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HUFFINGTON
03.02.14
Dog Ears
In which we spotlight music from a diversity of genres and
decades, lending an insider’s ear to what deserves to be heard.
BY THE EVERLASTING PHIL RAMONE AND DANIELLE EVIN
HOCKEY
Hockey is the Portland, Oregon-based
dance-rock outfit captained by singer
Ben Grubin and bassist Jeremy Reynolds (a.k.a. Jerm). Founded in 2007 in
college just outside of L.A., the band
did some finger-bleeding before relocating to the Pacific Northwest, where
they recruited drummer Anthony Stassi and guitarist Brian White, then selfproduced their full-length debut for
Capitol Records. Hockey issued their
follow-up album,Wyeth IS, in 2013.
Turn it up with “Curse This City,” from
Hockey’s 2009 release Mind Chaos.
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GENRE: Dance Rock
ARTIST: Hockey
SONG: Curse This City
ALBUM: Mind Chaos
THE
KEITE YOUNG
HARMONIZING FOUR
American Gospel quartet The Harmonizing Four was founded in Richmond, Virginia, at the close of the
Roaring ’20s by Thomas “Goat”
Johnson and Levi Handly. In 1943,
they cut their full-length debut and
went on to record a heap of sides
and grace tracks by Sister Rosetta
Tharpe. Over their eight-decade
tenure, the cast would include Joseph “Gospel Joe” Williams, Lonnie
Smith, Tommy Ellison, James Walker, Thomas Johnson, Jimmy Jones,
Vance Joyner, and Calvin Meekins.
Revisit The Harmonizing Four with
“Close to Thee,” from their inspired
1959 Gospel Music Anthology (Remastered) — sounds like a panorama
into someone else’s memory.
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GENRE: Gospel
ARTIST: The Harmonizing Four
SONG: Close to Thee
ALBUM: Gospel Music
Anthology (Remastered)
Fort Worth-based soul-stirrer Keite
Young was born in the late ’70s into
a professional musical family (Kirk
Franklin & The Family and Wayman
Tisdale). Before the age of 10, he
started writing songs, and by his late
teens, singing became a front foot
for Young. Credits include a shining
lead-vocal spot in the Kirk Franklin &
The Family’s track “Let My People Go”
for The Prince of Egypt soundtrack
(1998) and “Thinkuboutmi” for the
Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
soundtrack (2008). Download “My
Change,” from Young’s 2007 debut
The Rise and Fall of Keite Young.
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GENRE: Soul
ARTIST: Keite Young
SONG: My Change
ALBUM: The Rise and Fall
of Keite Young