Questlove’s Summer of Soul is as much an essential music documentary as it is a public service.
It utilizes Maya Angelou’s claim as tantalizing bait rather than the starting point for a feature-length thesis statement.
It’s hard to call to mind another contemporary artist who so deftly employs sheer balls-out guitar skill as St. Vincent.
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Xiu Xiu’s Nina Simone covers album, Nina, doesn’t even drop until December 3rd.
The film feels powerful and alive, capturing the vitality and significance of a politically engaged artist in her joyous prime.
The elegantly designed and sensitively laid out box set notably features tracks even diehard fans may not own on CD.
Reflections and rhymes abound in David Lynch’s Inland Empire.
Legacy Records delivers on the promise of its namesake by giving us a Nina Simone album for the ages.
Nina’s political fire never went out, but her music did become sunnier toward the end of the ’60s.