Tag Archives: Numero Group

So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star?

Today, here’s how the economics work. DigitalNewsDaily.com reports that Ken Shipley of the Numero Group worked out this breakdown of the payouts from the upcoming iCloud, which Shipley has opted out of: 70% of each $25 account is spread out over every “match” made for a year. 70% of $25 = $17.50 $17.50 on an [...]

Time in Two Minutes or Less

For those in their 40s, the flicker of nostalgia for the animated shorts collected in Celestial Navigations: The Short Films of Al Jarnow (Numero DVD) will pass quickly. Many of these first appeared on Sesame Street or other children’s programming from the 1970s-’80s, but films that were once engaging if a bit sober now seem [...]

Various Artists, A Light on the South Side (Numero Group)

I won’t say who thought this looked like a pretty interesting Chicago blues anthology, but it’s pretty obvious they were wrong. Despite its south side origins, this is only marginally blues. Several song titles date this one—“I’m a Streaker,” “Women’s Lib,” “California Girl”—just as much as the overuse of wah-wah pedals, fuzz tones and distorted [...]

Foolishness and Mayhem are Your Friends

On the Style Network’s Clean House, Niecey Nash routinely scolds families for their “foolishness and mayhem” – code for house clutter on such a high, pathological order that the families really belong on A&E’s Hoarders. Rare soul obsessives the Numero Group aren’t that bad, but on their home page, they admit: Numero has come to a [...]

The Final Solution, Brotherman Original Soundtrack (Numero Group)

The Numero Group’s latest piece of soul archaeology is this soundtrack for a blaxploitation movie that ran out of money before shooting started. Guitarist Carl Wolfolk was commissioned to record the soundtrack and he cut it with a Chicago vocal group, the Final Solution. The strength of the blaxploitation film (and by extension, its soundtrack) [...]