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Songs in the Key of Life: “Can’tneverdidnothin'”

by Zachary Stiegler on Aug 19, 2013 • 3 Comments

Part of me wants to launch into a discussion about the fact that Nikka Costa should have blown up much more than she did a decade ago, but that’s another discussion for another post. For this edition of Songs in the Key of Life, we have the title track from Nikka Costa’s 2005 album Can’tneverdidnothin’. The album is a notable followup to 2001’s Everybody Got Their Something – an easily digestible blend of funky rock/pop carried by Costa’s fantastic vocals. […]

The Singles Bar: Nikka Costa’s “Nylons in a Rip”

by MJ on Jul 14, 2011 • 4 Comments

music / New Releases / Pop Music / soul music / The Singles Bar

Nikka Costa’s always been hit-or-miss for me. She arrived on the American scene a decade ago with Everybody’s Got Their Something, an album I still bump to this day. However, two subsequent albums just haven’t hit their sweet spot. Actually, her second album, Can’tneverdidnothin’ provoked such a negative reaction out of me and my circle of music-lovin’ friends that my buddy P. Dizzle wrote a scathing passage in response to a review I wrote that was entitled “Nikka Ain’t My […]

Albums That Time Forgot: Van Hunt’s “On the Jungle Floor”

by MJ on May 4, 2011 • 9 Comments

music / soul music

It was a stroke of luck that led me to Van Hunt’s On the Jungle Floor album back in 2006. Well, maybe not so much luck, but I was unaware that the singer/songwriter had even released a second album when I saw it on the new release rack in my local Circuit City (R.I.P.). I wasn’t the biggest fan of Hunt’s self-titled debut (I actually remember being disappointed that it wasn’t better), but something told me to pick up Jungle […]