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...Radiohead's new CD, Kid A, out Oct. 3, arrives like Mark Antony delivering Caesar's funeral oration: it comes not to praise rock but to bury it. The songs defy convention and categorization: one track, The National Anthem, begins like a full-on rock number, with a throbbing bass guitar and aggressive percussion, before the tune bursts open and jazzy horns tumble out. This is an album about atmosphere and mood, not easy hooks and catchy choruses. Listening to Kid A is like hearing one's own heart--you feel every beat intimately. And you never want...
...touring difficulties. "I think the final straw for me," says drummer Justin Welch, "was when we had just finished Australia, and I arrived home at Heathrow airport with my sandals on and it was snowing outside. That's when I decided we needed a break." There were personnel problems. Bass player Annie Holland, whom Frischmann describes as "the most punk rock of the lot of us," quit the group during the Lollapalooza tour in '95. There were legal hassles. The publishers of the new-wave band Wire claimed the riff in Connection was lifted from Wire's late-'70s song...
...Elastica took a less-is-more approach to its music, making every bass and guitar line distinct. Now the band frequently sounds like six musicians crammed into a small apartment and competing to be heard. The result is a more insolent, perhaps an even more youthful sound. The Menace is the work of people who have gone a little stir crazy. In rock 'n' roll, that's a good thing...
...just making it up. Wyclef (he's primarily known by his first name) is sitting behind a drum kit on the sixth floor of the Hit Factory, a recording studio in Manhattan, tapping out a jazzy rhythm while his cousin and frequent producing partner Jerry Duplessis plays along on bass guitar. The pair, who are here to tape a rendition of the Police song Walking on the Moon for the pilot of an MTV series on musical influences, are indulging in an unscheduled jam. Wyclef, who with Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel ("Pras") Michel made up the Grammy-winning...
...well that he plans to open a second one. He's hoping to begin shooting music videos of his best acts. "You know the real problem with Vietnamese bands?" says Huy. "They don't smile. When an American band is onstage, everyone is smiling." Sure enough, the guitar, bass and keyboard players look as if they are waiting for a bus. Huy drains his Corona. "I have to teach them that...