Let’s just keep it real, ladies and gentlemen: While it’s a given that most people enjoy music and Christmas, combining the two in the form of a holiday-themed CD can garner results that are not unlike a badly-made fruitcake, where the effort is pain-staking and well-intended, but the results are a cloying and super-sappy mess.… Continue reading Kem, “What Christmas Means,” The ST CD Review
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Antoine Dunn’s “The Truth of the Matter,” a ST CD Review
He’s not even 25 years old yet, but when you look at, listen to and become familiar with the back-story of Antoine Dunn, it’s clear that he’s an old soul. Born in Cleveland, raised in the church and cultivating a professional rep as a commissioned songwriter practically right out of high school, Mr. Dunn already… Continue reading Antoine Dunn’s “The Truth of the Matter,” a ST CD Review
Joe, Jennings & Brian McKnight Bring Sexy Soul To Dallas’ Verizon Theater
If you’re a stone-to-the-bone music lover, grimace at what passes for talent these days and find yourself uttering “Maaaaaaan, where are the real ‘sangers’ at?”, chances are you were in the house—-or should’ve been there—-when Joe, Lyfe Jennings and headliner Brian McKnight served heaping portions of sultry soul recently at the Verizon Theatre in Dallas.… Continue reading Joe, Jennings & Brian McKnight Bring Sexy Soul To Dallas’ Verizon Theater
Rene Syler: Relating To & Moderating at 2012’s “Nappiology Inc.” Expo, DMN Version
Whether we choose to twist it, press it, Afro it or lock it, few topics ignite friendships or frictions among Black women faster than how we choose to wear our hair. What’s usually a matter of preference or practicality for women of other ethnicities, the style choices of African-Americans are often a meld of the… Continue reading Rene Syler: Relating To & Moderating at 2012’s “Nappiology Inc.” Expo, DMN Version
Jackiem Joyner’s “Church Boy”, a ST CD Review
Selling on the secular charts yet raised in the realm of the sanctified: it’s a typical circumstance that defines many musicians, and what dictates their direction as artists differs from one to the next, since some see returning to spiritual leanings as an embrace of the past or inevitable recognition of their future (or fan… Continue reading Jackiem Joyner’s “Church Boy”, a ST CD Review