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Kudos For Keep on Pushing in Pop Matters
“…Sullivan paints with condensed strokes, documenting in succinct sections how the music segued with powerful protest movements to smash disfranchisement and rouse sometimes fleeting victories, daring...
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Keep on Pushing Reviewed in July Print Edition of Under the Radar
“Reaching as well into the areas of punk rock, reggae, and finally hip-hop, Keep On Pushing admirably points out numerous key developments and connections throughout a vital, revolutionary element of...
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Vibration is…Positive for Keep on Pushing
“A pleasing survey of soul music, from Lead Belly to Johnny Otis to Michael Franti to Louis Farrakhan . . . Sullivan offers a welcome exploration of how African-American popular music became America’s...
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Goodbye Old Year, Happy New You
Among arts enthusiasts, there is the year-end tradition of list-making, that compulsive, hierarchical compiling of bests and worsts that at its most sinister and cynical is rooted in the marriage of...
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Hello Mumia, Goodbye Columbus
There is only one voice like Mumia Abu-Jamal’s, its tone perfect for professional broadcasting, and its message carrying necessary information for our times. But Abu-Jamal as most people know, is not...
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Cyndi Lauper: She’s Still So Unusual
Though I never owned She’s So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper in the ’80s (it was what we called “too commercial” for my taste), I was certainly happy to revisit it in its 30th anniversary vinyl edition, and...
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Memphis Minnie’s Blues
In what is perhaps the best-known story of a blues woman as legend, Big Bill Broonzy tells of the “cutting” contest he lost to Memphis Minnie following her 20-minute performance of “Me and My Chauffeur...
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Van Morrison: Songwriter
During San Francisco’s notoriously punishing, foggy summers, there are those who find it extremely necessary to leave city limits and seek sun. On most days, it can be found shining a few short miles...
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The Staple Singers: The Long March on Freedom’s Highway
In April of 1965, just weeks after the historic marches for voting rights across Alabama, the Staple Singers convened at a South Side Chicago church for a service dedicated to the marchers. The...
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Much More Than Just Music in Chrissie Hynde’s Memoir, Reckless
I think of Chrissie Hynde’s stunning “My City Was Gone” just about everyday as I stalk the streets of San Francisco, searching for meaning and life in a place I used to and sometimes still do call...
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