE AND WAIL, you guys. He's an ugly caricature of an era that was way m
