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...exec thought they might be a firm of music lawyers. Pete Waterman, producer of Steps - the chart-topping pop puppets perceived as shoo-ins for the award - demanded an investigation. And so the bookish, reclusive Glasgow group with a notorious aversion to the press hit the front pages. scots band in brits fix scandal, raged the tabloid Sun. Of course, there was no fix. The band's intensely loyal - and Net-savvy - network of fans had mobilized their votes. Those fans have remained, but their ranks have never swelled as fast as their Brits success - and beguiling, intelligent pop output...
HOWL HOWL GAFF GAFF Telling everyone you're a sucker for love without being extremely irritating is a tough trick, yet this emotional Stockholm band finds a way to pull it off. Singer Adam Olenius has a gift for melodies and an earnestness that recalls the Cure's Robert Smith, but he's also got enough self-respect to know when he's on the verge of bathos and is smart enough to avoid it, as on the soaring Very Loud: "I wanna build buildings high for you/ But the costs, my God, the costs I can't afford...
...total revenues, and growing fast. And EMI's global market share rose from 12.5% to 13.1%. "EMI is one of the leaders" of the digital era, says Mike McGuire, research director at Gartner. "They're innovative." Yes, EMI benefited from big-selling albums by artists like the freestyle cartoon band Gorillaz and Coldplay (who nabbed the best album award for X&Y and best single for Speed of Sound at the Brit Awards in London last week). But the digital tide has hit - not only in the form of Apple Computer's iPod, but also through mobile-phone features, including...
...he’s serious. “If you must refer to us as ‘the Blanks.’ make sure that ‘the’ is in lowercase. We’re grammar Nazis.”Sheesh. Even the indie rock bands at this school are perfectionists.Hoping to make a splash on the national indie scene with a debut EP and a high-profile gig at The Middle East rock club, these four undergraduates can’t seem to make up their minds: one minute, they’re calling...
...parade, which headed for the Agassiz Theatre this year because of ongoing renovations at the Pudding’s 12 Holyoke St. home.The parade along Mass. Ave was not Berry’s usual red carpet crowd—her entourage included cows, llamas, Miss Massachusetts, the Harvard University Band, and the cast of the 158th production, “Some Like It Yacht.”“I was walking out of the Barker Center and I saw some drag queens, some cows grazing, and I was struck, so I decided to explore further...