New York, NY (September 5, 2008) - One is a classic favorite, the other is the possible future of R&B (and funk/soul/interplanetary juke - whatever she calls it). Both were together for a show at Highline last week. The NY Times was there; read their review here. Check:

…Mr. Saadiq has a history of nostalgic revisionism, as a member of Tony! Toni! Toné! from the late 1980s through the mid-’90s, and more recently as a songwriter and producer. His fetching solo debut, in 2002, bore the title “Instant Vintage,” which sums up his golden ideal. But his new album - “The Way I See It,” due out on Columbia next month - pushes the retro angle more insistently. And Mr. Saadiq brought the same qualities to his show, an ostentatious throwback carried by hard-working charisma.

Ms. Monáe was true to that outlandish theme in performance, right down to the jerk-jointed dance moves. “Are you bold enough to reach for love?” she wailed in her second hyperkinetic song of the set, “Many Moons.” Elsewhere - on a D.J.-enhanced fanfare called “Sincerely, Jane” - she deftly connected future terrors to present-day ills.

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