Word: bandness
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...industry. As delegates toured the Madrid exhibition hall, where beautiful Venezuelan girls in tight white suits handed out ballpoint pens, and men in business suits drank lemonade at the SaudiAramco "bar," a small crowd gathered at the Qatari booth, made up to look like a Bedouin tent. A band of thobe-clad Qatari musicians emerged, singing and dancing joyfully. The applause was desultory...
...home from Vietnam. He was proud of his service but said that in order to survive, he saw and did awful things he could never talk about. I don't know what the answer is, but posttraumatic stress disorder and depression have to be treated with more than a Band-Aid like Prozac. The Department of Veterans Affairs needs every dollar it gets to care for these brave warriors, and the public needs to know this will have to continue for years to come. RoseAnn Hassiepen-Hatfield, WHEATON...
...Restart," [June 16]). Tyrangiel calls the British foursome "annoying," "crib-safe" and rockers who "pound listeners into submission." Give me a break. As if to defend his distaste, Tyrangiel trots out an absurd, less-than-articulate statement from Chuck Klosterman ("Coldplay is absolutely the s - iest f - ing band I've ever heard in my entire f - ing life"), and a pompous statement from the New York Times's Jon Pareles, who calls Coldplay "insufferable." Not only is Coldplay anything but insufferable, but their previous album, X&Y, was one of the best pop-rock albums of the new millennium...
...course, they found a way). The traffic crashed his server in 10 minutes. Within the hour, someone from Rose's camp called. "He was pretty cool. He seemed to be kind of like a warning-shot thing," says Skwerl. An hour later, he got an e-mail from the band's lawyer. "I've gotten cease and desists before," he says. "I sent back a very professional e-mail saying it's down, sorry for any inconvenience, and tried to do damage control." After 14 years of waiting, the record-company execs were not planning to launch the album with...
...agents were waiting for Skwerl in his office lobby and then checked his computer, hoping to find his source. While that makes Skwerl a little uncomfortable and he feels a little sad that Rose, his favorite rock star, is probably angry with him, he still thinks he did the band a favor. Now people know that the album isn't just a myth, that it's coming soon and that people who've heard it are saying it's good. And other than some increased traffic on his blog, Skwerl didn't profit from his stunt. "There were posts...