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‘The Harder They Come’ Off Broadway Review: How to Cut Jimmy Cliff Down to Size
Suzan-Lori Parks radically bowdlerizes the classic movie for the musical stage
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‘The Harder They Come’: Inside the Stage Musical Adaptation of the Movie That Introduced Reggae to the?World
The play is currently in previews at The Public Theater in New York City, opening March 15.
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The 22 Best Albums of 2022
If nothing else, 2022 was a wild one. We started the year with a surprise release by a major artist (The Weeknd’s Dawn FM) and bookended it with another album that was years in the making (SZA’s SOS). Everything in between wasn’t too shabby, either. There were thrills, disappointments, and mediocrity. We’re cutting through the … The 22 Best Albums of 2022 Read More ? The post The 22 Best Albums of 2022 appeared first on SPIN.
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‘The Harder They Come’ Was a Hero’s Journey Set to Reggae. It’s About to Become a New Musical
On its 50th anniversary, the groundbreaking 1972 film starring Jimmy Cliff is being adapted for the stage by the creatives behind musicals about Ray Charles and the Temptations
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Gavin DeGraw on Writing a Tribute to His Late Parents with Face the River
Gavin DeGraw takes a deep dive into his inner storyteller with Face The River Gavin DeGraw on Writing a Tribute to His Late Parents with Face the River Consequence Staff
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Island Records Founder Chris Blackwell to Release Memoir
Island Records founder Chris Blackwell will release a memoir on June 7 via Gallery Books. “The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond,” co-written with Paul Morley, will tell the life story of the man whose musical intuition led to the international embrace of reggae and of the iconic singer and songwriter Bob Marley. Blackwell […]
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Paul Simon Tribute Draws Oprah Winfrey, Garth Brooks, Jonas Brothers, Eric Church, Dustin Hoffman and More
What were the odds that the Recording Academy would honor the woman that many consider the greatest living female songwriter, Joni Mitchell, and great living male songwriter, Paul Simon, within a week’s time of one another? And yet that’s what happened as last Friday’s pre-Grammys MusiCares tribute to Mitchell in Las Vegas was followed Wednesday […]
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50 years later, 'The Harder They Come' remains a touchstone moment for Jamaica and reggae
1972's "The Harder They Come" shook up the world visually and sonically. A half-century later, the film endures as a snapshot of Jamaican life.
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Van Toffler on Why the Indies Will Survive (Guest Blog)
Consolidation is built into the nature of corporations. If some little upstart is eating into your market, it is easy enough to buy the upstart and add its market share to your own. Capitalism is a lot like Darwinism — put a little fish in the path of a big fish, and the big fish is compelled by its nature to eat it. But even as little fish are absorbed into big fish, more little fish are being born. There was a time in contemporary music when there were dozens of iconic record labels, each of w
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'I Can See Clearly Now' singer Johnny Nash dies at 80
Nash made his major music debut in 1957 with the single, "A Teenager Sings the Blues."
