Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the unexpected benefits of the streaming era documentary boom is that no musical subject is too niche for a feature-length ...
The first British band to command the stage at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater wasn't the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. It was Cymande. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CHASING AN EMPTY DREAM") CYMANDE: (Singing) ...
The British group with Caribbean roots stopped performing in 1974. Its slow-rolling comeback is realized on Friday with a new album, “Renascence.” By Jim Farber In the late ’70s, when the star hip-hop ...
Cymande must be the most unappreciated London band of all time, and this is such an embarrassment I can hardly even type it. As told in last year’s excellent documentary, Getting It Back: The Story of ...
February 21, 2025 Zombies, vampires, the Phoenix bird—few bands use these as role models in formulating a career path. Actually, Cymande did not consciously decide to follow in their footsteps, but ...
They broke up in 1975, but their breaks kept returning to the charts in hits by De La Soul, the Fugees and many others. Now a new documentary is telling their remarkable story Some time in the late ...
One sweltering summer years ago, I set off on a month-long pilgrimage around the southern states of America, hoping to expand my musical horizons in proximity to the jazz and soul music I loved and, ...
"Getting It Back" is too focused on the legacy of Cymande to actually tell the band's story. The official story on Cymande (a Calypso word, pronounced sih-MAHN-day) is pretty brief. They formed amid ...
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Patrick Patterson and Steve Scipio of the British funk band Cymande about their new album and about reconstituting the band after decades. The first British band to ...
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