….It’s been decades since Ms. Braxton was a meek and malleable college student with dreams of becoming a star, but just because her 1995, self-titled debut sold over ten million copies doesn’t mean that her path to stardom was an easy one. In fact, from the very moment Braxton experienced even a a glimpse of… Continue reading Toni Braxton’s “Unbreak My Heart” Memoir, A MOC Preview/ST Book Review Link
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Kindred The Family Soul’s CD “A Couple Friends,” The MOC Preview/ST Review Link
Working as a self-contained unit unto themselves and the parents of six children, Aja and Fatin are used to living and loving in the eye of the hurricane, so to speak, but according to the Mrs., Friends is the first recording that didn’t find her expecting or acclimating to a new baby. That truth doesn’t… Continue reading Kindred The Family Soul’s CD “A Couple Friends,” The MOC Preview/ST Review Link
Kelly Price’s “Sing Pray Love, Vol. 1: Sing”, The MOC Preview/ST Review Link
“Music goes past being what I do to support myself and my family—this is my therapy. I can have a violent moment and get it out in a song; you’ll know it because you’ll hear it, you’ll see it, and it’s probably the safest way.” Kelly Price, 2011 (Knowshi.com) Blessed with some of the most… Continue reading Kelly Price’s “Sing Pray Love, Vol. 1: Sing”, The MOC Preview/ST Review Link
Avery Sunshine’s “The Sunroom,” A MOC Preview/ST CD Review Link
….Ever since I saw Avery open for Kem a couple of years back, tickling the ivories and exuberantly pouring her heart and sultry soprano into songs of uplift, I knew she was going places and that I would be happy to join her for the ride. And that’s what the music of this Chester, PA… Continue reading Avery Sunshine’s “The Sunroom,” A MOC Preview/ST CD Review Link
Michael Jackson’s “Xscape”: The MOC Preview & ST CD Review Link
……For a posthumous release, Xscape is actually worth the ends, giving us the chance to contrast the unvarnished versions of eight songs that were completed during multiple Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Bad, Dangerous and Invincible recording sessions that, for one reason or another, failed to make the final track lists. Some of those song omissions were… Continue reading Michael Jackson’s “Xscape”: The MOC Preview & ST CD Review Link