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Kevin Cuneo’s Take 30: Hard times yield great songs for René Marie

By Kevin Cuneo Not until she was 42 did jazz singer René Marie start her professional career. I guess you could chalk up the life experiences of her first four decades as research, because now she pours every bit of the pain, joy and suffering into each song. Married at 18, she remained with an […]

Jazz singer returns for performance at Mercyhurst

By John Chacona, Erie Times-News Contributing writer There is a certain kind of jazz fan whose interest in the music is as much forensic as it is aesthetic. I’m old enough to be in this group, for whom the salient question is: Why isn’t jazz as popular as it once was? There are many answers […]

Jazz singer René Marie performing at Appel Farm

By Kristie Rearick/Gloucester County Times Jazz singer René Marie played a trick on audience members at Appel Farm the last time she performed there. So this time around — Saturday at 8 p.m. — be prepared. It was the year Kevin Hamilton joined the group as its new pianist. No one had ever seen him […]

New DMC Release featuring Pauley P. Can I have your Attention Please!

Rock/Hip Hop Icon Darryl “DMC” McDaniels wants your “ATTENTION PLEASE!” Legendary Run-DMC co-founder teams with NCIS’ Pauley Perrette to bring “Attention Please!” to multiple causes with “double sided” digital single. (New York, NY: November 15, 2011) The much revered and respected, multi-platinum recording artist Darryl “DMC” McDaniels has released a “double sided” single, “Attention Please!” […]

Dionne Bromfield among the new hot young upcoming artists!

By MESFIN FEKADU – Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The kids are all right — at least in the music industry. Take Justin Bieber: He’s 17, has released three platinum efforts, earned Grammy nominations, released a top-selling movie and has sold out arenas around the world, putting him in the elite echelon of pop […]

What critics are saying about Open Door

MOLLY GILMORE; Contributing writer • Published October 07, 2011 Opening Doors: India.Arie, Idan Raichel remind people to let in the world’s influences The world has become a very small place, said Grammy-winning soul singer India.Arie, performing in Olympia this weekend with Israeli singer-songwriter-producer Idan Raichel. “There’s nothing you can do or say that’s separate from […]

Rene Marie: Invisible Strings of the Heart

An interview with the singer about her new album Black Lace Freudian Slip Rene Marie’s new album Black Lace Freudian Slip on Motema Records is a celebration of love, dance and a catharsis to the vicissitudes of life. In my recent interview with Rene Marie, we discuss those narratives that are metaphorically transparent, as well […]

Rebecca Pidgeon’s “Disintegration Man” Is a True Who Is It Song

Written By:Scott Mehno The last few years I’ve had the honor and pleasure of working with singer/songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon. She wrote a song with producer Larry Klein called “Disintegration Man,” for her upcoming album Slingshot, and the second I heard it — I told her it was what John Lennon used to call a “Who […]

Rene Marie – Black Lace Freudian Slip Tour

Saturday, November 12, 2011, 8:00 PM BlackRock Center for Arts in Germantown Marie layers her music with a spirited sophistication not unlike that of a fine wine. Perhaps that accounts for the Los Angeles Times observing that Marie has “the talent, the imagination and the sheer presence to be included in the very top level […]

René Marie shows us her Black Lace Freudian Slip US Tour begins October 14th

10/11/11: René Marie, the award winning jazz, soul and blues singer-songwriter whose voice has been compared by critics to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn and her social advocacy to Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln releases her new album Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motema Music) and begins a US tour this week. Black Lace Freudian Slip […]

Adidas Originals Superstar 80s – Run DMC “My adidas” 25th Anniversary

words // Brandon Richard In May of 1986, legendary hiphop group Run DMC paid tribute to their signature personal style with a single called “My adidas” off the album Raising Hell. The Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons produced record officially cemented what we now know as adidas Originals as staple footwear of the culture. Twenty-five […]