Deborah Sengupta grew up in a cornfield in northwest Ohio where her multicultural family was something of a curious anomaly. She didn't like it very much. On a whim, she landed in Austin in 1995, where, before coming to Austin360.com in 2004, she drove a limo, played bass in a band, promoted fabulous parties and answered a whole lot of phones.
In 2000, she began building Web sites about Austin's urban music scene and became so insistent that Austin hip-hop shouldn't be ignored that KOOP radio gave her a show to prove it. In a country town with a heart full of rock 'n' roll, she firmly believes it also has a funky underbelly that's almost urban.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
By Deborah Sengupta
| Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 04:44 PM
I dropped in on my good friend D Madness last Friday at Maggie Mae’s where I caught a set by the recently reorganized local reggae powerhouse Tribal Nation. I like the new lineup a lot. D Madness is now on drums instead of bass, the grooves still skank and the vocal harmonies remain tight. But it was the horns that really blew me away (terrible pun not intended). The new Tribal Nation lineup sports a bottom-heavy horn section featuring a trombone, baritone and tenor saxes and a trumpet. Those low horns come at you like a freight train, and the band exploits this quality to the fullest. The reggae segue into the “James Bond” theme was particularly fun.
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