HEAR TODAY NEW RELEASES AND NEWS FORM THE MUSIC WORLD.Byline: - Compiled by Fred Shuster Here's a sampling from the more than 350 new record releases in stores today: Longwave, ``The Strangest Things'' (RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. ) This New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of foursome plainly loves Ride, Slowdive and other Brit shoe-gazers of the last decade. Recently returned home from a tour with the Strokes, Longwave will hit town next month with the much buzzed-about Raveonettes. Ibrahim Ferrer Ibrahim Ferrer (February 20, 1927 – August 6, 2005) was a popular Afro-Cuban singer and musician in Cuba. He performed with many musical groups including the Afro-Cuban All Stars. , ``Buenos Hermanos'' (World Circuit) Produced by Ry Cooder Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is an American guitarist, singer and composer, known for his slide guitar work, his interest in the American roots music and, more recently, for his collaborations with traditional musicians from many , the great Cuban vocalist Ferrer's second album has a looser, more contemporary feel than his first. Appearing April 1-2 at UCLA's Royce Hall. Libertines, ``Up the Bracket'' (Sanctuary) Snotty punk from a London garage, produced by the Clash's Mick Jones. The Brit papers reported the quartet's sound man quit in disgust after the group lived up to its name and more on a recent slash 'n' burn trek through Europe. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last night in New York, the Clash rivaled only the Keith Moon-era Who as the most exciting live act of the 1970s. Out today is ``The Essential Clash,'' a two-disc anthology of terse anthems collected from among the group's albums and ingenious singles. For a while, the Clash was ``the only band that mattered,'' as the Xeroxed posters read for a word-of-mouth gig in 1979. And as anyone can attest who witnessed Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello's heartfelt version of ``London Calling'' in tribute to fallen Clash leader Joe Strummer on last month's Grammys telecast, they'll never be forgotten. A welcome aspect of the reissues boom is the number of first-class archival recordings that have become available again. One such event is the Nonesuch none·such also non·such n. 1. A person or thing without equal. 2. See black medic. none Explorer Series, a collection of 92 field recordings grouped by global region originally issued on vinyl from 1967 to 1984. New in stores are a dozen titles from Indonesia and the South Pacific, including ``Golden Rain,'' a 1969 album that earned a cult following for its 22-minute recording of Bali's ketjak or monkey chant. Other albums in the lot feature always-useful Tahitian love songs and war chants, and recordings of drums made from shark bellies and stingray stingray: see ray. stingray or whip-tailed ray Any of various species (family Dasyatidae) of rays noted for their slender, whiplike tail with barbed, usually venomous spines. . After a four-year hiatus, the r&b harmony quartet that reached the top of the charts in 1996 with the dance floor ditty dit·ty n. pl. dit·ties A simple song. [Middle English dite, a literary composition, from Old French dite, from Latin dict ``No Diggity'' returns to the fray with a new album of street-inspired hip-hop and ballads. BlackStreet - whose most famous face is producer Teddy Riley - comes back smooth with ``Level II.'' Riley describes the disc as a concept album that takes listeners along on a ``journey with women,'' from a chance meeting at a club to the boudoir to afterward when ``sometimes a man can't remember a woman's name.'' Short-term memory short-term memory n. Abbr. STM The phase of the memory process in which stimuli that have been recognized and registered are stored briefly. isn't BlackStreet's only problem - the group's first hit was spelled ``Booti Call.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) no caption (BlackStreet) (2) no caption (the Clash) |
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