Word: bandness
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...recent Saturday, 30 years to the day when Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in France, the Iranian government held a celebration in the massive shrine to Khomeini that is still under construction near the Tehran airport. The ceremony was a feel-good affair, with a marching band and schoolgirls in white chadors with pink butterfly wings. Speakers ranging from Khomeini's grandson to former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani celebrated the endurance of the world's only Islamic system of clerical and democratic rule. And each person who rose to the flower-strewn podium also used the occasion...
...Cramps' biggest album was 1980's Songs the Lord Taught Us, which, despite its underground popularity, proved that the Lord hadn't taught them much at all. But what the band lacked in musical skill it made up for with absurdist humor and attitude. Most of that emanated from gender-bent front man Lux Interior, who died on Feb. 4 in Glendale, Calif...
Interior, born Erick Lee Purkhiser, started the Cramps with his wife, guitarist Poison Ivy Rorschach, in 1976. From the beginning, they were more an act than a band, their fusion of surf music, punk and rockabilly (psychobilly, as it was known) sounding better in theory than in sloppy 3-min. bursts...
...that his competitors were "asleep at the switch," was an aggressive businessman and proud of it. He was so good at dominating the ticket industry (and consequently became practically the only game in town) that Pearl Jam rebelled in 1994 with a campaign known as "TicketBastard." The band wanted to offer summer tour tickets to fans for under $20 and asked Ticketmaster to charge less than $2 in service fees. Ticketmaster refused, Pearl Jam canceled its tour and took its case to Congress. Ticketmaster prevailed, but not before the band accused the company of sending private investigators to snoop around...
...deux-mètres," both for his imposing stature and the watchful eye he keeps over them. Just over a month ago, after Tricky had approached residents of the nearby Riquet housing project with a call for musicians, Ndiaye showed up at the studio followed by a wary band of nearly 20 friends. Tricky recalls the initial tension. "They were trying to suss me out," he says. "But once Amadou went on the mike, we were off and running...