Falling James

Deborah Harry at Henry Fonda Theater “Blondie is a group,” the ad slogans announced a bit defensively after the pop-rock band emerged from the CBGB scene in the mid-’70s. The statement emphasized that the singer’s name wasn’t Blondie and that she was backed by a legitimate band of equals. But......

{mosimage}Friday, November 30Jimmy Scott at the EchoplexJust when it seemed as if he might never again pay a call to our foul city, Jimmy Scott — the peerless, drastically idiosyncratic jazz/R&B stylist who has mesmerized an avid cult of followers since 1949 — turns up to dispense his complex musical......

“I don’t wanna go down to the basement/There’s something down there.” —The Ramones It was just a stripped-down basement under the Pussycat Theater in an alley...

{mosimage}THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars at Malibu InnThe Refugee All Stars’ story is so fantastic that it sometimes threatens to take attention away from the African band’s equally magical music. The musicians started playing together in a refugee camp in Guinea after escaping the civil war in......

{mosimage} Time means nothing to Manu Chao, who’s become a superstar in much of the world and increasingly popular here by doing things in the least traditional way possible. “Time don’t fool me no more/I throw my watch to the floor,” he sang in “Out of Time Man,” a song......