Music Reviews and Choices
- A Look at Pop Around the Globe: From Operatic Creole Harmonies to Riot-Grrl-Inspired French Rappers
[Village Voice, 2011-10-05]
- Aretha: The Voice of America: [Village Voice, 2018-08-17]
- August Darnell And The Creole Perplex: [Village Voice, 1982-07-27]
- Bernard Edwards, 1952-1996: [Village Voice, 1996-05-07]
- Confronting Marley's Legacy: [The Record, 1983-09]
- Dallas Austin: Manchild In The Promised Land: [Fanfare, 1995-07-02]
- David Byrne Looks Forward . . . and Back: Celebrating the release of Grown Backwards (Nonesuch Records)
[The L, 2004-10]
- David Guetta's Dance Music Melting Pot: [Village Voice, 2011-08-29]
- Downtown Icon James Chance Cuts Loose: [Village Voice, 2016-11-16]
- Emerald Sapphire & Gold: Alive, Well And Working In The South Bronx: [Dance Music Report, 1990-09-26]
- Etta James, R.I.P.: [Village Voice Blogs, 2012-01-23]
- GlobalFest Surges On: A worldly showcase flourishes, recession notwithstanding
[Village Voice, 2009-01-13]
- Global Fest - Webster Hall - 1/13: [Village Voice, 2013-01-14]
- Green Day: Punk Rock With A Sense Of Humor: Green Day: Nassau Coliseum, NY
[Newsday, 1995]
- Higher Ground: Sade: Lovers Rock / Rachelle Ferrell: Individuality (Can I Be Me?) / Spooks: S.I.O.S.O.S. Volume One
[Village Voice, 2000-12-19]
- High Voltage: Electric Eel Shock
[The L Magazine, 2011-11-15]
- Iggy Pop: Roseland, New York, NY
[Newsday, 1996-04-11]
- Imps of the Perverse: Macy Gray, The Trouble With Being Myself; Mya, Moodring
[Village Voice, 2003-10-24]
- Isaac Hayes: We Like Ike: [Village Voice, 1995-07-25]
- Janet Jackson's Dungeon Master Chic: [Village Voice, 2008-02-26]
- Kid Creole & the Coconuts: To the Life Boats: [The Face, 1983-09]
- Lady Madonna Storms Philly: [Rock's Backpages, 2012-09-10]
- Latin Swing's Last Lion: Johnny Pacheco Returns to the New York His Salsa Once Changed
[Village Voice, 2004-01-20]
- Lee Perry & Maxi Priest: Reggae Redux: [Village Voice, 1990-11-13]
- Live: Concha Buika Plays With Pronouncs . . . and You: [Village Voice, 2012-06-25]
- Live: Gonjasufi Presses On in the Midst of Techical Chaos: [Village Voice, 2012-09-25]
- Live: Imani Uzuri Brings the Gypsy Life to Joe's Pub: [Village Voice, 2012-06-04]
- Live: Kathleen Battle Does It Her Way at the Blue Note: [Village Voice, 2012-06-20]
- Live: Ljuba Davis Leads Her Masterful Combo at Drom: [Village Voice, 2012-06-18]
- Live: The Boogaloo! Party Keeps It Moving at Nublu: Spanglish Fly
[Village Voice, 2011-08-29]
- Live: Yann Tiersen Gets Playful at Irving Plaza: [Village Voice, 2012-04-30]
- Maria Muldaur: A Multifaced Muldaur: [Newsday, 1996-04]
- Meshell Ndegeocello Gets Crafty on "Weather": [Village Voice Blogs, 2011-11-15]
- More Melting-Pot Jams From Jovial L.A. Hip-Churners: Ozomatli
[Village Voice, 2007-04-03]
- More Than Words: Going Polyglot With Concha Buika and Les Nubians: [Village Voice Blogs, 2011-06-20]
- Nice Girls Finish Fast: Isyss, The Way We Do
[Village Voice, 2002-11-26]
- Nova Ruth Wants to Free Us From the Bondage of Wage Slavery: [Village Voice, 2017-06-07]
- Outward Is Heavenward: Gospel
[Village Voice, 2006-07-03]
- Pablo Moses's Acid Reign: [Village Voice, 1984-01-17]
- Pazz & Jop 2011: Carol Cooper on Keny Arkana's Rebellion, Chart Pop's Disco Revivalism, And Voters' Fear of Gospel
[Village Voice, 2012-01-19]
- Post-Iberia: Multicultural musicians attain authenticity without purity
[Village Voice, 2004-01-20]
- Pretty Young Things: The women of TLC stay cool under fire
[Rolling Stone, 1995-08-24]
- Princely Digs: Prince, 3121
[Village Voice, 2006-05-01]
- Prince: Someday Your Prince Will Come: [The Face, 1983-06]
- Prince: The Most Inscrutable Cocktease In The World: [Village Voice, 1994-08-30]
- Pure Percussive Pleasure: Kenny Gonzalez and Louie Vega
[Village Voice, 2006-10-09]
- Putumayo: The Little Label That Could: World-compilation label Putumayo successfully sells high concepts to well-heeled base
[Village Voice, 2004-07-02]
- Rakim, Marly Marl, Roxanne Shanté, and Other Rap Pioneers Celebrate Forty Years of Hip-Hop: [Village Voice, 2017-05-03]
- Regulars: The Scissor Sisters
[Village Voice, 2003-06-10]
- Remembering the Fever: [2000]
- Rise of the Anachronauts: On Dan Hicks, Leonard Cohen, Etta James, and other fearless time travelers
[Village Voice, 2009-05-05]
- Run DMC: Run for It: [The Face, 1984-11]
- Slightly Grey Feisty Females Strut Their Sassiest Stuff: Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women's Deluxe Edition
[Village Voice, 2006-03-24]
- Songs of Global Resistance and Celebration: [First of the Month, 2019-03-01]
- Still Beating: A Bronx Festival Celebrates Centuries-Old Puerto Rican Rhythms: [Village Voice, 2016-10-05]
- Surf Pop: The New Wave: Cowabunga!
[Village Voice, 1996-09-17]
- The Black Music Association Of Jah People: [Soho Weekly News, 1979-06-28]
- The Definitive Otis Redding: Liner Notes
[Rhino Records, 1993]
- The Long Road Home: The World's Biggest Country Duo Risk Backlash With a Great Rock Album
[2003-08-01]
- The Noise From Brazil: [Elle, 1998-08]
- The 'Other' R&B: Solu Music: Affirmation, Salomé de Bahia: Brasil
[Village Voice, 2005-10-04]
- The Public Enemy Remix Project: Public Enemy
[Village Voice, 2007-09-26]
- The Rebirth Brass Band Bring Their Brashness to Treme: [Village Voice, 2011-04-20]
- The Street-Savvy Talent Scout That Shaped New York Dance Music: [Red Bull Daily Bulletin, 2017-08-30]
- Tori Amos: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
[New York Daily News, 1996-05-15]
- Various Blues Interpretations, From the Nuanced to the Masochistic: The Holmes Brothers; Coco Montoya; Vesta Williams
[Village Voice, 2007-01-29]
- Welcome to the Cardi Party: [Village Voice, 2019-02-09]
- Why "World Music" Doesn't Mean Anything Anymore: What I Learned at APAP: [Village Voice, 2013-01-14]