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2011 Stories by Rick Mason

• Nellie McKay

  published January 19, 2011

  With her sweet, gossamer voice, vivacious smile, blond curls, and affection for Doris Day, Nellie McKay would seem to be the epitome of the ditzy,... More >>

• School of Seven Bells

  published January 19, 2011

  School of Seven Bells achieve an exquisite balance of icy grandeur and sunny pop melodies on their second album, Disconnect from Desire.... More >>

• Ms. Lauryn Hill

  published January 12, 2011

  Notoriously reclusive for most of the dozen years since the release of her multiple-Grammy winning blockbuster The Miseducation of Lauryn... More >>

• Burkina Electric

  published January 12, 2011

  With members strewn from Ouagadougou to Düsseldorf to Brooklyn, Burkina Electric spans cultures and genres while fusing contemporary... More >>

• Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

  published January 12, 2011

  Pushing up the mercury with a feverish series of provocative cries, blues-textured moans, and high-octane howls, Grace Potter and her... More >>

• Stanley Jordan

  published January 5, 2011

  Guitarist Stanley Jordan burst onto the jazz scene with a flourish in the mid-1980s, sporting an innovative technique dubbed tapping, in which... More >>

• Rana Santacruz

  published January 5, 2011

  Mexico City native Rana Santacruz led a rock band there until around 2000. Subsequently relocating to Brooklyn, he began absorbing and sorting... More >>