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Also, be on the look-out for a sleek helmet; we're one athlete fatality away from a fashion explosion in headgear. For the ultra-cool, follow senior infielder Peter Albers' avant-garde style and skateboard to practice...
...album lives on and deserves to be heard. Simply put, it is the best rock release of the year so far. Like such cutting-edge performers as Beck, Tricky and Rage Against the Machine, Sublime draws confidently on the group's new CD from both alternative rock and avant-garde hip-hop, creating a sound that is sharp and soulful. The band also tosses reggae and ska (a faster, jerkier reggae precursor) into the sonic mix, resulting in songs that are hard to categorize and harder still to resist. While much of today's pop wallows in recycled schlock rock...
...show, produced by Don Mischer, performed by a cast of 5,500 and watched by 3 billion viewers worldwide, mixed Southern with Greek, pyrotechnics with Pindar, avant-garde with antebellum, pickup trucks with riverboats, the gargantuan with the precious. Like Atlanta, it desperately wanted to be liked by everybody, and it succeeded. The Call to the Nations, which opened the show, recalled both the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, which was a creative consultant, as well as a Brazilian samba school. Yet the two songs were written by two distinctly American composers: Summon the Heroes by Academy Award winner John...
...Beginning, to the folk-punk punch of Ani DiFranco. In his Unplugged set, the musically eclectic Seal (according to him, his favorite albums right now include Stereolab's involving art-pop CD, Emperor Tomato Ketchup; D*Note's politically aware dance album, Criminal Justice; and Henryk Gorecki's avant-garde classical CD, Symphony No. 3) managed to draw from disparate strains of pop and weave them into a single folksy tapestry, performing a bluesy cover of Jimi Hendrix's Stone Free as well as a folk- soul rendering of his own hit Prayer for the Dying...
...similar neo-soul movement seems to be making a splash. The Haitian-American hip-hop group the Fugees scored a hit with its gritty remake of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly. The Brooklyn-based R.-and-B. duo Groove Theory, whose songs combine pure pop appeal with slightly avant-garde musical touches, received heavy airplay for its smash single Tell Me and has a new song, Keep Tryin', on the charts. Singer D'Angelo draws fans with music that adds a laid-back '90s twist to the sound of '70s soul. And a multi-act tour is being planned...