Keith Harris lives and writes in Minneapolis, MN, the greatest city in the world. He’s reviewed music since 1996, writing for numerous magazines, newspapers and websites. He now blogs regularly at http://usefulnoise.wordpress.com, where he’s surveying the best singles of the ’00s, and tweets as @useful_noise.com, where he’s usually complaining about something or other.
Your first exposure to Youssou N'Dour's soaring tenor keen likely came on… more »
The soundtrack to a documentary that every N'Dour fan should seek out imm… more »
Reggae is the lingua franca of the African diaspora, so it was maybe inev… more »
Though less deliberately international in its ambitions than Egypt, Rokku… more »
In 2001, N'Dour traveled to Cairo to record an album of religious-themed … more »
The backup here is mostly acoustic — the kora (harp), the xalam (lu… more »
Following The Guide, N'Dour set aside his grand crossover ambitions and r… more »
Or, you know, not. N'Dour's first album recorded entirely in Senegal is a… more »
N'Dour's reliance on call-and-response, on vocal interjections echoed by … more »
Set is N'Dour's first great solo album for one simple reason: He figured … more »
With soundtrack producer and Peter Gabriel pal George Acogny behind the b… more »
Like Elvis's Sun Sessions or the earliest rap 12-inches, these 23 cuts do… more »
Laura Cantrell knows how to stay out of a song's way, and that willin… more »
Love is demanding, without understanding. Buoyant Swedes like these will … more »
Just how old are these hyperactive Welsh art schoolers anyway? Last year,… more »
On their sixth album, art-pop siblings Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger ar… more »
With even Balkan electronica now buzzworthy (and rightly so), it's co… more »
Tabu Ley Rochereau has long been hailed as the Congo's greatest moder… more »
Apparently there can never be enough post-punk in the world for Martin At… more »
Before his sons grew up to become the North Mississippi All-Stars, Jim Di… more »
Folk music has never been a fixed entity. It's a process, the means b… more »
There has never been any shortage of white British musicians whose fascin… more »
Drummer Tamir Muskat and hornman Ori Kaplan are charter members of the mu… more »
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