LIGHT TRAFFIC

Oh well, blame it on the reggae. It appears, my friends, I’ve been sleeping on all kinds of amazing new music. (New – just to be clear – meaning both “new to me” and “stale, verging on the moldy” to everybody else.) Who knew, for instance, I enjoyed Missy Elliot protégé Jazmine Sullivan so much? [...]

Last fall, Talib Kweli came to Montreal and performed a free, outdoors show at Concordia University. The length of Mackay Street, between Sherbrooke and de Maisonneuve, was blocked to traffic and filled with students and random hip-hop enthusiasts, dancing as a compact crowd and bopping heads. I think I fell in love with Talib Kweli [...]