| Quick Spins: Kid Rock's 'Rebel Soul' Nov 26th 2012, 22:40 Who would have thought that out of the late '90s freshman rap-rock class it would be Kid Rock who survived? Who thrived, even, without overdosing, fading into obscurity or morphing into Ted Nugent? "Rebel Soul," Rock's ninth album, completes his impressive transition from immature, pimped-out bullgod to slightly less immature pimped-out bullgod. It's a Southern rock-flavored red-state party album that does exactly what it's supposed to do: convey its cargo of redneck anthems, heavy jams, Memphis soul homages and a vanishingly small number of rap-rock bangers with sincerity and skill. Read full article >>   |  | Alicia Keys's 'Girl on Fire': Album review Nov 26th 2012, 22:34 "Girl on Fire" isn't only the title track to Alicia Keys's best album in years: It's the best Keys song to ever sample Billy Squier (the song nests inside a drum sample from his oldie "The Big Beat") while shamelessly borrowing its title from "The Hunger Games" and also featuring a guest rap from Nicki Minaj. Read full article >>   | | In children's theaters, colorful figures from America's past Nov 26th 2012, 22:16 Plucky pioneers, medicine-show hucksters, a Union Army balloonist and other colorful figures from America's past are bustling through two local children's productions. Over in Glen Echo, Adventure Theatre MTC is presenting "A Little House Christmas," a pint-sized entertainment based on the beloved books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Meanwhile, the Kennedy Center's Family Theater houses the world premiere of "The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg," a tall tale set during the Civil War. All in all, it's enough sepia-toned Americana to make the hippest Washingtonian say, "I'll be jiggered!" Read full article >>   | | Lobi Traore's 'Bwati Kono, Vol. 1': Album review Nov 26th 2012, 21:09 Before his death two years ago of heart failure at age 49, the Malian singer and electric guitarist Lobi Traore released a series of albums that captured his mesmerizing improvisational blues in the studio. But it's only with the appearance of "Bwati Kono, Vol. 1," a compilation of six polyrhythmic performances recorded at club shows in Mali's capital city of Bamako, that evidence of his incendiary playing is available to those who never witnessed it firsthand. Read full article >>   | | 'Homeland' episode 2.9: 'Two Hats' Nov 26th 2012, 17:36 As Carrie tracks Brody, Ned Martel will be tracking their every move in weekly recaps of Showtime's Emmy Award-winning series "Homeland." Check back each Monday morning to join the conversation on one of TV's best nailbiters. Read full article >>   | |
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