Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their favorite hangout, you may find yourself sitting next to Burr Hatfield. For another, the folks down here routinely make jokey references to the infamous dispute as if it had happened yesterday. But all family violence is not alike. And what most infuriates Marcella Kay Weekley's advocates--the band of lawyers, friends and relatives battling to get her out of jail--is when people describe what happened between Jackie and Kay Weekley as nothing more than some petty family feud...
Sometimes a record label's attention span is even shorter than the public's, which means that even promising bands don't have a chance to develop followings. "A major label will sign an alternative-rock band and put in six months of invested time," says Wendy Powell, assistant to the senior vice president of retail sales at Tower Records. "Then, if they are not making superstar sales, they stop pushing them, and they become a write...
...other hand, some musicians have nothing but their own bad luck, or bad attitudes, to blame for their commercial missteps. Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and Nirvana did not mount much of a publicity campaign or tour to support their new albums because, in the case of Pearl Jam, the band has become too haughty to do interviews and is involved in a long-running feud with Ticketmaster; in the case of R.E.M., the band was plagued with health-related problems and decided to skip a major tour; and in the case of Nirvana, the record--a live album--was released...
...music news is dire. While Hootie and the Blowfish's current album, Fairweather Johnson, has not sold as well as the affable Southern band's debut, it has moved a hefty 2 million copies, which is more than one would expect a band with the word Hootie in its name would ever sell. And while homegrown talents struggle, two of the best-selling performers in the U.S. this year turned out to be Canadian--Alanis Morissette, a wishy-washy pop singer turned vengeful rocker, and Celine Dion, a wishy-washy pop singer who has become an internationally best-selling wishy...
Alternative rock's leading lights shouldn't be written off--R.E.M. and Hootie probably both have more than a few big, interesting albums left in them. It's worth remembering too that the music business is cyclic. Every few years critics proclaim that rock is dead, and then a band like Nirvana--or the Sex Pistols before them--comes around and changes everything. Now the hunt is definitely on for the next Next Big Thing. Ska is a candidate, with groups like No Doubt racking up sales. Trip-hop is another contender, with performers such as Tricky and Portishead. There...