Tag Archives: Juba Dance

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Four)

They’re the best around; the fourth and final day of El Keter’s favorites of 2008.

Albums That Should Suck, But Don’t: 808s & Heartbreak

Something like a bazillion years ago (okay, it was more like a year and change) I tried starting a new regular Blogarhythms feature about things…Be they artists, albums or whatever…That should in theory “suck,” but don’t. I got as far as profiling rich kid son of a superstar guitarist turned superstar DJ turned superstar […]

“Deportees (Things Change)” © Mark Anthony Myrie

Does anybody know what Sade’s been doing since she released Lovers Rock close to eight long years ago? Not that she really has to do anything, other than look sexy, but I kinda miss her is all. And I guess the Sophisti-Pop influence — an amalgam of Jazz, continental Pop, orchestral […]

Juba Dance paints Chicago orange

There are certain acts I happen across that make me feel as though they make their music just for me, or at least people like me. Sometimes this feeling based on songwriting and lyrics which just happen to reflect my life in a special way. Others times it’s the acts’ sound, the individual tones & […]