Clinical studio perfection? Check. Ostentatious instrumental prowess? Check. Clever jazz references? Check. Insufferably smug fan base? Check. Snarky Puppy is the new Steely Dan. The absence of Donald Fagen’s disdainful voice is the only substantive difference between Snarky Puppy’s Immigrance and Steely Dan albums like Aja. Oh sure, Immigrance possesses additional components: the most dreadful moments reference the bloated pop of Toto while the best bits recall Return to Forever’s prog-rock fusion. But it’s just a matter of time until a prankster releases a mashup of Immigrance and Aja. I’m going to be all about it. Here’s “Bad Kids to the Back”.
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I write weekly concert previews for The Kansas City Star and Ink magazine.
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I took a field trip to 424 Lounge in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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The R&B OG Andre Williams has died. Here’s one of the Williams concert reviews I wrote for The Kansas City Star.
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The rock guitar pioneer Dick Dale has died.
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I’ve elected not to share the sordid details of the lucid dream I experienced after drifting off to the Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet’s evocative Metamodal. RIYL: Regina Carter, Venus de Milo, John Blake.
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I didn’t see the maturation of 2 Chainz coming. Not only does Rap or Go to the League go down easy, the star-studded project offers nourishing food for thought. Here’s “Money in the Way”.
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The video of Tortoise’s set at the Midwinter festival is excellent.
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It’s not funny anymore.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
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It never was.
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