Posts tagged "Jason Kay"

The Viewfinder:Jamiroquai’s “Lifeline”

I can’t remember being as excited for a Jamiroquai album as I am for their upcoming Rock Dust Light Star. Does this album even have a U.S. release date yet? Well, why not? It’s not like there’s so much stuff coming out right now that it would get buried, right? Hell, given the dearth of new releases and Jamiroquai’s lengthy absence from the music scene, releasing the album in the U.S. now might give them the highest chart ranking of […]

Hump Day Flashback: “When You Gonna Learn”

It was September 1993. I was working my first real job, at a short-lived Tower Records location on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Nirvana’s “In Utero” had come out maybe a week before, Mariah’s “Music Box” was riding high on the charts, and the store’s constant soundtrack came from a little known British soul band who wouldn’t achieve American success for nearly half a decade. Not too many people knew who Jamiroquai was around that time, but in our […]