Touch the lightning
How to describe the California band He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister? As a combination of several things, really. A sound that’s part blues and part folk and — not by definition — draws on rockabilly too. A visual style…
Songs and the square
Although we last touched base with the 2011 Egyptian revolution only three months ago (see “A revolutionary/counter-revolutionary phrase book“, January 24), French broadcast services RFI and France 24 recently unveiled a remarkable web documentary on the music and musicians of…
Getting out the vote
We’re big fans around here of doing our bit to promote SCOPE contributors, but since we haven’t yet featured this particular band in the magazine or blog, consider this a garden-variety inverse post hoc contributor promo. In other words, we…
Before the curtain
Readers in or visiting Tel Aviv between now and December 13th will want to consider dropping by The Israeli Opera to see “A Momentary Lapse of Reason“: an exhibition of Maya Hed’s photographs of eminent jazz musicians playing the opera…
Any instrument will do
It is standard operating procedure for media to discuss a musician only when there’s a “hook”; in other words, when an album has been released, a tour begun, or a scandal broken. Here at SCOPE we watch for hooks too,…
Ragamuffin en pointe
Belgium-born Selah Sue grew up wanting to be a ballerina, studied psychology in university, and ended up composing and singing songs heavily-influenced by reggae, funk, and soul. She sings a duet with Cee-Lo Green (“Please”) on his latest album; attention…
