No-No Boy - 1975No No Boy is the musical project of Vietnamese American singer and scholar Julian Saporiti. On his Smithsonian Folkways debut 1975, named after the year Saigon fell, Saporiti investigates his own family heritage as well as life in WWII Japanese internment camps, immigrant detention centers and refugee camps in 2020, and other stories of immigration that illustrate the complexities of becoming American. His songs are the epitome of folk storytelling in

Kendrick Scott

originally inserted between the acts of serious operas

Becoming one of Britain's most influential and adored guitar bands

which places the sacred text at the heart of a sumptuous musical performance

Immediately valued as references

outside of the music industry

Maybe it's because the aggressive

the disc will come housed alongside a 16-page booklet packed with lyrics

Josh Freese (drummer

Twisted and distorted sound full of heavenly emotions

this new record's upbeat moments twist from the rolling groove of Tell The Truth to the dirtied-up funk of P

But these myriad accomplishments may have just been the setup for what is arguably his finest work to date