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...Saturday, the Push Stars turn up, while Elastica (led by the inimitably cool Justine Frischmann, left), perhaps the best of the groups of the so-called Britpop invasion of the mid-'90s, will perform at Avalon. (Incidentally, the version of Trio's '80s hit "Da Da Da" that closes The Menace, Elastica's latest album, is pure genius...
Heralded by many in the early '90s as the underground heroes of the punk-melodic metal scene, Sunny Day Real Estate has endured a long and torturous history, complete with a bitter break-up in 1995, the subsequent departure of two band members for the Foo Fighters and the conversion of current frontman, Jeremy Enigk to Christianity. The band's 1998 reunion saw the return of William Goldsmith, whose bombastic drum playing rounds out Enigk's rugged vocals and Dan Hoerner's pulsating guitar work...
...late 80s and early 90s, figures were astronomical for youths being shot and killed," said Marci L. Feldman, assistant to Prothrow-Stith. By 1999, Feldman added, "Boston had gone three years without a child under 16 being involved in a gun death...
...pressure he felt came from a pent-up demand for digital music in the late '90s that was going largely unfilled. Before Napster, downloading music was so cumbersome it was mostly relegated to college students with access to fast pipes and techno geeks sufficiently driven to search the Net for the latest Phish bootlegs. The digital-music standard MP3, short for ISO-MPEG Audio Layer-3, was developed by German engineering firm Fraunhofer IIS back in 1987 as a way of compressing CD-quality sound files. The technology made it possible to take songs from...
...buybacks are increasingly concocted to offset the potential dilution of mega-stock-option grants, which exploded in number in the '90s. The strategy is especially prevalent among tech companies, including Dell, Adobe and Autodesk. But others, including Citigroup and Chiron, do it too. The idea is to buy back enough stock so that when executives and employees exercise options, the company can deliver the stock without printing more...