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Rap and classical may be two different types of music, but they don’t have anything else in common, do they? They have different methods, different moods, and, of course, different audiences. But, believe it or not, they do have at least one thing in common: Chilly Gonzales.
In his ground-breaking (though some might prefer to call it “preposterous”) new album, The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales, the eccentric
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From R&B, soul, and gospel to reggae and hip-hop, vocalist Urban Mystic belts out each of these diverse styles with such passion and feeling in the third part of the five-volume series, Ghetto Revelations. The 14-cut CD, GRIII: Old School 2 Nu Skool, shows just how versatile this Florida-born minister’s son is.
Twenty-four-year-old Urban Mystic grabs us right from the start, with his powerful, emotional voice in “Obama:
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I got an unusual introduction to Flobots’ new album, Fight With Tools: a critic friend handed the disc to me and said, “I never want to see this CD again.” Now, despite the fact that I tend to agree with this critic friend, his introduction made Fight With Tools feel less like an album to check out and more like a challenge. Surely, I thought to myself, it can’t be that bad. And I became determined to totally love
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