From 1948 until 1966, the Palladium Ballroom, at the corner of 53rd and Broadway, was the city’s Mecca for Afro-Caribbean dance music. And for a lot of that time, Tito Puente was one of the main attractions. A new box set compiles the Latin music legend’s RCA recordings of this crucial period.
Photo: Tito Puente on vibraphone at the Palladium.
Tito Puente FTW
CocoRosie - Gravediggress
It’s been a few years since we last saw a CocoRosie release; thankfully this drought will end in May, and here is the first single. Typically quirky, I put them in the category of artists that do precisely what the fuck they want, almost everytime.
That being said, this is a perfect pop song.
This is great.
Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they’re born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mocking birds aren’t content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. Innovative, willful, daring, not bound by the rules to which others may blindly adhere, the mockingbird collects snatches of birdsong from this tree and that field, appropriates them, places them in new and unexpected contexts, recreates the world from the world. For example, a mockingbird in South Carolina was heard to blend the songs of thirty-two different kinds of birds into a ten-minute performance, a virtuoso display that serve no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.
this movie.
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basically.
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amazing.
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9000 terrified Syrians fled into Turkey in one single day.
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word.
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1901
Love is a good thing
Love is a great thing
but
Love isn’t the only thing.
