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Fricke's Picks: Nik Batsch's Ronin
There were moments — long, magnetic spells, actually — during a recent set by Nik Bartsch's Ronin at Joe's Pub in New York when the Swiss instrumental qu... | More »March 27, 1:14 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Joseph Arthur
Joseph Arthur has Ryan Adams Syndrome: He can't stop making records. Since 2000, Arthur — an Ohio native first championed by Peter Gabriel in the mid-Nineties â... | More »March 26, 2:23 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Zen Tricksters
Dead Ahead Before there was a jam-band scene, there were the Zen Tricksters, a Grateful Dead-inspired New York band, founded in the mid-Eighties, whose grip on the Dea... | More »March 14, 11:30 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: The Garden of Forking Paths
String Theories The Garden of Forking Paths (Important) is a record of converging passions: an overview of the post-John Fahey improvising-folk renaissance through new... | More »March 13, 1:30 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Nigeria Special
African Diamonds The twenty-six rare and exciting singles and LP tracks on Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues (1970-6) (Soundway) were mad... | More »March 12, 2:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Black 47
The Fighting Irish Iraq (United for Opportunity), by the New York Celtic-rock band Black 47, is an unashamedly topical wallop of the early-Seventies Jersey-bar E Stree... | More »February 29, 2:03 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Samamidon
A Big Quiet All Is Well (Bedroom Community), by Sam Amidon — or Samamidon, as it says on the cover — is his deceptively ornate adaptation of ten traditional blues... | More »February 28, 12:04 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Horace Silver
Fine Silver In the Fifties and Sixties, pianist Horace Silver brought a Latin sway and cocksure funk to hard-bop jazz, first with the historic Jazz Messengers, then as... | More »February 27, 1:00 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Marco Benevento
Marco Benevento was barely into his first set at New York's Sullivan Hall on a recent night when, after hitting a few wandering notes on his piano, he punched a b... | More »February 26, 12:54 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: School of Seven Bells
Class Act Opening for Blonde Redhead and the Raveonettes at a recent New York show, School of Seven Bells, founded by ex-Secret Machines guitarist Ben Curtis and featu... | More »February 13, 3:05 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Steve Jansen
The Invisible Man In the Eighties British Zen-glam group Japan, drummer Steve Jansen (above, far left) was as important for what he chose not to play — he is practic... | More »February 12, 1:37 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Six Organs of Admittance
The Road to Nirvana In one school of Buddhist thought, the six organs of admittance — the five senses plus the soul — are, in perfect union, the way to enlightenme... | More »February 11, 4:40 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Man
The golden age of Man — the Welsh band founded in the late Sixties and still going — was 1971-74, the peak of the prog-rock stoners' spin on the double-helix ... | More »February 1, 1:07 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: The Monks
The silver lining around the passing on January 10th of banjo player Dave Day Havlicek of Sixties extreme-beat band the Monks (he died of heart failure at age sixty-si... | More »January 31, 11:55 AM ET| David Fricke
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