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...concert worth mentioning: impossibly catchy campus rock band Invisible Downtown (whose lead singer Jen is pictured to the right) are performing next Wednesday (Dec. 13) at T.T. The Bear's, which is a great venue. If you need directions, the band's organizing an "escort"-meet at Out of Town News at 10p.m. Those wanting to hear their songs first, check...
...SINEAD O'CONNOR, FAITH AND COURAGE: This time around, the defiant Irish singer delivers not a sermon of fire but a psalm of forgiveness. Her pop songs bear weighty spiritual messages about loving one?s self, but they carry themselves lightly, as if lifted by seraphim's wings...
...SADE, LOVERS ROCK: The soulful singer returns with a solemn CD that was worth the eight-year wait. These elegant songs explore heartbreak, yes, but racism as well. On each cut, Sade's lovely, melancholy voice blossoms like a blue bruise...
...SARAH HARMER, YOU WERE HERE: Harmer, a Canadian singer-songwriter, has a voice with some of the sublime charm of Dido's and writes erudite but colloquial lyrics that evoke the folksy smarts of the Indigo Girls. This is the year's best debut, with honorable mention going to Nelly Furtado's blithe "Whoa, Nelly...
...corner of Stevie Wonder Street and Hip-Hop Avenue, just a few short blocks from Billie Holiday Boulevard, stands the music of singer-songwriter Erykah Badu. She's not in a real place, of course, but in a bit of musical territory she has imagined into being. With a towering headwrap that's both vaguely African and vaguely Dr. Seussian, her slender form decked out in earth-goddess colors, she looks like nobody else in popular music. Her voice cutting like a subtle blade, her beats pumping like block parties, she mixes myriad influences in her work, but winds...