Alison Fensterstock
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The Philly rockers return one year later with Dirty Pictures (Part 2), a collection of songs with more emotional complexity, but still plenty of boogie.
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In the wake of criminal charges against the trumpeter and bandleader, a city laments that a visible face of recovery for his battered and beaten hometown might also have been bilking it.
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Thomas' 1964 album is not the usual entry point into her work for newer fans — but it's the album that introduced the local hitmaker to the world at large.
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Hear essential songs by the late architect of rock and roll, plus recordings by artists who influenced him, and those who covered and took inspiration from him.
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The performances of this trailblazing transgender singer — once radically visible, now long hidden — have been likened to tornadoes. A new box set is a document of a career that never followed rules.
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The Pogues' Spider Stacy, Leyla McCalla and the saxophonist Dickie Landry contribute to a deep, atavistic and swampy version of "Kalenda."
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Having cycled through a full generation of performers (not to mention audience), how does the grandpa of festival culture compete in the Coachella-sized market it helped create?
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Pan-generational brass bands join this joyous, weird trip through New Orleans cemeteries and streets, with cameos from stalwarts of local street culture.
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The second album by Rickie Lee Jones was released in 1981, following a breakup and the response to Jones' Grammy-winning debut, and gets its name and its concept from a band of local drug smugglers.
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The family gospel trio's new album is soul-stirring praise music married to the electric rhythms of Memphis.