Cleothus Hardcastle
Cleothus lives in Streatham Vale, south London, and writes widely on black music. For his sins he supports Crystal Palace FC.
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D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Kelis: D’Angelo: Voodoo/Erykah Badu: Mama’s Gun/Kelis: Kaleidoscope
Review by Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
SOMEHOW "SOUL" music lives on, clinging to life in the midst of the coldest, meanest materialism. Straight outta Brooklyn came two of the heirs to ...
Eminem, Outkast, Wu-Tang Clan: The Way They Are: Eminem and Friends
Review by Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
HIP HOP, you dont stop. Whatever it is that this hybrid of street poetics and processed beats represents for modern culture, it aint going away. ...
John Lee Hooker: Goodbye Boogie Man
Obituary by Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, 23 June 2001
"Woke up this morning..." ...
Leiber and Stoller: The Backpages Interview: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Interview by Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, 30 June 2001
The names Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are inseparable from the stories of rhythmnblues and rocknroll. They were two Jewish teenagers who felt black and ...
Howard Tate: The Unearthing of Howard Tate
Report by Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, 14 April 2001
"They had a thing in MOJO, like, Whatever happened to Howard Tate? Hes gotta be fuckin dead, man!"– David Johansen, talking to Rocks Backpages, January ...
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