Something rank and insidious has crept onto the world music scene recently and it’s coming from the reputable weekly journal Time Magazine. The foul scat…
Lost Without Translation
Author: TJ Nelson
TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her latest book, Chasing Athena's Shadow.
Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena's Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace’s great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931.
Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena’s true crime.
Singing For Your Supper
As I am writing this, on the eve of the March 31st parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe, the tunes playing over the airwaves there are as…
Oliver Mtukudzi Responds to Political Accusations
Bloomington, Indiana, USA – Oliver Mtukudzi has been caught in a political crossfire on the eve of Zimbabwe’s parliamentary election. He issued a statement that…
Chicano Music Legend Lalo Guerrero Dies
Eduardo “Lalo” Guerrero Jr., hailed as the father of Chicano music and a voice of the Mexican-American community for more than 60 years has died…
Oh, Danny Don’t
I imagine more than a just few people will be waking up the day after St. Patrick’s Day still wearing-‘o-the-green, of course it might just…
Dumbing Down, the Dwindling Funding of the Arts
Recently, I received in the mail a request for a donation to a children’s softball league. The problem with this request is that it came…
The Soul of the Apache Flute
Bye Bye Santa Baby
For those unfortunate souls in the United States trying to make their way about the business of living and shopping this time of year, there…
Cross Cultural Latin Rock
Los Lonely Boys Los Lonely Boys (Or Music OR803052, 2003) The self-titled debut CD, Los Lonely Boys, has garnered this trio from a tiny town…
The Gypsy Travels of Thierry Robin
Thierry “Titi” Robin Alezane (Naïve WN145049, 2004) For an artist looking back over twenty-five years worth of composing and performance, choosing your favorite pieces for…