Music

Better Than: Paying $50 for popcorn and milk duds only to sit through an hour and 45 minutes of Lindsay Lohan’s greatest adventures. The Review: Electroma, the new film written by the Daft Punk wonder couple, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, was first seen by the eyes of a…

Twenty-seven year old Singer Siccaturie Alcock, better known as ‘Jah Cure’, has been released from prison. The Jamaican singer who was convicted on rape, illegal possession of a firearm and robbery was released at 5:30 Saturday morning. Jah Cure was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 1998. Although he…

BrakesBrakesBrakes’ sophomore album is a skittish romp that finds the young British band (whose members include alumni of British Sea Power and Electric Soft Parade) interspersing off-kilter rockers that give a nod toward the B-52’s, XTC, and Talking Heads, with solemn, meditative ballads and the occasional hint of country twang…

When the great roll of American jazz composers is called, the late Charles Mingus (1922-79) will be near the tip-top. Mingus was and remains unique in that he drew on the entire jazz tradition for inspiration along with European classical music and the speaking-in-tongues zeal of the Holiness Church. The…

Jesus Christ was everybody’s favorite person on the evening of June 22 at Redeeming Word Christian Center, a big church way out near the end of Prospect Road in Fort Lauderdale. In a very-distant second place was Kristine Alicia, the young woman whose debut album was launched that night in…

Most single-name musicians are too egotistical for their own good. Singers like Cher, Madonna, and Prince — yes, that type of single-name musician — can be remarkably talented and full of charisma on stage, but when not performing, they’re known stinkers. Sting won’t give you the time of day if…

The University of Miami School of Music claims some notable alumni, two of the best-known being Pat Metheny and Bruce Hornsby. Only time will tell whether Sam Friend will reach their level, but if his first EP is any indication, this 22-year-old UM grad is off to a good start…

To fans, Queens of the Stone Age can do no wrong and mastermind Josh Homme is a visionary on par with Thom Yorke. This cult exists because Homme comes off as a dude who could be hanging on your tattered couch, packing the bong, and quoting Fletch. Yet he’s a…

Too often, enthusiasts of African music from the ’60s and ’70s focus on the sounds trickling out of Lagos and Johannesburg as if the barometer for continental coolness depended solely on Nigeria and South Africa. There were dozens of good musical styles emanating from those two hotbeds during that time…

The Web site bigchampagne.com publishes a list of the top downloaded tracks in America. The cool thing about this list is that, unlike iTunes, it takes into account illegal downlaods. Here are the top ten downloaded songs from July 17 to July 24, 2007: Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry…