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Aired: Friday, February 04, 2005 8-9PM ET
They started playing rhythms ranging as far afield as reggae and hip-hop in the city of all night parties, parades and marching bands. Now, the Soul Rebels have rolled it all together in a sound the Village Voice calls, "the missing link between Louis Armstrong and Public Enemy."
Their new album is the funk and jazz of New Orleans with a hip-hop zing that cannot hide the gumbo underneath and doesn't want to. When Mardi Gras hits New Orleans next week with Fat Tuesday, they'll be there, with their fusion of brass and scratch.
Tune in for a celebration of brass and drums, funk and hip-hop with the Soul Rebels.
| · | Lumar "Big Cheeky" LeBlanc and Derrick "Oops" Moss, founding members of the Soul Rebels. Their new album is "Rebelution." |
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Week in News Review |
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Among the major news of this past week:
1) President Bush pushes for Social Security reform during his State of the Union address.
2) Senate Minority leader Harry Reid pushes back during the Democrats' rebuttal.
3) Iraqis go to the polls to elect a transitional assembly that will draft a new Constitution.
4) Alberto Gonzales is confirmed as the nation's first Hispanic Attorney General.
5) Homeland Security Secretary-nominee Michael Chertoff receives relatively easy treatment during his confirmation hearings.
6) Condoleezza Rice makes her first overseas trip as Secretary of State, and says that an attack on Iran is not on the White House's agenda.
7) Marine Lieutenant General James Mattis comes under fire for saying it's "fun to shoot some people."
8) Pope John Paul II is hospitalized with the flu.
9) And an investigation headed up by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker finds plenty of blame to go around for the failure of the U.N.'s oil-for-food program.
Hear On Point news analyst Jack Beatty and host Tom Ashbrook analyze the major news of this past week.
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