HERB ALPERT (AND THE TIJUANA BRASS) ![]()
Though Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 was basically piggy-backing onto the success of Herb Alpert, the co-founder of his label A&M Records, the Latin-lite sounds were better than nothing for a pop-music mainstream that, for too many years, had been just a little too white-bread, at least in retrospect. (August 2010) * * * Album labels are one way to help narrow down a search. If you are an R.E.M. fan, then most of the albums on their label, I.R.S. Records will probably be to your liking as well. A good punk rock label is Stiff Records; I have scarcely ever gone wrong with them. A&M Records, the king of American independent record labels, has a wide variety of offbeat acts and some major artists as well (the “A” in the name is Herb Alpert). (November 2012) |