Category: Music

Choclair, better known asKareem Blake released the single “21 Years” and was rewarded with a Juno for his efforts. The following year, he walked away with another Juno for Northern Touch. Choclair has come a long way from freestyling at house Parties in the mid-eighties as a teen. Choclair which means “light as air” performed…

Cha Cha is poised to break the hip-hop game wide open with Dear Diary, her innovative NoontimeEpic debut album. With the lead single, “New Millennium (What Cha Wanna Do)”, rising rap star Cha Cha has already made an impact on critics, peers and fans alike. Born Paris Ly-nell Fluellen, the multi-talented Detroit bred, Atlanta based…

Many musicians possess elements of genius, but only one — the great Ray Charles — so completely embodies the term that it’s been bestowed upon him as a nickname. Charles displayed his genius by combining elements of gospel and blues into a fervid, exuberant style that would come to be known as soul music. While…

“The moral of the story is ‘You can never have too much too late’,” Tim Burgess sings on “Wake Up”, one of the many soul-saving songs on Wonderland, the new full-length album from The Charlatans UK. The sentiment fits, for the Charlatans have taken the wisdom of experience to make Wonderland-the seventh album of their…

Tracy Chapman is one of the most socially relevant songwriters of our time, and has become one of our generation’s most unique voices. Since 1988, when she first burst onto the scene with her stirring arrangements and powerful wordplay, the music world has reserved a special place for each and every Chapman release. Whether it…

Keshia Chante has been stomping through the underdeveloped Canadian urban music landscape since the delicate age of 6. She first started as a performer when she launched her career at a talent show for Black History Month at a local university in her native Ottawa. The granddaughter of a well known Portuguese songwriter, Keshia is…

By the time her debut album, The Captain, was finally released in America last fall, Kasey Chambers was already a veritable superstar in her native Australia. Back home, The Captain was a double-Platinum, Top 10 album that paved Kasey’s way to an armload of industry awards, including two ARIA’s (Australian GRAMMYs): Best Country Album in…

There are a million stories in the ghetto. And yet there’s only one “Ghetto Story.” And like the song says, it’s a survival story. In Jamaica’s ultra-competitive music scene, stars are born every day and fade away just as fast. But ever since the mid 1990s, Baby Cham has represented the best of cutting-edge dancehall…

Take a moment and think about everything you associate with JC Chasez — another Mickey Mouse Club superstar spawn, charismatic singer-songwriter-dancer in the multi-platinum *NSYNC, and boy-band heartthrob to girls the world over (to name but a few). Now purge your mind of all of it. Erase. Delete. Introducing the aptly-titled Schizophrenic, an age-appropriate and…

American Recordings artist Johnny Cash–whose signature baritone, stark musicianship, and rebellious yet dignified attitude has created one of the most durable and profoundly influential bodies of work in American music–has spent much of this year back in the studio recording Solitary Man, a brand-new collection of songs, including tunes newly-penned by the artist as well…