Clarendon Guesthouse, April 18 In the mid-1950s a little studio in Memphis, Tennessee, helped define rock’n’roll and the course of popular music for the next half century. Sons of Sun is the story of Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Studio and Sun Records, who played a pivotal role in…
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Isotropes (hellosQuare) This band could not be better named, because even just in stereo the music surrounds you. Sounds of seeming substance loom out of a swirling mist of smaller sounds, but then dissolve, so all is ephemeral and ghostly. Just like life. Sensaround consists of Alister Spence (Fender Rhodes,…
Concert Hall, April 12 One could have reasonably assumed that Mavis Staples and Angelique Kidjo were joint headline acts. Staples, after all, has been a pivotal figure in r’n’b, gospel music and even the civil rights movement. So why was she given the support-act treatment? Why the bottom-drawer production values…