by Mark Saleski While many “serious” jazz fans will turn up their precious noses at the jazzification of pop tunes, we here at SomethingElse! steadfastly believe that life is too short to be keeping that bow tie so tight. Sure, we love us some Miles and ‘Trane, but that doesn’t mean we’re against letting our hair down. C’mon, we’re just [...]
by Something Else Reviews Call them a guilty pleasure. (We have.) But the truth is, there’s more to Hall and Oates than the sum of their blow-dried caricature. So, we set about looking for tunes that made some points: That they brilliantly connected the dots between new wave and and rock music’s R&B ancestry. That they were more than just [...]
by Nick DeRiso Mark, late last week, said he didn’t get the whole guilty-pleasure thing. Excuse me, as the ageless line in “Blazing Saddles” once went, while I whip this out: “Escape,” a Rubert Holmes tripe that includes the helpful addendum (as if any fool, ahem, who knows all the words, cough, could forget): The Pina Colada Song. I know. [...]
by Mark Saleski Lots of review sites have already posted their best-of lists for 2010. We here at SomethingElse! are still in heavy consideration mode. Every single evening for the past couple of weeks we have been locking ourselves into the SomethingElse!Study™ with our slippers, smoking jackets, top-shelf brandy, and sharpened pencils. Now don’t you laugh…Nick looks absolutely swank in [...]
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